posted on Nov, 4 2003 @ 08:16 PM
This has been covered in the religious posts ......a few times I must add!!!
Scroll down the page.....on the religious posts ...on your left hand side...look at the topics covered...click on any that interest you....there are
a few different opinions on what the ''mark of the beast '' may be!
Also the mark of the beast IS NOT the Crucifix....when a Christian get's babtised.....he/she is chrismated on the forehead,hands, legs,eyes, and so
on.......
The mark of the beast will be placed to replace the holy babtism received........
significance of Baptism, the Apostles in their
Epistles indicate that in it we are �sanctified,� �cleansed,� �justified�; that in Baptism we �die to
sin� so as to walk in renewed life; we are �buried with Christ,� and we arise with Him. �Christ
loved the Church, and gave Himself for at that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing
of water by the word� (that is, Baptism with the utterance of the words instituted to accompany
it) (Eph. 5:25-26). �Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
and by the Spirit of our God� (1 Cor. 6:11). �We are buried with Him by Baptism into death,
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life� (Rom. 6:4). Baptism is called the �washing of regeneration� (Titus
So the ''mark'' will be the opposite ..it will take away our faith in Christ...
The performer of the Mystery, the bishop or
priest, �anoints the one who has been baptized with Holy Myrrh, making the sign of the Cross on
the brow and eyes, the nostrils, the lips, both ears, the breast, and the hands and feet� (from the
Book of Needs); while signing each part of the body he pronounces the words, �The seal of the
gift of the Holy Spirit.�
helen.....