But if he meant physically, he didn't provide a way for us to do that...When the unbelieving followers of his left him they knew there was no way anyone could literally eat his body and drink his blood...But what they didn't get was the spiritual application as Jesus well noted...Just as the Catholics don't get the spiritual application...
Those followers thought Jesus was a little wacko...Catholics on the other hand took another approach...They invented a remarkable story that has no basis in scripture and convinced people that they were under life long bondage to that religion by telling them their babies would go to hell if they died unless they were baptized into the Catholic religion at birth...
And of course when this crazy story was conceived, the rank and file were not allowed to see the scripture for themselves to know they were being lied to...
But hey, God told people to eat a lot of things...
Rev 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
Jer 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Psa 19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Psa 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Eze 3:1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
Eze 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
Eze 3:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Why didn't your Church invent scenarios where these things could be eaten as well???
Jesus told us that if you don’t eat His Body and Blood, then there is no life in you.
Your comment: “But if he meant physically, he didn’t provide a way for us to do that.”
Jesus provided His Body and Blood in the Eucharist at the Last Supper and through His Catholic Church. Perhaps you are familiar with Jesus meeting two men on the road yo Emmaus where he shared a meal which reflects the Eucharistic liturgy, where Jesus gives himself to the church in word and sacrament in the breaking of the bread. Luke 24:30
The protestants can’t accept this key teaching of Jesus just like the Jews rejected it. They can’t provide the Real Presence of Christ because they rejected Christ’s Catholic Church.
Why do you follow the lies of man and Satan?
You continue to make outrageous lies about the Catholic faith. You should be aware of Sins against the Holy Spirit. They are mortal sins that harden a soul by its rejection of the Holy Spirit. Six sins are in this category. They are despair, presumption, envy, obstinacy in sin, final impenitence, and deliberate resistance to the known truth.