To: Governor Dinwiddie; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; ...
How can any religious precepts be "hyper-orthodox". Either a religious belief is orthodox or it's a different religion. True, and most are drifting South (and Catholicism is already there), but you can get into hair-splitting
For example: Codd, now pastor at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Charlotte, has asked that all who were baptized in his church in recent years be rebaptized because the proper Vatican mandated formula — the preferred saying is "I baptize" — was not used. Previously a deacon in the parish might have used a formula that began "we baptize."
23 posted on
01/28/2021 6:48:24 PM PST by
daniel1212
(Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned + destitute sinner + trust Him to save + be baptized+follow Him!)
To: daniel1212
That’s not hair splitting. That’s a serious defect of form.
29 posted on
01/28/2021 7:03:08 PM PST by
Romulus
To: daniel1212
LOL, the "Vatican mandated formula" ?? Look it up: every traditional Christian church, at least until the 1960s, used the same "Vatican mandated" formula "N, I baptize you in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit". Lutherans did, Anglicans did, Orthodox certainly still do, etc.
There's no such thing as a sacrament that is administered by a group ("we") to an individual. THe minister of a sacrament stands in the place of Christ. Christ is not a committee.
40 posted on
01/28/2021 9:24:07 PM PST by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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