The OT Passover was a shadow and type (or whatever fancy words the theologians use) of Christ the real deal; but they were still required to eat it, in obedience to God.

Per the verses you gave, Christ's blood does wash our sins away, and per the rest of the NT we are required to eat His flesh and drink His blood.

His flesh isn't spiritual and His blood isn't spritual. If it was, He never would have had to come and die for us.

God loves matter (material things). We are made of matter, He became matter, He used matter (mud) to heal a man's eyes. Matter and flesh are GOOD things. God created them and said "they are good". When John 6 says "the flesh counts for nothing" it is referring to our carnal nature, not our flesh itself. "The flesh" was a Hebrew idiom for "the non-spirtual carnal nature".

Flesh is good. It was made by, and for, God. Period. Don't EVER EVER EVER criticize the flesh again. Don't EVER EVER EVER belittle Jesus's flesh again.

Jim

Catholicism = Jesus Christ + NOTHING
Non-Catholic Christianity = Jesus Christ - LOTS