Here’s a novel way to look at Church Conlict…
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Tue, August 04, 2009
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From the New York Times: The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, said profound differences among the world’s 77 million Anglicans over gay clergy and same-sex unions could divide their church into a “two-track model” yielding “two styles of being Anglican.”
The formula could avert a formal breach between liberals and conservatives but bring new strains in the relationship between the global Anglican Communion and American Episcopalians who resolved this month to open the door to ordaining openly gay bishops and to start the process of developing rites for same-sex marriages...
So what exactly does this mean? Gay anglicans and non-gay anglicans? How exactly could this EVER work?
Your thoughts?
Todd
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CS on Tue, August 04, 2009
Sounds more like a two-track system of, “People Who Encourage Sin,” and, “People Who Don’t Want to Be Heretics.”
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CS
Peter Hamm on Tue, August 04, 2009
No, CS,
It’s even better than that.
People who think the Bible is a rule of life, and people who think they can make any rule of life they want to.
Check out this EXACT quote from V. Gene Robinson, the openly-gay bishop of New Hampshire who’s election to Bishop started all this nonsense.
“Just simply to say that it goes against tradition and the teaching of the church and Scripture does not necessarily make it wrong,” he said. “We worship a living God, and that living God leads us into truth.”
As I’ve said before. Gene, exactly what DOES make something wrong?
CS on Tue, August 04, 2009
Peter:
You’re absolutely right. Robinson amazes me with his actions and statements. Did you ever see the video where someone stands up in church in England and calls him out as a heretic and commands him to repent? Quite amazing.
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CS
Henry Jansma on Tue, August 04, 2009
If you want to get a full understanding of the comments the ABC made and the implications for the Anglican Communion, check out “Rowan’s Reflections: Unpacking the Archbishop’s Statement” by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N.T. Wright (in collaboration with ACI and Fulcrum), it’s very good.
http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?ID=453
Jerry on Wed, August 05, 2009
Those who bend, twist and mold God’s Word to say what they want it to say create a god of their liking and worship the false god they have created. God doesn’t like that. How can they not understand? Because their minds have been clouded with their own selfish desires and through their own manufactured concepts of God, introduce confusion into the clarity of His Word. God is not the author of confusion, so who would be behind such a thing?
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