{"id":41598,"date":"2021-03-28T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T21:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=41598"},"modified":"2021-03-29T19:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:23:43","slug":"einf-ruf-aus-der-wuste-4-8-orsond-hyde-on-confession-and-disfellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/einf-ruf-aus-der-wuste-4-8-orsond-hyde-on-confession-and-disfellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ein Ruf aus der W\u00fcste 4.8: Orson Hyde on confession and disfellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Article 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On the confession of sin and the treatment of members acting contrary to law.(1)<\/p>\n<p>Whenever a member of our church becomes guilty of immoral behavior or an offense against its rules, a confession on his part as well as a sincere promise of improvement becomes necessary in order to preserve his right to fellowship. If the offense was in secret, then he must confess it inwardly before his God and before those persons who were thereby offended; but if his offense was public, he must confess publicly and submit to public rebuke.\u00a0 If the guilty person should refuse to confess or submit to the regulations of the church, however, he is expelled from it and his name is stricken from the book.<\/p>\n<p>The church with a presiding elder is a competent tribunal to settle all disputes and complaints that may arise under ordinary circumstances. But we also have a higher tribunal before which important cases are heard, and this consists of twelve high priests, all of whom must be men of experience and high moral worth. If these twelve should not be able to deny (2) their opinion in some matter, then the matter in question is submitted to the president of this council, who must possess the gift of prophecy. He then presents it to the Lord in solemn prayer and implores him for enlightenment and instruction. And the word of the Lord thus received puts an end to all disputes.<\/p>\n<p>A person who has been expelled from fellowship in our church cannot return to it until he publicly confesses the misdeeds for whose sake he was cast out. He must then however be baptized and confirmed again before he can again be recognized as a participating member.(3)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>(1) The concept of church discipline has fallen on hard times, but at least for some in the 16th century, it was essential that the true church of Christ be a disciplined body where flouting God&#8217;s commands had real consequences. Ministering to the penitent sinner was fine; serving as a social club for miscreants was not. For the 19th century, my guess is that this article served a similar purpose: the church was no band of hypocrites and libertines, but the restored Church of Jesus Christ in very deed.<\/p>\n<p>(2) I think this is again one of the rare defective sentences. My speculation is that the intended meaning was that the council would not be able to <em>pronounce<\/em> their opinion, but it came to the translator as <em>renounce<\/em> their opinion, resulting in the German word <em>verl\u00e4ugnen<\/em>, which doesn&#8217;t make a great deal of sense here, unless I&#8217;m missing something.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Given the events of 1838-39, I feel like maybe Orson Hyde could have said something here about his personal perspective on church discipline. Maybe a missionary tract wasn&#8217;t the right place for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the confession of sin and the treatment of members acting contrary to law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41603,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598\/revisions\/41603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}