| Re: Where is our focus to be? [message #3614 is a reply to message #2892] |
Wed, 18 July 2018 07:16  |
Navysky
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Registered: July 2018
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Is it wrong to suggest that a person being excommunicated, if done for higher reasons, could actually be coming closer to Christ? Let me explain what I mean by higher reasons. If a person is doing everything they can to follow Christ, and some of what they are directed to do is not in conformity with what the church either teaches or tolerates, then that person may get excommunicated from the LDS church. If they were directed by the Spirit to do it, is the church right for ex-ing them, or are they justified because the Spirit directed them to do (whatever it was that got them kicked out)?
I know of several people who have been exed for being rebaptized. In the early days of the church they did rebaptisms often. In Moroni 6:1 it talks about teachers and priests being baptized. If they were already priests, then they have already been baptized and so this would be in fact rebaptism. Also, those who survived the destruction at Bountiful when the Lord visited the Nephites were instructed to be baptized. These were the righteous ones who were spared from the destruction because they were living faithfully. They had already been baptized so when the Lord commanded it, it was in fact rebaptism.
So, who is right in this scenario?
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