[sionnsar]

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Speak the truth in love. Eph 4:15

[madprof98]

We can deal with shades of gray, we can deal with paradox and ambiguity without feeling that we are being unfaithful.

One of those nuanced churches.

[secret garden]

Judaism and Islam at its best have the same core values
He is absolutely nuts, isn't he?

[i.l.e.]

The Anglican tradition has always ... been a tradition in which widely divergent points of view have been held together not by one point of view capitulating to another but by common prayer, focusing beyond opinions on the person of Christ.

Sounds like the ECUSA has built and is supporting the stairway to hell in order to promote diversity and tolerance with others.

[Logophile]

Isn't it ironic that people can overlook Jesus' words about divorce and remarriage and claim biblical orthodoxy and become hysterical over a reference in the letter to the Romans about homosexual behavior?

That is an interesting reply from the bishop. He seems to be saying that if some people find it difficult to obey one of God's commandments, they are free to violate all of the other commandments.

Jesus said that the married couple, "are no more twain, but one flesh." He made it clear that God does not approve of divorce: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. " (Matthew 19:6).

Nevertheless, Jesus also said, "Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so." (Matthew 19:8) Divorce was allowed because people were not always able to live up to the Godly ideal of marriage.

I do not recall any similar allowance for homosexuality; everywhere it is mentioned in the Bible, sodomy is condemned in the strongest language. Moses did not allow it, as he did divorce. Indeed, the death penalty was prescribed for sodomy (Lev. 18:22), but not for divorce.

Frankly, I am surprised that the good bishop would not know any of this. I am even more surprised that he would describe as "hysterical" those who take the God's commandment seriously.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

If the Episcopal Church USA is healing, it's because those that actually believe in Christ have left, are leaving or planning to leave for more orthodox pastures and no longer wish to be shepherded by the likes of the US Episcopal church, I suspect.

[sitetest]

"...Since presiding over the ordination of an openly gay bishop, Griswold has struggled to keep his 2.3 million member denomination..."

Well, maybe 1.9 mill?

This week??