Replies

Satan already deprived the Protestants of the Eucharist 400 years ago, just as Satan did for many disciples of Jesus (Jn 6:66) 2000 years ago.

Bro, you're post is so wrong on so many levels.

I can see your seminary training did not equip you to handle the Scriptures. You may can recite the Mass in Latin, but you cannot handle the Scriptures.

Read John 6:66 in context.

*****

60Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?”

61But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

62“What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

63“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

64“But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

65And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”

66As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.

67So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?”

68Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.

69“We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.”

John 6:66-69 NASB

But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

What he DIDN'T say:

"Wow, don't sweat it, I was only using a figure of speech"
"Look, I just said that ridiculous stuff about eating my body and drinking my blood so that those jokers who claimed to be my followers would go away. I really just meant y'all should believe in me."
"I know, I know -- you're shocked and disgusted by this "eat my body and drink my blood" stuff. People are going to be confused about what I just said for the next 1500 years, until a German and a Frenchman and a Swiss dude come along to set them straight. What do you expect? I'm only God; I can't get everything right."

John 6:63 does not mean the "flesh of Jesus profits nothing". If it did, it would mean the death of Jesus' flesh on the Cross profits nothing. If you believe that, you aren't a Christian at all.

If the Eucharist is only a symbol as most protestants believe, and by now most Catholics who have lost their faith, why did Jesus let these disciple go away. In fact Jesus was even willing to lose all of his Apostles so as to remain faithful to the divine truth that does not change and does not come from the wisdom of man, as you quoted: “So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?” (Jn 6:67).
The great majority of Catholic priests and bishops today are now doing as most Protestant pastors have done all along, to preach according to what the people want to hear, human respect before the truth. Very few pastors in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21) when the Body of Christ, the Church, will be crucified (CCC 675-677), will be willing to follow Christ all the way to be humiliated and crucified by not compromising with the Truth of God, not the truth of the world.