Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!topaz!christian From: christian@topaz.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.religion.christian Subject: Re: Can you identify this group? Message-ID: <7252@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 21:01:33 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.7252 Posted: Sat Nov 22 21:01:33 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Nov-86 07:46:08 EST Sender: hedrick@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Wind tunnels for the soul, Madison, WI Lines: 13 Approved: christian@topaz.UUCP Given your list, I'd hazard that you're looking at either the Mormon church, or the Reorganized Mormon church (located in, I think, St. Louis). While most of the proper Orthodox buzzwords are there, I know of *no* Orthodox Christian church that practices baptism for the dead but the LDS bunch. By the way, the ordering of the list also suggests Mormon to me, probably from all that time I spent living in Mormonland-by-the-Lake, Salt Lake City. [In addition, the concept of the Father and Son as separate people with their own bodies, and the idea that the Church had died out and had to be refounded, are both characteristic Mormon interpretations. --clh]