A) Jesus was a sinner;
B) The gospel accounts are lies.
No, those are the choices you have left yourself. (And by the way, rewording the Scripture to make it appear to support your position doesn't work.) The commonly accepted and Scripturally sound choice is the one most here are propounding - that the cup and the bread represent the blood and flesh of Christ, just as the unleavened bread represented the haste with with they Jews departed Egypt, and the bitter herbs that were used to cook the Passover Lamb represented the bitterness of the life the Jews led in Egypt. It is only when you try to make it the literal blood and flesh that you run into problems.
Understand that I am not trying to persuade you - you are to deeply indoctrinated into this man-made dogma for me to change your mind. I am merely responding to you so that others that read the thread will see the flaws in your reasoning, and will see that every time you are challenged to support your position with Scripture, you cannot. In that way, I hope to prevent others from falling into the same error as you.
You say that the Eucharist is a symbol, BECAUSE drinking the blood of Jesus would be a sin.
But you can’t deny that Jesus SAID, “Take this and drink, all of you..This is the chalice of my blood...”
So you are defending the proposition that Jesus commanded the apostles to carry out a ritual that SYMBOLIZES A SINFUL ACTION, drinking his blood.
I asked you to point to other examples of Jesus’ commanding us to SIN SYMBOLICALLY, like a ritual that SYMBOLIZES ADULTERY, or SYMBOLIZES IDOLATRY.
You ignored what I said, and instead ranted some more against Eucharistic realism, and ranted some more about how I have been stuffed full of Catholic propaganda.
Here’s an idea: How about READING what I wrote, and RESPONDING to it rationally?