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To: jo kus
Ask an Anglican if they believe the Bible.

FWIW, if I learned anything as an Episcopal priest it's that if you asked most of what was then "us" and is now "them" if they believed in the Bible they'd start by saying that it depended on what you meant by "believe," and go on to say that Anglicanism was supported on the three-legged stool of Scripture, Reason, and Tradition. To this, while I was in seminary people who knew neither that four legs will usually wobble or what "reason" means were trying to add the fourth leg of "experience".

15,276 posted on 05/26/2007 10:58:21 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.)
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To: Mad Dawg
FWIW, if I learned anything as an Episcopal priest...

Ah, I'd like to hear your story someday!

while I was in seminary people who knew neither that four legs will usually wobble or what "reason" means were trying to add the fourth leg of "experience".

Yes, people of this day and age oftentimes will take what they find as convenient towards their own projects. Nothing wrong with "experience" per sec, but without an objective grounding - the Church - it is highly subjective and we have very little proof to show it is from God or not.

Regards

15,277 posted on 05/26/2007 1:00:33 PM PDT by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)
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