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    wgw's Blog

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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    I don't actually; Orthodoxy does not rest on a high Petrology. The verses you mention testify to the integral unity of the Church as a living Eucharistic communion. Indeed. But it was closer to the Gospel than the rather bizarre story of the Book of Mormon.
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    Brussels terrorist attacks

    Thank you Cdr. Portuguese Baptist for informing us of this. We are all praying for the victims involved in this horrible incident.
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    The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus Explained

    No, the Ultra Orthodox Jews, the Charedim, are today's pharisees. Their lifestyle is built around doctrinaire adherence to Pharisaical theology and praxis.
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    Out of the Mouth of The Beast

    So just as a fact check, Ellen White in her lifetime published less than 40 books; most books published in her name were compiled posthumously fro her voluminous papers. (or perhaps ghostwritten). Agatha Christie on the other hand published 66 novels, which have sold more than 2 billion copies...
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    Out of the Mouth of The Beast

    @ViaCrucis raised a legitimate objection to your claim that Ellen G White is the most prolific female author in history. I think it would be beneficial ro this thread and indeed to your case were you to reply to his objection and provide some evidence to support your claim. There are three...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    I believe we are fully on topic; we are specifically discussing the subject of the Mormon temple ritual of proxy baptism, which I regard as a sacrilegious act, in that it implies a defect in the faith the deceased had while they were alive and concurrently shows a total disregard for their...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    That's not strictly speaking accurate; it also is inapplicable I think in a theological debate. As I see it, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the Mormon church has not begun to provide anything approaching the evidence required to take any of its theological claims at...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    I appreciate what Mormonism says about the Eastern Orthodox Church. However, it is a fact that your church regards our sacraments as invalid, and actively seeks to proelytize our members. Which is basically all I have said about Mormonism; indeed, I have gone out of my way to praise Mormons...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    Actually, I don't need to do that; St. Paul said "a another Gospel," and since the Book of Mormon has introduced a new book claiming to be "another Testament of Jesus Christ," that falls into the scope of the Pauline anathema unambiguously. Now, you can argue that what you teach corresponds...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    You were not an intruder; all Chriatian churches are open to outsiders, in their entirety; we welcome visitors. Particularly the Orthodox. Many people become Orthodox after experiencing the respelndant beauty of an Orthodox church, with the icons, architecture and so on. And who could blame...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    Indeed, the Druze will not even accept converts. They believe "the doors of salvation" are closed. You can't even marry into the Druze. In this resoect theynare similiar to the Yazidi, except I believe the Yazidi do not regard non Yazidi as damned; on the contrary, the Yazidis actually love...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    I don't have a confessional booth. But since we also whisper, and since no potentially embarassing individual remarks were left intact in these videos, and indeed, in several, the faces of the participants were blurred, I don't think that's a fair analogy. I am going to stop short of accusing...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    Just to clarify on this point, my goal in posting these videos, which anyone can find with a quick Google, was to provide Christian members of CF,com who don't have any Mormon background the opportunity to see first hand what actually goes on in Mormon Temples. Frankly, it is nothing really...
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    On this point, with all due respect, I think you must realize you are on a Christian website, and what younregard as sacred, many of us, myself included, regard as sacrilegious. This is because we consider your church to be preaching a false gospel. and imitating the worship services of both...
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    LDS Patriarchial Blessings: Genuine Prophecy or Wishful Thinking ???

    I can't speak for the Commander. but I am most interested in answers to those threads that relate to the liturgy and also to disciplinary rules. excommunications and punishments for members.
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    LDS Inside Mormon Worship Practices and Temple Rituals

    I was asked by some of my esteemed colleagues to contrviute to thread on Mormon Patriarchal blessings, however, I felt this was a subject of only limited interest to me personally. Rather, as a keen enthusiast of the Christian liturgy (I consider myself to be something of a scholar in...
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    A Church within a church for conservative Anglicans

    To my knowledge btw there are no Anglican Dominicans.
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    A Church within a church for conservative Anglicans

    There are several highly regarded aanglican monasteries in the UK, also. Dom Gregory Dix hailed from one. There are also Anglican Franciscans. I once thought about forming an order of Anglican Dominicans within the Episcopal Church as a sort of organized rebellion intended to promote...