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Some of the wording seems to assume that John the Baptist did in fact appear to some people in the United States. Wikipedia should take no position as to whether this actually took place; we need only explain what members of this church believe. I don't have time to rewrite it now. -- Zantastik 21:07, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I am formerly a member of this church. It is the belief of the members of this church the resurrected personage of John the Baptist appeared not only to an Apostle of this church, but others in the past also: i.e. Apostle, Otto Fetting and Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter-Day Saint Movement in 1829. If you have any questions relating to church history, contact Apostle George Wilkin: georgehwilkin@yahoo.com. He's my uncle and very knowledgeable of church history.
I deleted the "See Also: True Church of Jesus Christ Restored" section, because while David Roberts may have been affiliated with the Elijah Message organization at one time in his life, his church does not really claim its provinance via that organization, as Roberts claims to be the successor of James Strang--who was leader of a completely different faction of the Latter Day Saint movement that had nothing whatsoever to do with the Elijah Message church or any other "Hedrickite" organization ( Church of Christ (Temple Lot), Church of Christ (Fettingite), etc.). From that article's history, it seems it was deleted due to copyright issues anyway, and given what is stated above, there is no need that I can see to link to it here. - Ecjmartin ( talk) 01:34, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
I find the number of members to be {{ Dubious}}. This number is a self published value almost two and a half times the number of the sect it broke off from. This needs an independent source.-- ARTEST4ECHO ( talk/ contribs) 11:52, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
I've posted an inquiry here: Talk:List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement#Elijah Message.-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 20:01, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Although the CCEM appears to vary the way it styles its name, their most formal method of doing so appears to be with a capital-W and quotation marks setting off "with the Elijah Message," for example:
So, since Wikipedia endeavors to hew to whatever form a name is used in within the preponderance of sources and favors formal names to informal usages in article titles, I went ahead and moved this article's name to the form in the above citations.-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 09:07, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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Some of the wording seems to assume that John the Baptist did in fact appear to some people in the United States. Wikipedia should take no position as to whether this actually took place; we need only explain what members of this church believe. I don't have time to rewrite it now. -- Zantastik 21:07, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I am formerly a member of this church. It is the belief of the members of this church the resurrected personage of John the Baptist appeared not only to an Apostle of this church, but others in the past also: i.e. Apostle, Otto Fetting and Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter-Day Saint Movement in 1829. If you have any questions relating to church history, contact Apostle George Wilkin: georgehwilkin@yahoo.com. He's my uncle and very knowledgeable of church history.
I deleted the "See Also: True Church of Jesus Christ Restored" section, because while David Roberts may have been affiliated with the Elijah Message organization at one time in his life, his church does not really claim its provinance via that organization, as Roberts claims to be the successor of James Strang--who was leader of a completely different faction of the Latter Day Saint movement that had nothing whatsoever to do with the Elijah Message church or any other "Hedrickite" organization ( Church of Christ (Temple Lot), Church of Christ (Fettingite), etc.). From that article's history, it seems it was deleted due to copyright issues anyway, and given what is stated above, there is no need that I can see to link to it here. - Ecjmartin ( talk) 01:34, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
I find the number of members to be {{ Dubious}}. This number is a self published value almost two and a half times the number of the sect it broke off from. This needs an independent source.-- ARTEST4ECHO ( talk/ contribs) 11:52, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
I've posted an inquiry here: Talk:List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement#Elijah Message.-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 20:01, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Although the CCEM appears to vary the way it styles its name, their most formal method of doing so appears to be with a capital-W and quotation marks setting off "with the Elijah Message," for example:
So, since Wikipedia endeavors to hew to whatever form a name is used in within the preponderance of sources and favors formal names to informal usages in article titles, I went ahead and moved this article's name to the form in the above citations.-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 09:07, 24 September 2011 (UTC)