Posted on 07/08/2023 9:36:30 AM PDT by lowbridge
Even people who aren’t otherwise familiar with the Bible tend to know it, and often on movies and television, when we see someone praying, it’s the Lord’s Prayer.
We find the most familiar text of the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 in the King James Version:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
But one leader in the Church of England has come to the conclusion that the Lord’s Prayer is “problematic,” and I bet you can guess why.
“The archbishop of York has suggested that opening words of the Lord’s Prayer, recited by Christians all over the world for 2,000 years, may be ‘problematic’ because of their patriarchal association,” the Guardian reports.
“I know the word ‘father’ is problematic for those whose experience of earthly fathers has been destructive and abusive, and for all of us who have laboured rather too much from an oppressively patriarchal grip on life,” Stephen Cottrell said in his opening address to a meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod.
As you could probably expect, Cottrell’s offhand remark created some ripples. According to one female Anglican priest, Cottrell “put his finger on an issue that’s a really live issue for Christians and has been for many years.” She continued, “The big question is, do we really believe that God believes that male human beings bear his image more fully and accurately than women? The answer is absolutely not.”
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The Episcopal “church” is a cult. Glad I left 20 years ago.
The serpent in the Garden is still active today.
“According to one female Anglican priest, …….”
I think we found the problem.
He was circumcised and He called God His Father.
Does he think they didn’t have bad fathers during Jesus’ time? The solution is not to dumb down the Scriptures but to make the effort to explain and demonstrate what good fathership is and show how this applies to God the Father.
What I want to know is why in this article does God speak like Shakespeare?;-)
We have a weekly Bible study with some friends, in which we are going through a little book, called, “Kneeling, We Pray”, written, about a hundred years ago, by a Church of England Vicar. A more Godly and Scripturally accurate book, you would be hard pressed to find. What a shame that a once Godly church has fallen so low. (No slurs about the evil king who founded it; it became a great denomination, in spite of it.)
There is a conservative breakaway group from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.
https://anglicanchurch.net
Let me guess, they want to change it to “Our they/them who lives somewhere “
Sounds like a moral atheist has more Christianity than what some “churches” teach nowadays.
Yikes!!! This dude is challenging words that literally came out of the mouth of the SON OF MAN.
Fake churches have a problem with the Bible
What does the Duke of Earl have to say?
Makes sense for such a woketard when you realize he probably can’t - or won’t be allowed to - define “father.”
There is a conservative breakaway group from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.
https://anglicanchurch.net
I’m not surprised. God always has a remnant.
If you have a “problem” with the Our Father, because, say, you had an abusive earthly father, the appropriate action is not to change the prayer, it is to go talk to somebody so you can get over yourself.
The atheist would at least be honest about what he believes.
I thought a woman priest was a priestess?
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