Posted on 03/11/2020 6:24:20 AM PDT by fwdude
After years of internal debate, the Episcopal Church is preparing to put one of its bishops on trial, not because he failed to follow biblical teachings but because he took it seriously.
Bishop William Love, who oversees a diocese in Albany, New York, is facing punishment because he is refusing to allow same-sex weddings in the upstate New York churches he oversees.
With his ecclesial trial scheduled for April 21, Bishop Love (pictured below) tells OneNewsNow that he loves and cares for the congregations that fall under his leadership.
"And because I do genuinely love and care for them," he says, "if I believe something is not appropriate, or in violation of God's will as revealed through Holy Scripture, then I would be doing them a great injustice to say it's okay."
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
Sorry but this was the predictable end point for a Church founded by the heretical, decadent and hedonistic Henry VIII.
Uh-oh, he might convert to Catholicism. Oh no!!!
“Sorry but this was the predictable end point for a Church founded by the heretical, decadent and hedonistic Henry VIII”
Well, I could have agreed with you, until Pope Francis...
Coming soon to your local non-Christian Christain church: New ideas in devil worship.
And folks wonder why congregations are shrinking faster than Biden’s brain?
And of course, the question “Is the Pope Catholic” has now become a joke.
What about the endpoint of a church group founded on the movement started by the spirit-filled, ardent followers of God, the Wesleys?
I agree with you about King Henry VIII, but he was more likely the impetus for a splitting off of a church which was already at serious odds with Rome. The move was set in stone already.
The instigator was Anne Boleyn and then Henry had her decapitated! And it was ALL about having a son. He did have a son but he died.
Edward was King Henry VIII’s only legitimate son; his mother, Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour, died 12 days after his birth. Although Edward has traditionally been viewed as a frail child who was never in good health, some recent authorities have maintained that until several years before his death, he was a robust, athletically inclined youth. His tutors found him to be intellectually gifted, a precocious student of Greek, Latin, French, and theology. On January 28, 1547, Henry VIII died and Edward succeeded to the throne.
Henry's six wives:
1. Divorced: Catherine of Aragon (Catholic)
2. Beheaded: Anne Boleyn
3. Died: Jane Seymour
4. Divorced: Anne of Cleves
5. Beheaded: Catherine Howard
6. Survived: Catherine Parr
I agree with your opinion of the heretical outcome of Henry's actions.
How can 2 people of same gender become one flesh? In what way can they be married? And how can the Church encourage behaviors that prevent one from entering into the Kingdom of God? And worse, how can the Church leadership chastise their shepherds for standing their ground on this?
Simple answer: it is no longer a Church, it is a satanic cult.
Bishop Love... the Catholic Church welcomes you.
The Church is NOT a social club, it is the Bride of Christ, and is wholly submissive to Him. Stepping away is a horrible error
“And because I do genuinely love and care for them,” he says, “if I believe something is not appropriate, or in violation of God’s will as revealed through Holy Scripture, then I would be doing them a great injustice to say it’s okay.”
and he stands to be punished for this. Clown World marches on.
God bless this steadfast man.
Amen.
Will the Episcopal church go the same way as the Boy Scouts?
“...predictable end point for a Church founded by the heretical, decadent and hedonistic Henry VIII...”
The church in Rome was just as heretical, decadent and hedonistic as Henry.
Interestingly, Henry didn’t change much. He kept the same clergy, churches, religious orders, etc. He made the bishop of Canterbury the English pope, changed liturgies, prayer book (and eventually the Bible, KJV) to the English language so his people could understand and participate. He just kicked out the Pope and his representatives - cut the umbilical cord.
Sanitized and untrue. He actively persecuted people who did not follow his narrative and seized Church properties, closed monasteries and convents. Yet there were people at the time who had the moral fiber and courage to resist his heresy and decadent tyranny.
Henry VIII was a devout Catholic. He was given the title “Defender of the Faith” by the Pope. He changed very little, keeping even the Latin mass. Afterwards, it was essentially translated to English in the Book of Common Prayer. He did close the monasteries and loot the Church land.
The Anglican / Episcopal Church wound up less Protestant than other Protestant Churches partly because Henry was a Catholic, and partly as a compromise which avoided religious wars. Most of the population of England was Catholic in Henry’s time, and there would have been more serious revolts if he tried to impose Lutheranism or Calvinism.
The purpose of the divorce was to produce a legitimate male heir. Henry VII’s father was a usurper. The interest in an heir was partly from courtiers wondering about what would happen, not from Henry, who obviously wouldn’t be around. Henry VIII had mistresses like most kings, so it may not have been primarily out of lust.He did become pretty decadent after the divorce.
The Roman Catholic Church was extremely corrupt, and the cardinals and bishops were notorious for multiple mistresses and boy lovers.
There weren’t any other male descendants of Henry VII and Henry VII and Henry VIII had had anyone in England with a better claim executed. So courtiers and aristocrats were worried about a foreign prince claiming the throne, which is mainly why Henry had support for his first divorce. It wasn’t primarily about lust.
Not following scripture is a formula for disaster.
But where does the Bible call "The Church" the "Bride of Christ"? Nowhere. New Jerusalem in Revelation 21 is likened to a bride:
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:1-2)
This is all believers during all ages.
That abomination which calls itself "The Church" is not the bride, it as a harlot:
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. (Revelation 17:1-9)
I know of one place which consists of seven hills/mountains (mons) and that is Rome.
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