Posted on 07/07/2008 4:12:34 PM PDT by Grig
The Church of England's ruling body has voted to go ahead with the ordination of women bishops.
But the Church was facing a damaging split after members of its General Synod threw out compromise proposals on females in senior ranks.
All safeguards demanded by traditionalists were rejected.
Sky News correspondent Mike McCarthy said: "It's a historic and very significant moment for the Church of England.
"The real test now is how many people will leave (the Church). There are certainly going to be many wrestling with their consciences."
The Synod members voted to approve work on a national statutory code to accommodate those within the Church who object to women bishops.
But the Synod rejected compromise plans for new "super bishops" to cater for objectors - and also their preferred option of creating new dioceses.
The decision to go ahead with work on the code came after more than six hours of debate by the General Synod, which saw extraordinary scenes, with one bishop in tears as he spoke of being "ashamed" of the Church of England.
The Rt Rev Stephen Venner, Bishop of Dover, who is in favour of women bishops said: "I have to say, Synod, for the first time in my life, I feel ashamed.
"We have talked for hours about wanting to give an honourable place to those who disagree.
"We have been given opportunities for both views to flourish. We have turned down every, almost realistic opportunity for those who are opposed to flourish."
The Church of Rome is looking at potentially millions of new members defecting from this dying, apostate body. And I say that as a Protestant, because I consider it good news.
Ruth Gledhill has been live blogging the Synod. You can read her blog and the comments here
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2008/07/women-bishops-t.html#more
“... they’ve voted to expand upon their apostasy.”
What apostasy would that be?
Women priests.
Not being a theologian, why is women priests an apostasy?
1 Timothy.
The election of women to the priesthood always leads to increasing liberalism and ultimately the rejection of scripture in favor of false doctrine. Always. This is why Paul wrote what he did in 1 Timothy.
If England’s church needed any more help in meeting total collapse, this ought to do it.
My church split from the Vineyard fellowship because they started allowing women to be pastors.
My fear was exactly what you stated that when women become pastors, the churches become more liberal and do reject scripture. That’s what I’ve seen in the Methodist church and others that I have been involved in.
Now if you asked me why, I would suggest (and I have no data to back it up, just personal observation and suspicion) that this all happens because the vast majority of women entering the clergy are lesbians (even if temporarily closeted ones). Therefore these once conservative denominations are destroyed by the admittance of a radical lesbian contingent into the clergy of the denomination. This out of some misguided notion of "fairness", and with utter disregard for God's Word (1 Timothy).
Just so. Historically and empirically, aggressive feminist revisionists have served as a wedge to open the door for the militant homosexual lobby-- repeatedly observed and confirmed across the board.
As my formerly Anglican, now a Catholic Priest said, “Sometimes the best journeys start with phrases like, “Let’s get the heck out of here!”
I think that some of these Anglicans have changed their bottom line so many times, that they can no longer see the time to leave was ages ago.
Within the next 10 years you will see widespread odinations of women and/or gays in many Protestant denominations.
The first thing women clergy do is chase all the straight men and traditional families right out of the church, leaving it ripe for the gays and lesbians.
I don’t care what the Anglican church does.
I quit going to church because all the churches I went to were getting too feminist in teachings.
It is a misunderstanding of the entire theology of Holy Orders, and represents a replacement of Christianity with Marxism (e.g., the priesthood and episcopacy are about “power”, thus women must be ordained, or they are excluded from said power...classic Marxist thought).
That was a pretty good account. God bless those priests that spoke up in the comment section who were frustrated and angry.
Freegards
I am not sure if the female leadership causes liberalism, or the liberalism causes feminist leadership.
Theological issues aside, I could tolerate women clergy if they were orthodox. But it never happens that way. Orthodox women do not want to be priests and bishops.
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