This is what Tertullian wrote about the subject of what gives life citing Jesus saying eat my flesh.
"He censures those who understood our Lord's words after the letter, as if they were to eat the carnal body. He expounds the spiritual thing which gives life as to be understood by the text: "the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." His word is the life-giving principle, therefore he called his flesh by the same appellation, so we are to "devour Him with the ear, ruminate on Him with the understanding, and digest Him by faith."
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III
This shows that before 325ce, Christians had no sacrificial eating of the slaughtered mangod ceremonies and understood that the teaching of Jesus, words that he received from God like bread from heaven that became his flesh is just a new metaphor for a new Divine revelation, the Actual Body of Christ, that you desecrate every time you eat an imaginary mangod in a matzo.
What you do at mass is an abomination that causes desolation. Its just the truth. Deal with it.
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but you might want to include in your speculations, if you can think at all, is that the Gospels were written by unknown Jewish authors who witnessed the prophecies of Jesus fulfilled; the brutal and total destruction of Judea, the temple, their way of life, and the enslavement, exile, and slaughter of hundreds of thousands Jewish men women and children. Pssst! It was their first century version of the nuclear option.
