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All that stuff is between a man and his God. The Bible authorizes no one to exclude one from taking communion.

My friend, That sounds suspiciously like, “between a woman and her doctor.” Is your understanding of mans relationship to God in the same vein as that?

Also if you can provide scriptural support for your assertion I’d be glad to take a look and contemplate it.

"All that stuff is between a man and his God. The Bible authorizes no one to exclude one from taking communion."

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If taking communion unworthily is harmful for a person (as St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11), the loving and caring thing for anyone to do is to try to stop that person from harming themselves.

The Bible doesn't tell us to try to stop heroin addicts from shooting up, either, or to try to stop a person who is obviously drunk from climbing into their car and driving off, or to try to stop a person who is mentally ill or disturbed from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, but that does not mean that a loving, caring person (including a pastor) should not try to stop those harmful things, from happening, just because they don't perceive those exact word formulations in the Bible.

Now (in reality) the truth is that if someone insists on taking communion in an unworthy manner, they will most likely be able to do that anywhere they go, as no priest or Eucharistic minister can possibly know if a person has totally turned away from their sins and sinful life, and have taken the right steps and have properly received the Sacrament of Confession/Reconciliation prior to coming to Mass, making them eligible to receive communion in a worthy manner. However, if a person insists on harming himself/herself, they will most likely be able to do that for the time being, but it is a very foolish choice to make.

Read just a bit further in that letter to the Corinthians:

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For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

1 Corinthians 11:29

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