He said plainly that the bread was “Spirit,” not flesh, adding that Flesh profiteth not.
Catholics just skip reading the parts that spoil their pudding.
Had the catho;ic church existed a few centuries earlier, they would have broken the authors fingers so that they couldn’t write the NT.
Those who cannot discern the difference between His Flesh and the flesh, who do not recognize the difference between saying I am the bread and the bread is me will have no chance of getting this right.
Peace be with you
After Jesus proclaims they must eat His flesh, Jesus' disciples are scandalized by these words. They even ask, "Who can 'listen' to it (much less understand it)?" To the unillumined mind, it seems grotesque. In John 6:61-63 - Jesus acknowledges their disgust. Jesus' use of the phrase "the spirit gives life" means the disciples need supernatural faith, not logic, to understand His words.
There is not one place in Scripture where "spirit" means "symbolic." As we have seen, the use of "spirit" relates to supernatural faith. What words are spirit and life? The words that we must eat Jesus' flesh and drink His blood, or we have no life in us.