Posted on 06/19/2006 1:10:35 PM PDT by SmithL
What a twisted logic this woman is using. Why would God create someone homosexual to condemn them for an act He deems an abomination? That would make God a pretty cruel entity.
I'm pretty tired of hearing liberal Christians spout the mantra "I believe that homosexuality is not a sin. I believe that God created them that way.. blah.. blah.. blah.. Who cares what you believe. It's what God says that is most important.
Speaking of which, looks like she's also ignoring Scripture that says she isn't to be a Bishop.
Asked how she reconciled her position on homosexuality with specific passages in the Bible declaring sexual relations between men an abomination, Jefferts Schori said the Bible was written in a very different historical context by people asking different questions.
"The Bible has a great deal to teach us about how to live as human beings. The Bible does not have so much to teach us about what sorts of food to eat, what sorts of clothes to wear -- there are rules in the Bible about those that we don't observe today," she said.
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Boy, I could post a bunch of scripture but it was written in a "a very different historical context by people asking different questions" so I won't belabor ya with it.
There is nothing new under the sun.. yada yada..
Methinks she is in for a big surprise when the fat lady sings.. jmho
Using the same reasoning that Schiori is using bestiality is not a sin because the primitive authors of the Bible were living in another less enlightened age. (sarcasm)
Leonard Ravenhill?
Ooooooo...now that takes me back
And, heterosexual sodomy is no less an abomination than homosexual sodomy - so if you're guilty of sexually abusing a woman in such a fashion...
KNOCK IT THE HELL OFF!!
No, you're on the money...He describes this in the Gospels when speaking of adultery...same concept for the homosexual lust as a heterosexual lust...
Amen to your statement...My jaw dropped when I read the article...What can one say to this? So sad to see the souls of many being pulled in the absolute wrong direction...
What Church? The Church of Satan?
Well, it's either God makes mistakes by putting male psyches in female bodies and vice-versa or some folks are whistling past the graveyard as hard as they can.
Not to sound too judgemental, the Liberal Christian have wrecked the Episcopal Chuch in America,this is no longer a Church in the strictest sense of the word.
I'm reminded of when The Gay Gene (Robinson) said that he felt that penile-anal contact with his "partner" was tantamount to a sacrament.
Pending schism not withstanding--this denomination in reality is already split between goats and sheep.
There are still plenty of good people in the church that, in my opinion, have their heads in the sand. I had to go where I could worship honestly.
Quite right. It is no longer a church. Anglicans & Episcopalians prayed for some clarity to come out of this General Convention. As the old saying goes...you have to be careful what you pray for. Sometimes God answers our prayers in ways we never could imagine &, although He always works for good, it doesn't always relieve our personal suffering.
Schori's election provides an important bit of clarity, not necessarily to the rest of the Anglican world, but to every Episcopalian who continues to sit on the fence...if they will only have ears to hear. By Schori's own words, the Episcopal Church USA has moved beyond heresy to apostasy. It is no longer a Christian "church" fulfilling its commision to spread The Gospel - it is, rather, a fully secularized institution whose "first priority" is to effect temporal socio-political change. Schori makes that clear in her statements to the press....
"Jefferts Schori told members of the press on Sunday, "One of the great actions of this General Convention has been to name 'Justice and Peace' as the first priority of this church." "Justice and Peace" includes promotion of the eight Millennial Development Goals of the United Nations, yet its prioritization makes evangelism a low priority for the already shrinking mainline church."
There it is, folks. The ECUSA has become nothing more than a political action group cloaked in the trappings of pseudo-Christian ritual - sort of a cross between the National Organization of Women & the Masonic Lodge! Sadly...tragically...most of the poor slobs warming the pews in their ECUSA "churches" haven't a clue that they have been co-opted by the radical left, who don't give a tinker's damn about their spiritual health in this life or their eternal salvation for the next. Is it any wonder that the Anglican Primates in Africa are now sending missionaries to the United States?
Why would a Christian belong to the Episcopal Church?
Well, we were warned in 2 Timothy 3(the Apostasy Predicted) that would happen during this age. Accepting homosexuality is just part of the whole stage of the so-called "Christian" church. Unfortunately, it will only get worse.
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