This makes no sense. If it were not Jesus' blood, Scripture wouldn't portray Him saying that it was. He says it over and over --- He doubles down on the point, even after his listeners have started to vehemently object --- in John 6.
The Jews considered that the Life was in the blood, and they abstained from eating blood because of God's command, not because it was too disgusting, but because it was too sacred.
This is how God prepared them for the astounding gift of the Eucharist: now, the unimaginable is true! You receive God's life because now that's what He wants to give you--- you receive His life-blood! Something you could not have imagined in a million years! And as St. Paul tells us in 1 Cor 11,
"Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the Body and Blood of the Lord.[Not: "will have to answer for a symbolic offense. Not: "will have to answer for misusing a metaphor".] A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the Body, eats and drinks judgment on himself."
Obviously one who remains unbelieving and says "It's just bread, only bread," you are not discerning the Body.
I don't think we should fight and argue any more about this. We would just be lobbing charges of blasphemy, sacrilege, unbelief, desecration and heresy against each other, and you know as well as I do that it would yield no resolution, but only result in anger and frustration.
As Paul wrote to Titus, (Titus 3:9), "Avoid foolish arguments, genealogies, rivalries, and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and futile."
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, take heed!
Sorry friend ......God placed the jewish law into effect that blood was not to be consumed.. Jesus had to keep the WHOLE law perfectly if He was to be the spotless Lamb ...which meant He would not violate that law or encourage others to do so...
Did the apostles eat the real actual flesh of Christ at the last supper? Did they drink His actual blood?? Did He ??
Jesus called the cup * the fruit of the vine* acknowledging that it was wine in the cup and that he was using a metaphor by calling it blood.
Since otherwise forcing His disciples to drink blood or tricking them into it, would have violated the Law that He Himself handed down at Mt. Sinai.
Oh you foolish Galatians ...