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"Wolves or Tares?", a response to "Living with Tares"
VirtueOnline-News | 3/14/2006 | Fr. William De Arteaga

Posted on 03/14/2006 3:47:54 PM PST by sionnsar

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1 posted on 03/14/2006 3:47:55 PM PST by sionnsar
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2 posted on 03/14/2006 3:48:55 PM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Libs: Celebrate MY diversity! | Iran Azadi 2006)
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To: sionnsar
I have more respect for the heretics and apostates running ECUSA then I do for those for the so called orthodox who can not grasp that by remaining they are giving cover to the lunacy going on there. I think collaborating with heresy in this way is worse than being a heretic. Heretics usually are acting in accord on some level with their conscience. They don't believe they are doing something gravely wrong, or at least have convinced themselves of that. The collaborators know better, but remain anyway.
3 posted on 03/14/2006 4:33:41 PM PST by jecIIny (You faithful, let us pray for the Catechumens! Lord Have Mercy)
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To: sionnsar
I know the people involved in this one. Some friends of mine used to be members there. They left primarily because of this rector, long before Gene Robinson.

He talked a good game (and was prominent at the AAC meetings where I saw him frequently) but when it came time to pay or play he got cold feet.

4 posted on 03/14/2006 6:59:09 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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I don't understand. Are you saying that you friends left because they followed Rev. Bill DeArtega? He seems not just to have talked the talk but walked the walk as well, by leaving and forming a new church.
5 posted on 03/14/2006 7:59:22 PM PST by Talking_Mouse (Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
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6 posted on 03/14/2006 8:19:58 PM PST by Alex Murphy (Colossians 4:5)
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To: Talking_Mouse

I'm quite sure that Mother is referring to Fr. DeArtega's former Episcopal Church rector...the one who tried to convince DeArtega not to leave the ECUSA because of the "All Mighty Dollar" implications.


7 posted on 03/14/2006 11:52:52 PM PST by torqemada ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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To: torqemada

Thanks -- now that makes sense.


8 posted on 03/14/2006 11:59:12 PM PST by Talking_Mouse (Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: jecIIny

I am unable to disagree with your post.


9 posted on 03/15/2006 1:06:58 AM PST by PAR35
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To: jecIIny
"I have more respect for the heretics and apostates running ECUSA then I do for those for the so called orthodox who can not grasp that by remaining"

I guess I'm a bit confused by your post.

Are you indicating that the Orthodox who remain in the church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit in an effort to help the Lord protect that portion of the flock who fail to fully understand the gravity of what is happening around them are somehow worse than the leaders who have strayed from God's church?

Are you saying that the orthodox who find themselves in the heat of spiritual battle with the Lord in an attempt to help guard God's children from the stealing of souls by satan and his minions from the Father are worse than heretics.

If I am reading your post correctly, you should reevaluate your statement and look a the big picture here. We battle not against flesh and blood, but principalities. In other words, this is a spiritual battle.

This is not about homosexuality, nor is it about scriptural authority as much as it is about satan attempting to tear down what is rightfully God's from within, using the very persons that vowed to uphold scripture.

Look around, it's happening in just about EVERY mainline denomination.

Gee wizz, sounds so much like a story I've read in a very well know book.
10 posted on 03/15/2006 6:17:54 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: jecIIny

A friend of my is an ELCA Lutheran. He was in seminary, and almost lost his faith as a result. About the time of my wedding, he fled, and is now working at a retreat.

Despite all that he has seen, he will not leave the ELCA. He wants to help "save" it, although he no longer feels that he could be a pastor in it since he doesn't believe anything the leadership is saying.

I keep asking him why he stays in communion with a group that no longer really believes in the God of the Bible.


11 posted on 03/15/2006 6:33:07 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Talking_Mouse
Not DeArtega - I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough.

I was talking about the man who was the rector of the old church before Vicki Gene even came on the scene. The one who said he was orthodox and went to all the AAC meetings, but decided to stay with the old ECUSA church . . . . with no staff and a handful of congregation. According to my friends, he had issues years ago, and his behavior certainly bears that out.

Better to meet in an office park with a folding table for an altar with the orthodox (which is what the new congregation is doing) than in a multi-million dollar church building with the heretics.

12 posted on 03/15/2006 6:44:02 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: torqemada
Exactly.

I will say in this guy's defense, whatever my friends think of him, I can understand his quandary. He's an older man, probably unemployable in anything else, and he's got a family to support. If he leaves, his pension, insurance, and everything else go down the drain.

That said, what profit it a man if he gain the world and lose his soul?

13 posted on 03/15/2006 6:45:59 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: sionnsar

"They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."


14 posted on 03/15/2006 11:21:36 AM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: sionnsar

"They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."



15 posted on 03/15/2006 12:04:48 PM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: sionnsar

"They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."



16 posted on 03/15/2006 12:05:15 PM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: sionnsar

"They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."



17 posted on 03/15/2006 12:05:58 PM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: sionnsar

"They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."



18 posted on 03/15/2006 12:06:21 PM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: servantboy777
Are you indicating that the Orthodox who remain in the church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit in an effort to help the Lord protect that portion of the flock who fail to fully understand the gravity of what is happening around them are somehow worse than the leaders who have strayed from God's church?

Yes

Are you saying that the orthodox who find themselves in the heat of spiritual battle with the Lord in an attempt to help guard God's children from the stealing of souls by satan and his minions from the Father are worse than heretics.

To the extent that they are in communion with them, yes.  By being in a church or in communion with a church you are accepting its teachings or at least saying there is nothing there that is not compatible with Christianity.

If I am reading your post correctly, you should reevaluate your statement and look a the big picture here. We battle not against flesh and blood, but principalities. In other words, this is a spiritual battle.

The Big Picture is that ECUSA is institutionally apostate. They have repudiated or questioned almost every article of Christian Faith.  When you are a member of ECUSA you are in communion with V. G. Robinson, Bp Spong, and Bp Griswold..  Would you join the Mormon Church to try to save it?  Your position is simply contrary to the ancient canons and teachings of The Church.

This is not about homosexuality, nor is it about scriptural authority as much as it is about satan attempting to tear down what is rightfully God's from within, using the very persons that vowed to uphold scripture.

Satan has used those methods to break this denomination.  The fight must continue, but from outside of it.


Look around, it's happening in just about EVERY mainline denomination.

Hmmm.  Kinda makes you wonder about Protestantism in general.  No?

"That one must not join in prayer with heretics or schismatics." Canon 33 of the Council of Laodicea.

"That one must not accept the blessings of heretics, which are rather misfortunes than blessings." Canon 32 of the Council of Laodicea.

St. Maximus the Confessor said: "Even if the whole universe holds communion with the [heretical] patriarch, I will not communicate with him. For I know from the writings of the holy Apostle Paul: the Holy Spirit declares that even the angels would be anathema if they should begin to preach another Gospel, introducing some new teaching." The Life of St. Maximus the Confessor.

"Chrysostomos loudly declares not only heretics, but also those who have communion with them, to be enemies of God." St. Theodore the Studite, Epistle of Abbot Theophilus.

"All the teachers of the Church, and all the Councils, and all the Divine Scriptures advise us to flee from the heterodox and separate from their communion." St. Mark of Ephesus.

St. John the Almsgiver said: "We shall not escape sharing in that punishment which, in the world to come, awaits heretics, if we defile Orthodoxy and the holy Faith by adulterous communion with heretics." The Life of St. John the Almsgiver.

"Some have suffered final shipwreck with regard to the faith. Others, though they have not drowned in their thoughts, are nevertheless perishing through communion with heresy." St. Theodore the Studite.

 

 

19 posted on 03/15/2006 12:55:45 PM PST by jecIIny (You faithful, let us pray for the Catechumens! Lord Have Mercy)
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To: redgolum
Despite all that he has seen, he will not leave the ELCA. He wants to help "save" it, although he no longer feels that he could be a pastor in it since he doesn't believe anything the leadership is saying.

See my last post for some quotes on that.

20 posted on 03/15/2006 1:02:56 PM PST by jecIIny (You faithful, let us pray for the Catechumens! Lord Have Mercy)
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