The Real Presence - for the Promotion of Eucharistic Adoration: Youth: Questions, if the Eucharist is not the real body, then

Why did St. Paul so vehemently defend the Real Presence in his first letter to the Corinthians?
He wasn’t even at the Last Supper, and in 1 Corinthians 11 he shows us that not only had he received and been handed on the living tradition of the Eucharistic sacrifice through the apostolic tradition, but that he felt SO strongly about the fact that the bread and wine are TRULY flesh and blood, that he strictly warns followers who are in a state of serious (mortal) sin, “not to partake, lest they eat and drink judgment unto themselves.” There is NO way that St. Paul believed the Eucharist to be merely symbolic. Nowhere else in any of Paul’s writings does he take a mere “allegory” and defend it or explain it as doctrinal. And if you “throw out” St. Paul, you have just (in effect) “thrown out” half of the New Testament.

If the Eucharist is not truly Christ’s body and blood, then…

Why did Jesus not correct His statement in John 6 when followers began to leave because the teaching was “too hard”?
When they murmured amongst themselves and began to leave (John 6:41, 43, 66), Jesus didn’t relent, and didn’t claim that they “misunderstood what He meant”, and ask them to come back – He spoke even more truthfully and passionately, repeating that His flesh and blood were true food and drink, not one time, not two times, not three times, but FOUR times.

If the Eucharist is not truly Christ’s body and blood, then…

Nature – creation, disobeyed its creator. Everywhere else that the Lord commands something inanimate – like the sea and wind, those creations obey God. When Jesus said, “This is My body”, it’s not like the bread replied, “No, I’m not, I’m Wonder Bread.” Humans are the only creatures with the free will and ability to disobey God.
Creation is not.

If the Eucharist is not truly Christ's body and blood, then...

Why would so many people over the first three centuries have died for that meal? If it is "just bread" why would they sneak out to meet in the catacombs and risk their lives, for a simple piece of bread they could get at home, or fellowship they could get in their own "neighborhoods"?

Why would so many saints and martyrs, many far more intelligent and holier than you or I, have gone to their deaths living and defending the true presence?

Why would the command have been so diligently followed over the centuries, if it wasn't really from God and only from man?

Why would Christ have proclaimed it to be?

The Real Presence is the truth...
People can try to argue and say that He "didn't" do it...but no one who believes in Christ could argue that He couldn't do it. And the minute you proclaim that He could do it, you need only look to His WORD, where He gives us "His Word", and we realize not only that He "can" but DID.