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Ready to Walk Apart?

Episcopal bishops reject oversight from "distant" prelates.

Timothy C. Morgan | posted 3/22/2007 09:04AM

The Episcopal Church is at least one step closer to an historic split with the 78-million-member Anglican Communion. The national church's House of Bishops with its left-leaning majority rejected a newly ...

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AC	Posted: March 23, 2007 5:05 AM

To assume that "pro-homosexual religious folks" never read the Bible is a little ridiculous. There are different ways of reading the Bible; even those who claim to take the Bible "literally" do not follow everything in it. They also "pick and choose" the passages that they want, reading them through different lenses. I always find it interesting that people will say that the opposition to homosexuality does not mean that God does not love homosexuals--and then they bring up the idea that they are worthy of death! I am glad that the Bishops finally took a stand against the primates, in essence calling the latter's hand. This has to do with more than homosexuality--it has to do with power, which is what the conservatives want, among other things. Maybe it is time for the Episcopal Church to break with the Anglican Communion, which might be a good thing. Unity for its own sake is an overrated, and often dangerous, concept anyway.

J. Victor Cardoo

Posted: March 22, 2007 3:59 PM


Just one word sums up the Episcopal Church in the USA as it is today - apostasy! Those who are truly born again should get out! No room for compromising the Word of God as the Episcopal Bishops are doing. They have turned their backs on God and God will give them up - Romans 1 vs.18-32 It´s so tragic! I live in Brazil where this kind of problem is just beginning. We need to watch and pray.

gary b.

Posted: March 22, 2007 2:06 PM


I think maybe this coming split will finaly show who the true Bible believing people really are. What's wrong with having a church that wants to be conservative, and follow the Bible's teachings on sin and repentance? It's almost seems that sin has become a bad word in our churchs today. Let the liberal Christians go there own way. Ultimately they will have to answer to God in the end.

Gary	Posted: March 22, 2007 1:48 PM

Susan ... do you read the Bible with accuracy and understanding? In Romans, chapter 1, the lust and actions of those involved in same gender sexuality is not said to be sinful, nor noted as a cause of sin. Rather, St. Paul's argument is in building a deductive means of making a point. The deduction is not about homsexuality. The deduction is about what is natural within the order of God's creation. Just as the earth was considered to be the center of the universe, and flat at that, St. Paul's understanding of natural laws was certainly not as developed as it would later be proved and accepted. Likewise, if you hold up Leviticus, kindly be prepared to hold up the whole holiness code and the applicable punishments ... along with carrying them out, as barbaric as some may seem in a modern world.

David Blontz

Posted: March 22, 2007 11:29 AM

God is so amazing. Here we have the churches of the "third world" telling those who brought them the Christ how to live in the body of Christ. In my United Methodist world we see that the really growing branches of our church are in Africa. In that scenario, God the ole' producer of comic irony, has the conservative "Central Jurisdictions" in league with the more conservative jurisdictions of the US United Methodist Church. And, of course, those elements of conservatism in the United Methodist Church have their root in the Methodist Church South. Who were they and what did they have to do with folk in Africa? God is good. Always several steps ahead.

Ken	Posted: March 22, 2007 11:28 AM


The problem in the Episcopal Church in the USA and the Anglican Church in Canada happened long before the issues of homosexual clergy and "blessing" their "unions." These churches failed the homosexuals long before this by allowing them to receive the Euchaist while living in open sexual sin, thus doing harm to them, and to the church at large.

Susan

Posted: March 22, 2007 10:18 AM

Do any of the pro-homosexual religious folks ever read the Bible? After Jesus came to earth and ascended, his hand-picked apostle Paul wrote (in Romans chapter 1) that men who burned in lust for one another-- and women doing the same--were worthy of death . . . and not only them but those who approved of such behavior. (God, Jesus, Paul and all sincere Christians recognize that homosexuality is abominable and immoral, as stated in the Scriptures--in the Old Testament [Leviticus and other places] and the New Testament [1 Corinthians 6:9, Roman 1:, Jude and other places]) How can any church turn a blind eye to God's stated word? No one is saying that homosexuals aren't loved by God; God just wants them to turn away from their sin and stop fornicating with other men or other women. A parent might love their child who has commited a murder, but can anyone make the argument that the parent wants their child to continue murdering? 1 Cor 6:9 puts homosexuality and murder in the same sentence!

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