Read John 6 again, pray more, read John 6 again.
“Do this in memory of me”
Duh
Look to pre-Christian temple sacrifice practices and feasts and you might get some context that will help.
From the Master’s mouth! John 6:53 “Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.”
Sounds like a good question to ask your priest.
NEXT.
It’s symbolic and not literal. And it’s not required for salvation. That couldn’t be more clear.
Jesus’s consciousness is real and it is here now. John 14 explains that if you are in Jesus, ( which is what communion is all about) the Our Father that is in Jesus is also in us.
We are consciousness, souls or spirits.
Another issue (or set of issues) is found in the aborted sacrifice of Isaac, wherein God rejects human sacrifice.
Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with communion or any other act one can perform. It's a gift and all you have to do is sincerely ask for it.
Communion is simply a way of remembering the sacrifice made by Jesus when he was crucified.
Jesus’ disciples found Jesus’ teaching hard to accept in Jn. 6.60:
Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard (this), said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
And in v63, Jesus said:
It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.
Didn’t he make it clear that he wasn’t speaking of eating his literal flesh? The flesh profiteth nothing!
‘I am a very logical person’
Faith is belief outside of logic & reason.
For me it goes back to the peace offerings as prescribed in Liviticus. In the peace offering the family took part in eating the sacrifice, thus establishing there peace with God. This is the same thing.
As for drinking his blood, this goes back to the pagan practive of drinking the blood of animals in the belief that they would take on the atributes of that animal: speed, cunning, fierce fighter, etc. The Bible strickly forbids this - we are not to take on anything from the animals. However, taking on the atributes of Jesus is exactly what we now need to do - thus “drinking his blood” of the new covenant.
If you find a tenant disturbing, you should evict him.
If you find a tenet disturbing, you should speak with your priest.
Regards,
John 6:35. “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
It’s a ceremony. As the laying hands on the head of a bull to be slaughtered was a ceremony to represent the salvation of the Jews prior to Christ. It is to make you think and remember the Lord. You stop all other thoughts, all other actions and focus on the one to whom you owe your very existence. He is your sustenance.
John 6:53
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.”
But...Jesus very often spoke using parables and allegories. He often did not mean literally what he said. Instead, there was a deeper and richer lesson behind His words.
Is John 6:53 one of those cases? I think so. But then again, I do not have a divinity degree.
“Eating the body of Jesus doesn’t compute”
Neither does the Easter Bunny.
Christians believe in the symbolism of eating unleavened bread which represents the body of Christ.
Catholics believe in a Catholic doctrine called transubstantiation which means the host actually becomes the literal flesh of Jesus Christ.
It's very symbolic. It isn't as if Christians advocate cannibalism. By sharing in the teachings and words of Christ, (the "bread"), and believing in how He has shown us to live, we are saved!
What does every human have in common, indeed pretty much all living things ?
We eat life to live, weather its plants, animals, fungus, you name it, we all eat life.
It doesn’t matter how good or evil you are, you eat life.
This life is from God, what we call his Spirit.
The Spirit of Life in all living things.
Jesus tells us “I am the way the truth and the life.”
As you eat Life to live he’s telling us to eat this Special Gift of Life to live in Him and to never die.
It’s a gift to bring us closer to Him.