Posted on 08/21/2007 4:56:54 AM PDT by jacknhoo
The mere fact that the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson is the Episcopal Church's first openly homosexual bishop ensures that he will be a media celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. To a great extent, he has become a symbol to both conservatives and liberals in contemporary Christianity.
To conservatives, Bishop Robinson represents a near-total theological meltdown. An entire universe of the theological principles and doctrines of orthodox Christianity must be jettisoned or redefined before an openly homosexual bishop becomes imaginable. In order for this to happen, the tradition of the church must be sidelined and the authority of Scripture must be undermined.
For liberals, Bishop Robinson is a sign of hope. The liberal wing of institutional Christianity represents a call for theological revolution in order, they would argue, to liberate Christianity from repressive doctrines and an oppressive tradition. The election of Gene Robinson as the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire is, they sense, the shape of things to come.
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A country
A marriage
A company
The way to destroy anything is to trash, deny, discard and belittle that which made it possible.
All in the name of Progress.
Didn't know the word of God was subject to change.
It is sad, liberals don’t believe its the word of God.
Religious progressives:
What a compromising Spirit this is, Gene Robinson is out of line with Biblical Teachings and Sound Doctrine, instead of being encourage in repentence and healing, he is ordained and then elevated.
This is what happens when a Church’s Foundation’s be Removed, the Scripture is weighty indeed when it asks the rhetorical question of:
“If the foundation be removed, what are the righteous to do”?
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