Further to Q&A 0594, do you have any thoughts about the bread and wine of the communion being the real flesh and blood of the Lord? --Roy Rudl

Jesus says that the cup is the new covenant (Luke 22:20). And yet how can a cup be a covenant? Symbolism is clearly meant. So it is with the bread and the body of Christ. They symbolize the flesh and blood of our Lord.

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