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.
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.
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.
How dare this man even claim to be a Christian!
me and my university friends go to the catholic parish just down the road from the anglican cathedral and we have a little plot to rename it 'Our Lady of the Holy Trinity' - that is after we turn it into a catholic church. :-)
so he believes in things that are seen, yet not in things unseen. Well, I guess that is where FAITH comes in. The Spirit does not seem to be in him, "giving witness with his spirit" so to speak. He seems to be something of an intellectual lightweight. Perhaps that is not fair, but that is the impression I get.
If God does not exist, and Christ is not risen from the dead, all priests might as well simply pack up and go home. There is absolutely no point to a church without faith.