Posted on 01/12/2007 12:32:54 PM PST by rogernz
this just makes me laugh....
Of course there's no proof...that's why it's called belief. Some have it, some don't, and it differs with the individuals.
"Bishop Richard Randerson admits that his spiritual views may be seen by some as heresy."
They are heresy plain and simple. He should resign his position of bishop or be removed.
He sounds like a man who ought to be honest with himself and his flock and go out and find honest work. I know that that's probably going to be hard to do after 42 years as a priest, and I'm sure that being dean of Holy Trinity and assistant bishop of Aukland is a pretty cushy gig, but I'm sure that a man of his abilities should be able to figure something out.
They are saving removals for the real dangerous ones, the pastors and bishops who believe Jesus actually died for their sins.
He cannot ask for others to respect him and then use such disgustingly disrespectful language.
He is an ass and not a serious person.
I went to the Auckland Cathedral's Christmas Midnight service which Randerson gave the sermon. It was so mushy and wishy-washy that I instantly see it myself why the Anglican church is in freefall.
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The problem is, as C.S. Lewis said long ago, he can believe anything he wants to . . .
. . . but he can't keep on taking money from the Church if he doesn't believe in what the Church teaches.
It's fundamentally dishonest and treaacherous . . . like being an executive in a corporation and working for a competitor at the same time.
" He is an ass and not a serious person."
Oh please do not insult the good creature the ass.
Remember Balam's ass saw an angel even when Balam did not. And it was a ass colt that had the honor of carrying our Lord into Jerusalem. And no doubt it was a hard working ass that Mary rode on her journey to Bethlehem.
The ass is a hard working, loyal creature. Stubborn yes but if well treated and given care very willing to any task given it.
The Archbiship on the other hand is a mushroom. Living in the dark and surviving on whatever s**t someone throws his way.
"The poison of heresy is not too dangerous when it is preached only from outside the Church. Many times more perilous is that poison which is gradually introduced into the organism in larger and larger doses by those who, in virtue of their position, should not be poisoners but spiritual physicians." Metropolitan Philaret
Hasn't he studied the 10 Commandments, especially #2, Thou shall not make God into a graven image.
God is who He is, not who we want him to be.
"If you're going to be an agnostic, you might as well reap the benefit of sleeping in on Sunday morning."
No, no, you've got it all wrong!
If you're going to be an agnostic, you might as well reap the benefit of sleeping AROUND on Sunday morning!
It's almost odd that it's the English-speaking churches with the troubles -- US, Canada, CofE, NZ and possibly some of Australia.
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How dare this man even claim to be a Christian!
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