More assertions of what you can only wish was what the NT church believed as shown in the supreme standard as the only wholly God-inspired and faithful substantive record of what the NT church believed. Which was not that of the Cath Eucharist. In which nowhere is the Cath Eucharist said to be spiritual food, but instead it is faith in the word of God but which souls obtain spiritual life, (Acts 10:43; 15:7-9; Eph. 1:13) and it is the word that is called both "milk" (1Cor. 3:2; 1Pt. 1:22) and "meat" (Heb. 5:12,14) whereby the recipients are nourished (1 Tim. 4:6) and built up. (Acts 20:32)
Thus showing that "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing [as food]: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63) For "As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me" (John 6:57) and thus the Lord Jesus said man is to live by every word, (Mt. 4:4) and thus His "meat" was to do the will of the Father, (Jn. 4:24) not eat His body.
(Not EAT Him!!)