[DeaconBenjamin]

So, you mean there are consequences to all the mindless, lawless, anti-Biblical but modern innovations that western churches are adopting?

[lightman]

Lutheran Ping!

Be rooted in Christ!

[Biggirl]

It could be very much a sign that as talks of the Orthodox Church with the Roman Catholic Church continue on, with in time as God wills and provides, a pathway towards full unity, look for more such efforts to take place to not accept the baptisms of certain churches.

[texson66]

The Russian church is 100% correct to take that position.

[circlecity]

Wasn’t that Kierkegaard’s Church?

[dennisw]

Next Obama term an Eastern Orthodox church will be legally forced to accept such baptisms

[Unam Sanctam]

Of course Trinitarian baptism is supposed to be the one great ecumenically acknowledged sacrament among us different separated brethren, but I can sympathize with the Russian Orthodox here in the face of the hypermodernist Protestants of the West who are ditching traditional Christian moral and other teachings as fast as they can to adapt to the Zeitgeist...

[yldstrk]

Good for them. Some church should actually stand up for the Word.

[lightman]

The Christian faith is premised that Jesus,the only-Begotten Son of the Father, the eternal Word became flesh and taught with authority.

He has said: “but from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

To reject this clear teaching of scripture is to reject the One who taught it.

Luther says that without the Word the water is nothing but common water.

Those who deny the Word are not being “re-baptized”; for they were never truly Baptized in the first place.

[xzins]

“Previously (Christian) churches could at least agree that there was one baptism. If you cannot agree that a baptism is the entrance to the Christian church, there is not much left of ecumenical cooperation,” says Southern Denmark University Religious Studies Ass. Prof. Annika Hvithmar.

You can't very well hold a membership ceremony for hell, and then turn around and want heaven to accept that membership as well.

[redgolum]

I think this just applies to the “state” churches. There some small synods in both Sweden and Denmark who are much more orthodox.

Good for the Russian Orthodox. Make a stand.

[Pollster1]

homosexual relationships are a sin in Orthodox theology

I would have said, "homosexual relationships are a sin in Christian theology", even though the phrase would offend those who are pretending to be Christian but rewriting the Bible to fix what they see as God's mistakes.