I don't mean to be unecumenical, but why should anybody care what a bunch of men who are only laymen in reality, think, say or do, no matter how they are dressed?
They are not appointed by God to their positions and their "ordinations" are merely like children playing house with each other.
There is only one, true Church, and the Anglican/Episcopalian one isn't the one.
Oh yes, you do. why should anybody care what a bunch of men who are only laymen in reality, think, say or do, no matter how they are dressed?
You characterize our bishops and archbishops as nothing more than laymen masquerading as divinely appointed clergy. How dare you?! You have impugned holy men who can trace their ordination through unbroken succession to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Your arrogance and audacity are an affront to the Gospel!
"True " church? I remember a division of the house in Constantinople a few centuries ago. "True " church indeed! I remember trials and public executions for those who dared speak out against sin in the camp and call for reform and repentance (does "Holy" Inquisition ring a bell?). "True" church indeed! I also remember a certain priest who nailed 99 theses to a cathedral door a few hundred years back. His reward was persecution. "True" church indeed! The bride of Christ (whatever human name she bears) is far from spotless and her dress is torn and wrinkled. She has played the harlot and is thoroughly bloody. Only true repentance and a returning submission to the sovereign lordship of Jesus Christ will cleanse her from her sin. Judgment has begun in the house of God and it is far from over. "True" church indeed!
Nor has it ever claimed to be. Your beef is with another worldwide communion that makes that statement. And some days I think they do a better job of it!
Scripturally speaking, the Anglican bishops are the only valid bishops in the world- 1st Timothy 3:1-7. As St Paul the Apostle writes, having a well managed household is a prerequisite and a qualification for the episcopacy. The Apostle reasons: "if a man cannot manage his own household, then how can he manage God's?" Because the Catholic and Orthodox bishops are monastics, they do not posses the necessary qualifications to oversee God's house, according to St Paul.