When you read these verses that say 'eat my flesh' and 'my flesh is food indeed' and my body is bread, it's easy to see a connection between Jesus' flesh and bread...
But when one sees in the same context in the same chapter that eating and drinking these things which are connected to Jesus that you will never thirst nor hunger again, it's time to look at these verses more closely...And search for other scriptures that might unlock and unfold what you've clearly missed...
YOu then discover that nowhere in the scriptures are you told that unknown to the senses that bread and wine is literally meat and blood...Nowhere are you told that someone must or will or can take on this feat and turn Jesus' flesh into blood and wine...Nowhere are you told that God will do this for you...And nowhere is anyone instructed to do it...
So you continue to search the scriptures...
When some guy comes up and says, 'hey I can do this thing that you want that the scriptures are silent about, and when it's over, nothing has changed, it's time to seriously question the guy that makes the claim...
And then when you see the scripture that says pay no mind to what you put into your mouth, like the bread some guy told you was really Jesus' flesh, it goes out into the sewer in a few minutes anyway...
Then, it's time to get back into the scriptures to find what you missed...
Therein lays the problem. When someone believes something other than scripture is the authority why would there be a drive to “search the scriptures”?
Ah I see, the problem is that I haven't read them closely enough.
I've looked at them closely. In context. In Greek.
And come to the exact opposite conclusion.
So tell me....what should I do now? Should I hold fast to the doctrine that I by careful study derived from the Scriptures? Or should I, instead, deny what the Scriptures plainly tell me and just accept the doctrines handed down by men--i.e. you?