The original explanation of the Lord’s Supper as remembrance and proclamation
Claim examined: Scripture and interpretation
Scriptural Answer
Frank, You really don't know what you are talking about do you??? John 6:63 does answer your question just fine and I did not "mindlessly repeat it" as you assert... Your quoting of John 6:52-55 and John 6:47-51 does not help you one bit... Please show us where Jesus was talking about the Lord's Supper or Eucharist as you call it in any of these passages??? Sorry, it isn't there... Catholics do a good job of "assuming" with little proof and the proof is not in these passages that you quoted... If you look at verse 45 which states, "It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me." How are they going to "all" be taught by God??? The answer that Jesus gives is in verse 63 which states, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." It is the "words" that Jesus spoke that were "spirit" and "life" He also stated in this verse the "flesh profits nothing" so your assumption that Jesus literally meant one must eat His body and drink His blood is not true... We will all be judged by the words that Jesus spoke in the New Testament and our obedience to His commandments... (See John 12:48). The words that Jesus spoke are sufficient enough to produce faith in the gospel or "good news" of His death, burial and resurrection... You wrote, "If you don't believe that, you might as well not bother with getting baptised either." If you believe that literally eating Jesus body and drinking His blood keeps one saved you are sincerely mistaken... Jesus never stated that one was to "literally" eat His body and drink His blood... Nor did He ever intend anyone to take His words literally when He presided over the last supper... His words were mean to convey that we were to as He stated in Luke 22:19, "..do this in remembrance of Me." We partake of the Lord's supper in order to remember and proclaim Jesus death until He returns... I find it amazing that Catholics continue to take passages out of context and when they are shown the truth, they continue to reject what their error because that is not in accordance with what their leader the "pope" has decreed as truth... There is only one truth, and I can assure you that the "pope" doesn't have it...
KJV Scriptures Used
Read each passage in its chapter and compare the Scriptures together.