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Not sure what you are getting at Christ fulfills the Passover but they are 2 different things, one a mere shadow of the other. If the Jewish passover could really save there would have been no need for Christ

I don’t know why it is so difficult to believe Christ can be truly present in His Supper, particuoarly leaving out all he other man added stuff like worshipping the elements and the idea that there is a resacrifice of Christ every time communion is offered

I am not a Greek scholar but I understand from those that are that there is a special emphasis on the “is” in the words of institution Also if communion is a strictly symbolic act why in the book of Acts do we find some early believers were struck dead for misusing the sacrement?

I don’t get heartburn over whether others believe Christ is really present as He says I don’t think it is a salvation issue (other than the blasphemous add ons in the Catholic mass), but I do think there is blessing to be missed out on if one doesn’t believe what Christ says about His Supper and there are many Protestants that believe as I do

Communion is symbolic in the flesh and spiritual in the belief. Asserting that the literal body and blood are ingested in the communion focuses on the carnal. Many times in the Bible we hear Jesus using a carnal ‘inference’ to illustrate a spiritual reality. A quick search of His use of ‘verily verily’ can help. The followers that turn away after His reference to eating His flesh and drinking His blood some assume were turning away because they would not countenance cannibalism. In that they were partially right. Sadly, they did not make the transfer to the metaphorical inference used to illustrate a spiritual reality. Taking it back to just the carnal application and thereby violating a command of God to ALL THEIR GENERATIONS, the sacred is made sacrilege. Truly, doing the communion in Remembrance of His Crucifixion and death for us, we bring the physical act of ingesting bread to the spiritual reality of taking His Life into us. Reading the scene in Luke, a very different set of conclusion from cannibalizing emerges.

Jesus said that where two or more are gathered in His name, there is He in the midst of them. You and I have no doubt witnesses what this can cause to come to pass in His name, the blessings, healings, answers to sincere prayers. But to presume Jesus would be in our midst to have us violate the commandment of God TO ALL THEIR GENERATIONS implicates that god of that moment to be of a duplicitous mind. God is not double-minded.

Since God knows the end from the beginning, He need not EVER violate any commandment He issues FOR ALL THEIR GENERATIONS. He simple makes no commandments that He will eventually violate or contradict in the future.