hislittleflower-throughconcrete:

tokillthedragon:

If Christ was speaking in metaphors about eating His flesh in John 6 and when He said, “This is my body. … This is my blood.” at the Last Supper, then why are the Early Church Fathers unanimous in believing in the Real Precense of Christ in the Eucharist? If Christ meant it to be purely symbolic, then why did the earliest Christian teachers unanimously get it wrong?

Exactly. Look me in the eye and say that St. John – who was His Beloved, at Jesus’ feet when He was crucified – Sts. Peter and Paul and all of the apostles (and those they taught, such as Luke) unanimously got this most crucial teaching wrong. Like there were so many heresies floating around (which the Church kept squashing) but not one about the Eucharist. Not one. Because it wasn’t up for interpretation or debate, it was repeatedly and explicitly explained by Jesus to His followers in the Bible and was the cornerstone of worship for centuries – the New Covenant Passover.

Absolutely no one even had the notion it was merely a symbol until the post-Luther Christian shambles.