Happy Easter! I know a thread was made when the new calendar people celebrated Easter but I want to wish my fellow Orthodox a Happy Easter as well!
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To do the will of God is to believe on Him who He hath sent.
Read the 6th chapter of the book of John and pay attention to the text and context. The context is eating bread, eating manna, and “eating Christ”.
John 6:63 is the punchline. The “flesh” that he earlier said you must “eat” to be saved matters not. The Spirit is what counts. His words are Spirit and they are Life.
Christ also said, “If your eye offends you pull it out. If your hand offends thee cut it off”. Christ taught continuously in parables to teach Spiritual truth.
So the apostles got it wrong?
No, they didn’t.
The Apostles celebrated the Communion, the Divine Liturgy, St. Mark the Evangelist one of the 70 that Christ sent into the world founded the Coptic Orthodox Church. So you're right that they didn't get it wrong as we drink the Holy Blood and eat the Holy Body of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What they did —
“For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes”. I Cor 11:26
Exactly what the Lord asked them to do —
“Do this in remembrance of Me”. Luke 22
Well, they agree with what I said. The only surviving writings attest that the apostles believed in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Paul in Corinthians says that the reason many of the Corinthians were sick and dying was because they did not discern the true presence of Christ.