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Good question. I am in an open communion church but my guess is that closed communions need the person to make some sort of vow to the leadershiip of the church not merely a claim to believe foundational Christian doctrine.
Why would He want to? That is His own body and blood, and He does not need those redeeming properties.
This, He does not need to follow His own instruction to do this thing in remembrance of Himself.Why would He want to? That is His own body and blood, and He does not need those redeeming properties.
His ministry only lasted 3 years. Prior to that He was known for a being a good teacher at the temple. The question I asked in the OP would relate to a time similar when no one knew Him as the Son of God. Back then He taught at the temple because He was a Jew but now that it is the time of the gentiles He would want to go to the gentile church. So would your church allow Him to have communion?Why would He want to? That is His own body and blood, and He does not need those redeeming properties.
I understand your question, though. I think many churches allow it. I know in my childhood church (Episcopal), we had to go through the confirmation process before we could receive. Some read the 1 Corinthians warning about taking the body and the bread "unworthily" as a danger.
"If you throw out the entire Christian understanding of the Incarnation, Eucharist, and eschatology, does your church's practice still make sense?"
We are not in a time when no one knows Him as God. Father, Son and Holy Ghost = God.
In other words, no, your church would not allow Him to have communion.
Your concept of "Him" in this hypothetical is not consistent with the Christian understanding of our Lord, and your concept of "communion" is limited to a modern evangelical understanding of the term, so I'm not sure what you want here. I'm trying to assume some level of good faith in your question, even if that might be naive of me.
Asking if Jesus would be admitted to His own table is ridiculous. He is IN the bread and wine on the altar, after the priest calls upon the Holy Spirit to make these gifts holy.
How have you managed to understand the posts to which you are replying like that?
The purpose of communion is to remember Jesus' sacrifice by partaking in bread and wine, symbolizing his body and blood given for salvation
Your posts display complete ignorance to what the Eucharist is.
We don't know and the question is purely academic. I suspect He did in order to lead by example.
Eucharist, in Christianity, ritual commemoration of Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples. The Eucharist (from the Greek eucharistia for “thanksgiving”) is the central act of Christian worship and is practiced by most Christian churches in some form. Along with baptism it is one of the two sacraments most clearly found in the New Testament.
