That is not what the scripture says. Indeed, we are told five times of the need to eat his flesh and drink his blood, as opposed to "born again" only two or three (i forget which).
papertyger,
by relying on Jesus-the living bread day by day, he wasn’t demanding that we re-enact the Last Supper everyday...He means HE is the bread, even when we’re without earthly bread. HE sustains us—spiritually. To KNOW Jesus personally IS life. He gives us eternal life. He’s the bread that never perishes.
Think about what you would do on a desert island with nobody else around you. No priests, no church, no one. Your days are numbered. Food is running out, there’s hardly fresh water. All you have is a pocket-sized New Testament with Christ promising that He is the Bread of life and that you must eat of it in order to be saved. And you read and read and read about this truth.
What would that mean to you without any “communion” to fall back on? Is it any less relevant now that you’re on a desert island about to face death and the judgment seat of Christ himself?
“Indeed, we are told five times of the need to eat his flesh and drink his blood, as opposed to “born again” only two or three (i forget which).”
Jesus also said, “26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” - Luke 14
Do you literally hate your family? Do you walk around with a cross on your shoulders? What would make anyone think this is supposed to be taken literally?