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Be honest please. You believe your church. You don't believe Jesus is literally a giant head and everyone in the church is literally a body part. You believe your church. You don't literally believe you are consuming a human piece of meat and human blood. Is doesn't really mean is.

Picking apples may be the place or activity in which God graciously saves a person. Fighting to keep from drowning in a storm may be a place or activity in which God graciously saves a person. On the other hand, it may not be in either of those activities. If a person receives communion, but...

Your first question has already been answered in this thread. Your second question is answered as: All of them. Proof: The Apostles were not cannibals.

Please quote Jesus or the Apostles saying "is means is " [emoji57]

If you ask any Catholic theologian what the most important part of Christian life is, they’ll tell you the Eucharist. Which is why the U.S. bishops must feel like they have been double punched by new data from the Pew Research Center. On July 23, the prestigious polling firm released a new...

The Apostles didn't see it the way you see it. Though you will no doubt make more unsubstantiated claims about the Apostles from church stories you have been taught.

State run churches have interpreted it the way you do because they teach a false teaching about sacraments. They teach that the sacraments cause God to give grace to the person performing the sacrament. It is a works based theology that ignores the biblical truth that God chooses to extend grace...

Is either means is, for all uses, or is becomes interpreted based upon context and language used. Christ is not the literal head while we make up literal body parts. We know Paul was using a metaphor. So, the bread and the wine are not literally the flesh and blood of Jesus. We know this...

Is means is... And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. ~ Colossians 1:18

Does is mean is, Josiah? Or do we have the ability to discern when is isn't literally is, but is actually symbolic or metaphorical? Perhaps you want the right to be the final dictator of what is means in each situation in the Bible. You will be disappointed to know that you don't own that role...

The is means is.

By the way, how many of you take this passage literally? Is Jesus the literal head? Does is mean is?

You mean Jesus, I presume. There is only one head of the body. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created...

The children of the promise will inherit the Promise because God has chosen to redeem them. The children of the promise, the true Israel of God, come from every nation, tribe and tongue. You would know this if you read all the Bible and understood God's overarching plan.

Perhaps Romans 9:6-8 will help you. But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not...

If is means is then we take everything literally. No symbolic meaning, no similes or metaphors. Is means is. Jesus body must have been composed of bread. Likely motzo bread.

I already went through the text and stayed with the literal interpretation. I showed what the literal text says. I stuck with is meaning is. Now it seems you don't want is to be is.

That's not what the text says, however. You clearly believe your position is correct. I'm stating the text does not say what you are saying.

I suspect that people will fall on the empty argument of "mystery" in order to not concede the argument of literal interpretation falls apart. Because the literal approach falls apart, I hold to the symbolic interpretation of bread and wine. For me, it fits the context of the passages much...

You are using eisegesis, not exegisis to come to your conclusion. Taking the verse literally, one will conclude that Jesus body was composed of bread and his veins were filled with wine. Is means is, as you have declared.