[B-Chan]

non-Catholic Christians cannot have eternal life, having not eaten the Body and drank the Blood of Jesus, correct

Incorrect. Our Lord can save whomever He wants by whatever means He wants. We here on Earth have no way of knowing who is and is not going to Heaven after death. There are probably going to be a lot of people in Heaven who through no fault of their own have never received Communion at a mass of the Catholic Church. (We know for certain of four: Moses, Elijah, the Repentant Thief aka St. Dismas, and the patriarch Enoch.) Likewise, there are probably going to be quite a few regular mass attendees and regular churchgoers who really never loved Jesus at all and who end up in the Hot Place. May God have mercy on us all!

The point of what we are told about salvation is that all who ARE saved are saved through the Blood of Christ. How exactly each individual person is saved through the Blood of Christ is not our affair; "Strive to Enter". We Christians are not to waste time judging who is and is not saved; nor are we to receive Communion solely out of the fear of Hell. Instead, we are to spread the Gospel to all men and to receive the Sacraments out of love for the Lord. Those who deign to judge the eternal destiny of their fellowmen will find themselves getting judged on the Last Day; those who receive Communion purely on a "fire insurance" basis are probably doing it for the wrong reasons.

[Antoninus]

(We know for certain of four: Moses, Elijah, the Repentant Thief aka St. Dismas, and the patriarch Enoch.)

We can probably safely add Abraham as well, considering the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man.

[Antoninus]

Ah, and John the Baptist as well.

[armydoc]

Incorrect. Our Lord can save whomever He wants by whatever means He wants. We here on Earth have no way of knowing who is and is not going to Heaven after death.

Would you agree that those adherents to faiths that expressly deny the deity of Jesus, such as Jews and Muslims, are not saved?

There are probably going to be a lot of people in Heaven who through no fault of their own have never received Communion at a mass of the Catholic Church.

I'll take it, then, that you don't take John 6:53-56 literally, then:

53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.