Conservatives to draw charter for Episcopalians

Washington Times ^ | 1/19/04 | Julia Duin

[kattracks]

Episcopal conservatives, making good on their threats to form an ecclesiastical and legal shelter for theologically orthodox believers, meet today and tomorrow in a Dallas suburb to hammer out the details.

About 120 people, including bishops and representatives from 12 dioceses, will gather at Christ Episcopal Church in Plano to draw a charter for a "Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes."

[Agnes Heep]

I thought their charter was the Bible. I guess that's not quite good enough these days.

[MissouriForBush]

I just wish we could all go back to the traditional King James version of the Bible, which my Grandmother read to me as a child.

[Siamese Princess]

I thought their charter was the Bible. I guess that's not quite good enough these days.

Not politically correct enough, at least as originally interpreted.

[txzman]

Actually, the leaders of this group (I am not Episcopal) are very Bible focused. The host of this organization - the church in Plano, Texas - is Bible based and focused on new converts. And although I belong to a non-denominational, Bible centered church, I could easily worship at this one.

[txzman]

Actually, the New American Standard Bible (NASB) is considered a more accurate translation of the Greek Septuagint than even the King James, although the King James has its finer points in relation to the Hebrew.

The problem of the KJV, IMHO, is that the archaic language used (yes, not Old English, or Middle English) creates many, many areas of confusion regarding the sense of how a word was used in either the Hebrew or the Greek.