Posted on 03/18/2024 6:48:31 PM PDT by Morgana
An Episcopal priest competing in a Jeopardy Tournament failed to advance to the finals, the result of falling badly behind and also being stumped by a question on the New Testament, according to the Episcopal News Service.
David Sibley is the LGBTQ+ affirming rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Walla Walla, Washington, who recently participated in a Jeopardy Tournament.
He previously competed in 2022, where he won $79,098 through four straight episodes. During that contest, he failed to answer a $1000 question: “It’s the ascension heavenward by true Christians both living and dead at Christ’s second coming.”
Rather than a buzz in “What is the rapture,” he let the answer pass him by, later explaining on Reddit:
“Here’s the thing—I don’t believe in the rapture. In fact, most Christians don’t hold the rapture as a doctrine and haven’t for most of church history—the literal reading of Revelation is a product of the modern era, not the patristic era. As written, I thought the clue’s correct response required “Christians” to mean all Christians (or at least all Christians other than tiny splinter groups). It was too late when I got to what they wanted.”
However, he was never in serious contention during this match, with a competitor taking an early insurmountable lead. During ‘Final Jeopardy’ the category was ‘New Testament,’ and the contestants were asked: “This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for ‘The Comedy of Errors.'”
Sibley guessed “Corinth,” whereas the correct answer was “What is Ephesus.”
OF course he does not know the Bible!! Sodom and Gomorrah anyone?
Curious - are there any Episcopal ministers who are NOT gay?
...I wonder that about the Pope too?
Sure. At least half are dykes, lesbos, and butch gals.
He ain’t gay he’s just a Judas which is just as worse.
Resurrection
I've run into the same hogwash from liberal "Christians" who don't want to take Genesis or anything else literally. Yes, the early church did take the Bible perspicuously. The occasional exceptions are just that, exceptions. Leftists just think they can invent their own reality with themselves as gods determining all things according to their own whims.
Yes, but he’s right about the “Rapture”.
Reads like a Babylon Bee article. What is the one book that Episcopal priests are ignorant about? The Bible.
The General Judgment.
Idiot thought Corinth is in Turkey. Yeah, real scholar there.
You don’t have to believe in the Rapture to know what it is. Any alleged prelate should know this.
Was it a question about adultery?
Find rapture in the Bible. I’ll give you ten years.
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This Jeopardy "answer" is theologically messed up and therefore invalid. The Rapture is not the second coming of Jesus.
At least the boys don't have to worry about having a rector in the rectum. Unlike boys at a catholic church.
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