You mean like when the Mormon Church added stuff like this:
Chapter 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2015621/posts
Chapter 6 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2013874/posts
Chapter 5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2012807/posts
Chapter 4 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2012282/posts
Chapter 3 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011762/posts
Chapter 2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011222/posts
Chapter 1 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011218/posts
Is this supposed to be “open,” “ecumenic,” or “caucus”?
Obviously the sign of apostasy was when the Talmage's Church substituted Wonder Bread for unleavened bread and tap water for wine.
You mean like when the Mormon Church added stuff like this:
Pro 30:5 ¶ Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Pro 30:6 ADD THOU NOT UNTO HIS WORDS, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
1. As one of the effective causes leading to the apostasy of the Primitive Church we have specified: Unauthorized additions to the ceremonies of the church, and the introduction of vital changes in essential ordinances.
Likewise, are proxy baptism for the dead, and the addition of special undergarments indications of the same thing the author bemoans?
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The Catholic and Orthodox Liturgical Traditions were born out of liturgical Jewish Temple services. The Eucharistic ceremony, for example, was a way for the congregation to accept Christ’s sacrifice for them, and to pledge themselves to God in return.
That newly Christianized Greeks and Romans brought some of their cultural traditions and adapted them to Christianity is not evidence of apostasy. Indeed, it seems that the Apostles, particularly Paul, approved of it to some extent because he rejected a strictly Hebrew form of Christianity. The Early Christian community developed a new culture based on the fact that the Covenant spread around the world and it mixed peoples of vastly different traditions together.