” Are you trying to reinforce my firm conviction that Protestantism ignores the scripture it does not like and offers fantastical explanations when pressed?”
You can and likely will draw whatever conclusion (”conviction”) you already predecided. That tells me you aren’t objective in the matter, but that is based on the specific words of your post.
In this case, the context of the chapter is the Body of Christ - meaning other believers. The whole chapter corrects them for their treatment of other believers.
Best.
That is the larger context of 1 Cor. 11, but in the passage in focus St. Paul speaks of "eating" and "drinking" next to "discerning the body" and is repeating the words of Christ "this is my body". So the "body" in that passage is no longer the Christian assembly but precisely the Eucharist being eaten.
