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Episcopal Bishop calls individual salvation 'heresy,' 'idolatry'
One News Now ^ | 7/9/2009 | Staff

Posted on 07/09/2009 6:03:13 AM PDT by IbJensen

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To: IbJensen

Is she incoherently trying to frame a modernist Pelagian type heresy? After A. Comte, the individual is subordinate to the ‘community’, and so perhaps in her view the attainment of God’s grace can only be obtained by the community and not by individual effort.


21 posted on 07/09/2009 6:12:13 AM PDT by Ozone34 ("There are only two philosophies: Thomism and bullshitism!" -Leon Bloy)
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To: IbJensen; TaraP; Quix; Jo Nuvark

The article said — ANAHEIM, CA - Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says it’s “heresy” to believe that an individual can be saved through a sinner’s prayer of repentance.

Ummm..., I don’t think someone has been reading their Bible lately... LOL...

The Bible says...

9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.

13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Romans 10:9-13


22 posted on 07/09/2009 6:14:04 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Jackson57

Any “Christian” organization that puts a person like that in power is corrupt to the core. She’s just a symptom of a much larger problem.


23 posted on 07/09/2009 6:14:59 AM PDT by DB
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To: uptoolate

Great place to post that scripture!


24 posted on 07/09/2009 6:15:15 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholics voted based upon the teachings of the church, there would be no abortion and no Obomba.)
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To: sionnsar

How is this to start your morning devotions?


25 posted on 07/09/2009 6:15:24 AM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: IbJensen
the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals

Socialism in Salvation.

26 posted on 07/09/2009 6:16:57 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: P8riot

You said — In all actuality, it is not the prayer that saves you, it is the substitutionary death of Christ and his resurrection. The prayer just acknowledges what He has already done, but it’s not heresy or idolatry by a longshot.

This is an incomplete answer as it takes both, because *without* the individual confession to it (per Romans 10:9-10), a person is *not* saved, no matter the fact that the substitutionary death of Christ and His resurrection has occurred.

So, no, it’s *not* on the basis of — only — the “substitutionary death of Christ and His resurrection” that one is saved...


27 posted on 07/09/2009 6:19:01 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: IbJensen

“Jefferts Schori answers a Chu question about whether Jesus is the only way to heaven by saying that believing that way would “put God in an awfully small box.”


28 posted on 07/09/2009 6:20:26 AM PDT by beefree (AMERICA BLESS GOD, VOTE PALIN.)
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To: DB

I absolutely agree with you. This Episcopal woman is just another “community organizer” letting her “flock” know that they need to go through her to get their “benefits”. The message seems to be that individuals cannot be saved, but the community as a whole. And in order to do so, the “community organizer” will lead the way.

And, please (not you specifically) before the Catholic bashers start coming out, the Pope did NOT promote socialism in his recent encyclical. The media is spinning and twisting what he said.


29 posted on 07/09/2009 6:20:41 AM PDT by Jackson57
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To: IbJensen
According to Schori, it is heresy to believe that an individual's prayer can achieve a saving relationship with God.

Hmmm...Seemed to work for this guy...

40 But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” 43 And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:40-43

30 posted on 07/09/2009 6:22:52 AM PDT by opus86
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To: uptoolate

hey genius, there are a lot of conscienceless men out there and I a woman will instruct them in court if need be about what their obligations are to the women they impregnated when it was “a good time” and the babies they created. Furthermore, you may stfu it has nothing to with anatomy and everything to do with a godly developed character


31 posted on 07/09/2009 6:23:10 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Star Traveler; P8riot
You said — In all actuality, it is not the prayer that saves you, it is the substitutionary death of Christ and his resurrection. The prayer just acknowledges what He has already done, but it’s not heresy or idolatry by a longshot.

Emphasizing the need to say the "sinner's prayer" or to put up your hand or come bawling down the aisle at a revival meeting is really nothing more than modern day Pelagianism--a belief that our speech or actions can be the cause of our salvation.

32 posted on 07/09/2009 6:23:19 AM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini.)
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As I said, it takes *both*....


This is an incomplete answer as it takes both, because *without* the individual confession to it (per Romans 10:9-10), a person is *not* saved, no matter the fact that the substitutionary death of Christ and His resurrection has occurred.


Post #27...


33 posted on 07/09/2009 6:25:36 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Star Traveler

Group rights vs. individual rights - again.


34 posted on 07/09/2009 6:27:54 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: opus86
Oops...Seemed to work for this guy too...

13"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' 14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." Luke 18:13-14

35 posted on 07/09/2009 6:27:59 AM PDT by opus86
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To: Jackson57

As an Episcopalian of over 40 years standing, I was already hanging by a thread when this joke of a Bishop was elected.

I was already aware of her “Jesus is not the only way to salvation” babblings but this has done it for me.

I will be joining others who have found a true Anglican home.


36 posted on 07/09/2009 6:29:03 AM PDT by wayoverthehill
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To: reg45

Well..., as I see it, the Bible has never framed salvation as an issue between group rights and individual rights. But, perhaps there are “people” who ignore the Bible who may wish to frame the issue in a different way than what the Bible does (and says about it...).


37 posted on 07/09/2009 6:29:47 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Star Traveler

We who are saved are saved from the foundation of the world. Our prayer through the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit, and the resultant faith to believe allows us to confess this faith to God and before others, acknowledging the provision of His Son. However, if God has determined to save me, and I never acknowledge it through prayer I am still saved, because He has predestined me to be so. Therefore, it is entirely up to God, and not to the individual. Do children who die in infancy, whether by natural causes or otherwise, forfeit their salvation because they cannot pray “the sinner’s prayer”? God effects our salvation. We have absolutely nothing to do with it.


38 posted on 07/09/2009 6:29:47 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: P8riot

Bottom line here... you don’t do what Romans 10:9-10 says — you’re *not saved*...


39 posted on 07/09/2009 6:31:06 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: IbJensen

she’s pretty spooky anti-christ looking in her bish’ robes & miter & staff-— there ya’ go..the fall of western civilization

makes me shibber


40 posted on 07/09/2009 6:32:33 AM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
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