Scott McGee wrote: --- Ok, question time. If a person is excomunicated due to them having taught false doctrine, is a statement from them renouncing the false doctrine required for their repentance? ---
If there is such a policy, I have not heard of it. In my experience, the specific information relating to most disciplinary courts is never disclosed by the church, notwithstanding circumstances where you might think that some public straightening-out would be in order. At the most, I have on occasion heard brief statements read in a local priesthood meeting, generally to the effect that so-and-so is no longer in fellowship with the church. I have never heard of an excommunicated member being encouraged to make public statements, either to renounce the false teaching he might have been promoting or for any other reason. In fact it would seem that the opposite approach is generally followed--excommunicated members are usually discouraged from publically discussing their problems or mistakes. Those that air their dirty laundry seemingly tend to be continuing in open defiance against the counsel of local leaders, some going to extremes like holding press conferences or publishing books or articles "exposing" their supposedly unfair handling by ecclesiastical authorities. Those who would repent and seek to have their membership restored seem to see this as a private matter, of which they have little desire to discuss publically. --- Mij Ebaboc ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
