I don’t recall Jesus making any distinction about denominational lines when He served the bread and the wine.
Interestingly, Catholics insist that eternal, spiritual life is given through eating the eucharist, tell those who are not Catholics in good standing or not Catholics at all, that they cannot receive communion, thereby denying them the opportunity to receive eternal life, and then try to deny that salvation is not though their church alone, as the CCC says when it states that there is no salvation outside the Catholic church.
They’d deny the opportunity for eternal life to those seeking is because they’re not part of the approved elite.
They’re like the Pharisees who try to prevent those from entering in who would want to, unless they jump through the right hoops, saying that they alone have the keys to eternal life and yet being the self-appointed gatekeepers who are more intent on keeping people out than letting them in.
I have no desire to stand in a “communion line” in a Roman church...that bread is a demonic idol..
Da debble is in 'em!
Actually, i think there is a good case for closed communion, to ensure it is only those who are of the Body of Christ are partaking, as the Lord's supper is to show His death by that shared communal meal, as per 1Cor. 11.
And ironically it is Caths who claim to believe in the Real Presence that should be excluded from the Lord's Supper, as they usually have never actually been converted, and i speak from experience, praise God now, and contort the Lord's Supper into a form of endocannibalism, supposing to receive spiritual life via physically eating human flesh, though Platonically explained.
Why would anyone want to participate in something they consider sacrilege or blasphemous?