[pgyanke]

> "Better to live a lie until you can make other arrangements I suppose."

Priests are supposed to guide the faithful in their faith. Living a lie until you can make other arrangements is absolutely heretical and sinful. Such people need our prayers. They also need to be removed from positions where they can warp other's views of their religion.

Having an opinion is fine. Disbelieving your own faith is beyond the pale for a practicing priest and he should cease practicing.

[Protagoras]

Living a lie until you can make other arrangements is absolutely heretical and sinful.

Yes you are right, every clergyman should immediately resign the precise moment that such doubts occur to them. And if they later discard the idea and regain their senses, they could easily just return. < /sarcasm>

The correct course of action would be to take a sabbatical and search your soul, then take the proper course of action based on what decision you came to.

Such people need our prayers.

Amen

[Marysecretary]

It's kind of like a doctor who doesn't believe the medicine or the operation will help you but they go ahead and do it anyway. Out, out, I say.

[Just mythoughts]

To those who believe this explains why IPeter 4:17 "For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God: .............

However, the rest of use won't be able to use them as an excuse for our own ignorance. Christ said many times "It is written" and "Have you not read" Based upon what has been posted is a sign of the times and Christ was to be a "stumbling block", don't fret fellow Christians these things must be. Be confident in faith and yet thankful that things are unfolding just as written in the Old and in the New, and as those thrown into the firey furnace were not singed, God promised to protect his own. "I will not leave thee or forsake thee IF". Christ set the example, fear them not. By the way the first two chapters of Luke lays out clearly for those who are interested, the time frame of the conception and birth of Christ.

Queen Elizabeth's duty is protector of the "Faith".

It is sad but predicted that so many have spent so much time it trying to dis-prove the written word just to make a living, I believe that they are referred to as "wolves in sheep clothing". Just their lot in life. Be of good cheer and "don't cast pearls before swine", trading insults does not reslove anything, stay in the Word and be comforted that no matter what anyone says God is in control.