[Claud]

He is spoken of as being either here or there or somewhere but not in several places at once, i.e., he has a particular location at a particular time and so the Scriptures describe him. So he is one or the other but not divided amongst numerous places and meals.

He is holding a piece of bread at the Last Supper and He says "This is my body". Is. Not represents, not symbolizes, but is.

Therefore you have Jesus still in his body, holding his body in his hands.

Plus, also let's not forget the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes in this context. Whatever the Eucharist is, it is a *miracle*, so trying to put into this nice little box of human spatial conception is not necessarily the best idea.

[count-your-change]

“He is holding a piece of bread at the Last Supper and He says “This is my body”. Is. Not represents, not symbolizes, but is.

Therefore you have Jesus still in his body, holding his body in his hands.”

Represents, figurative. Long before Jesus had said,

“I am the bread of life” (John 6:35,48). But he wasn't made of flour and water and baked in an oven.

“I am the true vine”. (John 15:1) Neither was he a plant despite seeming to say so to the rigidly, literalistic mind.

One wrong idea produces another, that the bread and wine retained all the characteristics of bread and wine until....well who knows.....did the wine have a funny taste or the bread become a bit chewy?

“Plus, also let's not forget the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes in this context.”

Let's not forget the fish remained fish and the bread remained bread, one didn't turn into the other or anything else.

“Whatever the Eucharist is, it is a *miracle*, so trying to put into this nice little box of human spatial conception is not necessarily the best idea.”

Since the Bible was written for humans their spatial conceptions are important for understanding it.