Excommunication/Disfellowshipping is pagan practice!--by request! Request from researcher: Hi Atlantis or N. or whoever! One of my friends on the board said that she downloaded the 1947 Awake pdf that "bereanbiblestudent and Invetigator 74" posted, and in the first issue on page 26, it said that excommunication or disfellowshipping was a pagan practice. My computer is so slow I couldn't download the file. Can you help me out ? ********************************************* My comments: Thank you for your request! Since the information you are needing came from a post from someone else, then we will give them the credit and scan the page you want, and then we will bow-out-gracefully! We don't want to pirate their post. OK! Perhaps, Bereanbiblestudent or Invetigator 74, will pop in and add their comments when we post the scan for you. Page 26 you say? No, its page 27. Here you go, below the definition. *********************************************
Excommunication (redirected from Disfellowshiped)
EXCOMMUNICATION, eccl. law. An ecclesiastical sentence, pronounced by a spiritual judge against a Christian man, by which he is excluded from the body of the church, and disabled to bring any action, or sue any person in the common law courts. Bac. Ab. h.t.; Co. Litt. 133-4. In early times it was the most frequent and most severe method of executing ecclesiastical censure, although proper to be used, said Justinian, (Nov. 123,) only upon grave occasions. The effect of it was to remove the excommunicated "person not only from the sacred rites but from the society of men. In a certain sense it interdicted the use of fire and water, like the punishment spoken of by Caesar, (lib, 6 de Bell. Gall.). as inflicted by the Druids. Innocent IV. called it the nerve of ecclesiastical discipline. On repentance, the excommunicated person was absolved and received again to communion. These are said to be the powers of binding and loosing the keys of the kingdom of heaven. This kind of punishment seems to have been adopted from the Roman usage of interdicting the use of fire and water. Fr. Duaren, De Sacris Eccles. Ministeriis, lib. 1, cap. 3. See Ridley's View of the Civil. and Ecclesiastical Law, 245, 246, 249. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Disfellowshiped The Watchtower's attempt to condemn the Catholic Church, no doubt! Awake-1947-January-8-p.27-Are You Also Excommunicated?