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| | bishop - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about bishop |
 | | Bishops are responsible for meeting to settle matters of belief or discipline; they ordain priests and administer confirmation (as well as baptism in the Orthodox Church). | | | Originally, bishops were chosen by the congregation, but in the Roman Catholic Church they are appointed by the pope, although in some countries, such as Spain, the political authority nominates appointees. | | | In the Methodist and Lutheran churches the bishop's role is mostly that of a supervisory official. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/bishop
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| | My Spirituality as seen from both Inside and Outside of the Mormon Church |
| | Mormon scripture today teaches that polygamy will be required of those who dwell with God in the highest realm of heaven. | | | Mormonism attempts to demystify spiritual issues by providing unambiguous answers to many of the unanswerable questions that troubled people in the early 1800s when it was founded, and still trouble mankind now. | | | Mormonism has a narrow, literal approach to most religious issues, and is authoritarian in the extreme. |
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http://mccue.cc/bob/spirituality.htm
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| | Mormonism Research Ministry - Articles - Leaving Mormonism |
| | Leaving the Mormon faith can also mean being treated less cordially by Mormon family members and friends. | | | While Christians with no background in Mormonism and with no knowledge of the LDS faith may be very sincere, they may have a difficult time helping you break through the language barriers and theological differences. | | | I no longer believe the Book of Mormon is the "most correct book on earth." (You may wish to list some of the inconsistencies between the teachings in the Book of Mormon and Mormon doctrine as it is taught today.) |
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http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/leaving-mormonism.html
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| | MORMONISM |
| | Brigham Young identifies God the Father as Adam, and Mormons teach that is was not through the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit but through the physical union of this immortal Adam-God and the mortal Virgin Mary that God the Son, "Jehovah" or Jesus Christ, was born in the flesh. | | | The subject of things doesn’t change the fact that the Mormons consider one of the gods as the main one, but the fact that their god is limited and is not the unique. | | | In 1978, however, Mormon Church president Spencer Kimball announced that he had received a new revelation, and that the Mormon Church was now free to ordain blacks. |
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http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/mormon_e.htm
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| | Distinctive Beliefs of the Mormon Church |
| | Indeed, the faithful Mormon wife of a lukewarm Mormon man will leave him behind in an inferior place while she goes on and is sealed to a more devout Mormon gentleman. | | | Mormonism, you should understand, is one of those religions which is peculiarly American. | | | It is one of those doctrines, shared by Fundamentalists and Mormons, that is believed independently of the Bible, though the Bible has been searched unsuccessfully for verses that seem to back it. |
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http://www.catholic.com/library/Distinctive_Beliefs_of_Mormon.asp
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| | Mormonism Unveiled |
| | The Mormons are fanatics; they will keep their oath to obey him. | | | I was taught to look upon all sects, except the Catholic, with disfavor, and my opinion was that the Mormons and all others were apostates from the true Church; that the Mormon Church was made up of the offscourings of hell, or of apostates from the true Church. | | | Mormonism repudiates the celibacy imposed by the Catholic reliion upon its priesthood, and takes in its stead the voluptuous impositions of the Mohammedan Church. |
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http://www.helpingmormons.org/Mormonism_Unveiled_1.htm
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| | A Trial Lawyer Reviews Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets - FARMS Review |
| | If Bishop asserts, which he really does not, that local church leaders agreed with him to dictate to jurors the outcome of the case, Bishop would be admitting to a crime at the most and grounds for disbarment at the least. | | | Once he was stripped of civil power, the church may have well taken the position that the Mormon prophet's control over wrongdoers was limited to the remedies specified in section 134 of the church's Doctrine and Covenants. | | | With not a shred of evidence other than the speculation circulated by others, Boreman said he believed that high Mormon officials communicated death threats to witnesses of the massacre and that ordinary members of the church believed they were authorized to commit perjury by reason of the vows they took in the church's Endowment House. |
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http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=review&id=509
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| | Forty Years In Mormonism and Why I Left It - Preface |
| | The Reorganized "Mormon Church" does not teach or practice polygamy. | | | Their great sin is in denying that Joseph Smith, their prophet, seer and revelator, received revelations commanding the church to enter into that God dishonoring and woman debasing doctrine under pain of eternal damnation, in denying that he taught, practiced and advocated it, privately, while he denied it publicly. | | | I have endeavored to give the true history of Mormonism, quoting very largely from their own works, and bringing into prominence the teaching of the Prophets, Seers and Revelators and other leading ministers. |
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http://www.biblebelievers.net/Cults/Mormonism/FortyYears/kjcforty.htm
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| | Eric Kettunen - Recovery from Mormonism |
| | At the time I began to lose my faith in Mormonism I was a bishop of a Ward in... | | | I was raised a Mormon, and I am the only one who is not longer a member. | | | Well here I am, another recovering Mormon, and all I have to say is that it is so nice to know I can find other people who can really understand. |
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http://www.exmormon.org/whyleft4.htm?FACTNet
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| | Mormonism's Problem with Child Sexual Abuse--The Salt Lake City Messenger, November 1996 |
| | Mormon scholar Jessie L. Embry, of the church's Brigham Young University, acknowledged that as late as 1886 Lorenzo Snow, who became the fifth prophet of the Mormon Church, still secretly held to the belief that brothers and sisters could marry. | | | Although we thought Mormon leaders would deny the accusations of ritualistic abuse in the church, we are happy to report that they acknowledged that Pace wrote the memo and that there was indeed a problem in the church. | | | is a daughter of a general authority in the Mormon church, a daughter of one of the Twelve Apostles. |
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http://www.xmission.com/~country/reason/nov96_2.htm
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| | Issue 67 - Salt Lake City Messenger |
| | Mormons, likewise, are anxious to learn of those who leave important positions in other churches to become members of their church. | | | Schnoebelen claimed that the Mormon Apostle James E. Faust admitted in a private interview in 1981 that the Mormon temple ceremony was a witchcraft ritual and that Lucifer was, in fact, the God of the temple. | | | It is not unusual to find a bishop who had been consecrated in one lineage, being excommunicated and/or renouncing the bishop who consecrated him, and setting up his own church with a second (better?) consecration and/or seeking multiple consecrations from a number of bishops. |
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http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no67.htm
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| | Confessing to a Mormon Bishop about seeing a PG-13 Movie |
| | Note: This meeting with the Bishop was initiated because this Mormon (though seriously questioning Mormonism) husband went to see the Movie "Chicago" with his wife, who is a devout Mormon. | | | The church teaches people to follow and obey their leaders, but even from a Mormon perspective, coercion was Satan's plan, not God's plan. | | | Every Mormon should be blessed to have such a man as bishop. |
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http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon223.htm
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| | Real Mormon History |
| | Footnoted and documented from Mormon books and scriptures, Mormon newspapers, and sources friendly to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | | | To be a God, one must be a polygamist | | | Mormon women given 2 weeks to quit whining |
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http://www.realmormonhistory.com
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| | Rethinking Mormonism |
| | Mormons must believe the Book of Mormon is true | | | A Former LDS Bishop responds to Holland's call for conformity in the church | | | You can't be a faithful member and reject the historicity of the Book of Mormon |
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http://www.i4m.com/think/intro
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| | Story of Polygamy-1881-Contents |
| | Incident of the Endowment House.-Statement of a Mormon Bishop.-Testimony of a Victim.-Result of | | | Three Generations.-The Mormon Elder and His Wives.- Advice of a Mormon Woman. |
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http://www.polygamyinfo.com/wom_book_contents.htm
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| | Rethinking Mormonism - Commentaries |
| | Dialoge between a former LDS Bishop and a believing Mormon | | | What the lives of Mormons may be telling us about Mormonism | | | A former-Mormon examines bible claims as virgorously as other Mormon claims |
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http://www.i4m.com/think/comments
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| | ward: Information From Answers.com |
| | A ward is presided over by a bishop, the equivalent of a pastor in other religions. | | | The main organizations (called auxiliaries) of a ward that are overseen directly by the Bishop are the Relief Society (the LDS Women's organization), the Young Men and Young Women's organizations, the Primary Association (the children's organization) and the Sunday School. | | | Two counselors serve with the bishop to help with administrative duties of the ward and also preside in the absence of the bishop. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/ward-mormonism
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