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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, the reason for differences in rules about receiving communion have to do with differences in beliefs about the Eucharist.  [b]Protestants believe that the bread is a symbol that they share in memory of Jesus's last supper. Catholics believe that the bread and wine is transformed into the body and blood of Jesus [/b]an so they want those who partake of communion to share those same beliefs. 
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Cradle Catholic here, and now I worship in an ELCA Lutheran church.

The above is what I learned, as a Catholic child, is what Protestants believe.  But it is not in fact what all Protestants believe.  It is what the Catholic Church believes about Protestant communion.  Which is different from what Protestants themselves believe.

What Lutherans and Episcopalians actually believe is that Christ is actually present in the elements of bread and wine.  Not much different from transubstantiation.

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No, as an attendee of Episcopal classes, I was taught that christ was present, but not as transubstantiation.[/quote]

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