The scene in John 6, where Jesus reveals that spiritual things are as real as the fingernails on your hand, and He extends this TRUTH to tell a gaggle of seekers after signs and wonders that unless they are dealing with what He, God with us, will sacrifice for us and for our salvation they have no life in them. Jesus even punctuated the lesson by telling the faithful that eating the flesh profits nothing because it is the Spirit that gives LIFE. Yet a nother gaggle takes the astonishing lesson and instead of rejecting the TRUTH by citing the law as their excuse the way the seekers after signs did, this gaggle ignores the law in order to take the lesson too literally, defying all that the rest of Scripture teaches and establishing a pagan ritual methodology to fabricate a substitute for the spiritual, as if literal eating of GOD will get His life in them via a priestly magic act!
My question would be, if this "eating God" thing is supposed to give them life, why do they do it so many times? Does it wear off again, so it no longer gives life? How long does it last? If it wears off, and the person dies, where will they go? Inquiring minds want to know.