[governsleastgovernsbest]

"You can't elevate a piece of historical scripture to give it a modern significance it does not have," he said. "The Bible is the story written by us about our love affair with God," he said.

This is the essence of the issue. Rather than representing the immutable word of God, Robinson looks at the Bible as man-made, something to be interpreted and changed in accordance with "modern" thinking.

[Ronin]

Does the Bible call eating shellfish an abonimition?

[camle]

"the bible means what i say it means.
the bible is inviolate except those parts that i say are outdated.
the bible is the rule and guide of whatever i interpret it to be.
my ordination is more important than the church itself.
i am more important than the church itself
i am god."

that's what he sounds like to me.

[Cincinatus]

This is the essence of the issue. Rather than representing the immutable word of God, Robinson looks at the Bible as man-made, something to be interpreted and changed in accordance with "modern" thinking

If this is true, then most of the current Episcopal clergy should be defrocked, as most of them believe exactly this.

I thought the issue was making an unrepentant sinner a bishop, with empahsis on the "unrepentant."