Orthodoxy disallows Danish Church baptisms

Politiken (Denmark) ^

[redgolum]

Very good point.

[Cronos]

quite frankly, these guys are no longer Lutheran, not even Christian.

[Biggirl]

When you think of it, it may have sent a message to that branch of the Lutheran church as a reminder to reject sin and accept the good news of the Gospel.

[Biggirl]

That is true about the Catholic that it does accept the baptisms of the Lutherans as valid.

[Biggirl]

Opps, forgot to add the word “Church:”.

[Claud]

Yeah, you’re right Vlad, as much as I sympathize with the stance, I am not clear how the ROC justifies this.

Perhaps there are now defects introduced in the sacrament itself? Like the Danes will now baptize a child under the sponsorship of two men, or something? I’m not sure if even that would do it, but I would think the ROC take sacramental theology too seriously to dive headfirst into Donatism.

[bad company]

No, it isn’t. The general Danish acceptance of homosexuality cannot in itself invalidate a proper Trinitarian baptism. In a sense the R.O.C. is showing the common eastern problem of Donatism.

This is hardly the only problem the Orthodox have with the Danish Luthern church.

[Romulus]

Exactly. Thank you for saying this.

[FormerLib]

But would the Obama Administration TRY to force them to do so? I believe dennisw is correct.

[Elendur]

When you think of it, it may have sent a message to that branch of the Lutheran church as a reminder to reject sin and accept the good news of the Gospel.
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while i applaud the idea... since in Christian theology, homosexual acts are clearly sinful...
i believe the ROC also refuses to accept most sacraments,
even of the Roman Catholic Church.
(even though, the Catholic church accepts all ROC sacraments as valid.)

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“This is hardly the only problem the Orthodox have with the Danish Luthern church.”

I’m sure that’s true. This is also true, however:

“This is hardly the only problem the Orthodox have.”

[lightman]

When you think of it, it may have sent a message to that branch of the Lutheran church as a reminder to reject sin and accept the good news of the Gospel.

In other words, to return to Thesis # 1 of the 95 Theses:

The Christian life is to be one of repentance.