THANKS. The old-school seems closer to Christianity, even Catholicism, than the PCUSA.
I remember that there was a move to allow Catholic priests to marry. The pundits went out and interviewed wives of those married ministers asking their opinion of married vicars and such.
To the ONE, they answered the same, that their husband simply did NOT have enough time in a day or week to be a good "father" to his flock, husband to his wife and father to his children. The UNmarried, celibate priest was the ONLY sensible way to be.
Of course, there are sinners among those priests, since they are human beings and human beings DO sin, but their celibacy DOES allow them all the advantages of tending to their flock.
But HOMOSEXUALS as men-of-the-cloth? NEVER.
A man MAY have homosexuals feelings but he NEVER has to ACT on them and can always pray to God to take away those feelings he has. He may also be NON-sexual. It doesn't matter since he vows to be celibate. He doesn't take vows of poverty, like nuns do, but he does vow to be celibate.
Women priests/vicars? The Catholic Church made the active decision to follow the Hebrew legacy of male men-of-the- cloth, and have stuck to it. So, for the Catholic Church MALE priests will not be changed. That's a good thing, I believe.
The Orthodox, Ultra Orthodox, Conservative and Progressive Judaisms MUST have some differences about male/female rabbis. I don't know.
I did go to a "batmitzva" once, where the daughter of an acquaintance of mine was getting the female version of a barmitzva. I had never been to one. It was held in a building that was used generally as a Protestant church, but there were no crucifixes or crosses, but it did have the "church-shaped" windows. It was interesting.
As for abortion, I CANNOT fathom the reality of ANY man or woman giving consent to an abortion. Killing one of God's most innocent and vulnerable creations HAS to doom that person to Satan's company for eternity. It HAS to be one of the worst sins in all creation.
I recall reading about women who, at the time for them to give birth, were told that the birth would kill either HER or her BABY. Those women always choose to DIE and to let their baby live. THAT is love. What mother wouldn't do that?
I do believe that if our secular media HAD found a woman who allowed herself to live and her baby to die, it would have made national headlines.
How could ANY woman OR man allow the murder of her/his own flesh and blood? The baby's heartbeat starts at about six weeks. How can ANYONE, parent or doctor, still the heartbeat of such an innocent? I don't get it.
Thanks for your feedback, Bryanw92.
I didn't even know what the "Westminster Confession of Faith" was. I had to "google it." VERY interesting.
Google says that Queen Elizabeth, at 89 years old, is still the "Supreme Governor of the Church of England." I guess ole Charles will be leader ONE of these years.
Popes and kings. At least the pope is elected by the cardinals. No "birthright" there.
>>I didn’t even know what the “Westminster Confession of Faith” was. I had to “google it.” VERY interesting.
I didn’t either when I was switching from Methodist to PCA. But, whenever I started pressing my Methodist pastor for some standards of what we believed, he’d always tell me that “we aren’t confessional”. He said it like it was a bad thing.
Turns out that for a liberal, a Confession is a bad thing because it limits the ways that they can superimpose their politics onto other people’s faith. It keeps the clergy honest.