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To: Springfield Reformer
Cult:
Short for OCCULT - meaning hidden.

The MORMON Temple Rituals® are HIDDEN from public veiw.

They say they are SO sacred.

I say, "Show me them in your SCRIPTURE" and then I might believe they are SACRED and not just SECRET.

465 posted on 08/30/2010 1:46:57 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Hmmm.... interesting point. However, methinks “Cult” is a word with a serious identity disorder. My sources (dictionary, commentators, etc.) say it is not a derivative of “occult” but rather an abbreviated form of the latin “cultus,” which simply means a specific form of devotion to one or more deities (aka “worship”). Thus “occult” is simply “worship” with a prefix that means “hidden.” So I do not dispute the occult, and thus unbiblical, nature of secret rituals, whether Mormon, Freemason, or otherwise, but the word “cult,” by itself, does not necessarily imply that.


490 posted on 08/30/2010 3:26:41 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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