[editor-surveyor]

"It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.'"

The last verse you quote destroys your point!

[Gophack]

Please see my post #251 where I tried to show how the apostles and the early church fathers all believed in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

It's important to remember that all of Scripture is the revealed word of God, and that nothing contradicts anything else. If one passage SEEMS to contradict another passage, then you have to look at the explanations that are not in contradiction. It seems to me that throughout the Gospels, the Real Presence is explicit ... "This IS my body," ... "The IS my Blood" ... "My flesh is food INDEED" ... "My blood is drink INDEED" ... "Truly, truly I say to you, that if you do not eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you". Literally? Yes ... because the flesh is of no avail, but the SPIRIT gives us life, and the SPIRIT turns the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

God bless.