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Posted on 01/02/2004 10:32:41 AM PST by ahadams2
Friday, January 2, 2004
Godly Anglicans booted
Jamey Bennett says that godly Anglicans need to act now
This is stupid. It’s ridiculous the apostasy that so-called bishops have been getting away with.
While the Anglican Church in the US is still experiencing tremors and shocks from the damnable moves of certain Episcopal clergy in consecrating the covenant-breaking and Godless sodomite bishop Gene Robbins in November, the Canadian Anglican wing has made its own contributions to apostasy. According to the Washington Times,[1] an Anglican bishop, the “Most Reverend” Michael Ingham, in Vancouver (who had began supporting homosexual “unions” in 2002 and blessing them starting in May) offered a Merry Christmas to a godly and faithful congregation. Four days before Christmas, he “closed a small Church…over its opposition to the Church's approval of homosexual ‘marriages.’” The holy Reverend Wagner sadly gave a proverbial middle finger to the bishop and held services at his home anyway -- for 22 of the faithful.
The Anglican Church is facing a number of problems worldwide, but especially in the United States and Canada. Boasting 77-million-members worldwide, the Anglican Church has been invaded by wolves who ravage the faith with rank unbelief and hellish theological liberalism.[2] With a theology more akin to earth, wind, and fire[3] than Father, Son, and Spirit, theological liberals have gutted the faith and spit out the Lord, all the while carefully investing in their 401(k)s -- after all, deception for cash is better than deception for free. (I guess I wish they’d just follow their own worthless theology and go home.)
The turbulent troubles in the Anglican Church over the years have provided plenty of “exodi” from the mainline Church. A number of Bible-believing traditional Anglicans make up the REC, CEC, APA, ACA, AMiA, and EMC (among others), and many more conservative congregations have struggled to find their place in a Church that has left her First Love. There are countless struggling dissenters within the Church who love Anglicanism’s godly heritage, and want to preserve a biblical faith. Just in the last two months, “nine Anglican provinces have broken off relations with all or parts of the U.S. Church.” Each of the “extramural” or “continuing” Anglicans are more Anglican than most Anglicans and have attempted to maintain the soul and essence of Anglicanism, as it is true to the universal Church, the creeds, and the Scriptures. But within the mainstream of the Anglican Church, “dioceses [have] split into liberal and conservative camps with liberal bishops closing conservative Churches one by one.”
Not only has the great Rev. Wagner lost his job -- the first in Canada -- for his faithfulness to God’s standards, he says “we're being told we’re not real Anglicans.”
But not all Anglicans are convinced that the Bible and God are dead. Some of them actually believe both are living and active. One such minister in Vancouver said, “We are reluctant dissidents.” Committed to the truth and unity of the true Church of God, he goes on: “We have become increasingly convinced the umbrella of the Anglican Church is over two different religions. We put the blessing of same-sex unions in the same category as idolatry.” And he’s right. It’s damnable, Godless, hateful idolatry in contrast with a living, breathing, and believing faith. Nevertheless, the bishop washes his hands of any responsibility (like Pilate) by saying, hey, we warned ‘em! Apparently, he began threatening to shut down the godly congregation in October and cut off all denominational funds directed to their glorious church. He soon showed his wicked intolerance to truth and God himself by closing their doors and finally giving the last gavel-drop with a letter dated Dec. 18th. In one quick move, he excommunicated all that is good and righteous, including Jesus himself.
One of the “primates” (a provincial leader), Gregory Venables, who oversees the Southern Cone of South America, concurs. “Scripture says by their fruits you'll know them.” He goes on, “What we're seeing is that two different kinds of tree have grown” that house a very “significant conflict…about what it means to be a Christian and what the gospel of Jesus Christ is.”
Eight righteous Canadian churches (with two more joining) recently sought out oversight by a bishop with godly credentials, and found one: Bishop Terry Buckle of the Diocese of Yukon. But the dastardly Canadian House of Bishops said no way. So the churches did the good and righteous thing and withheld monetary contributions to the spiritually dead diocese. They kept their money at home, in their faithful parishes who preach the Gospel, rather than send support of sodomy to the diocese. All in all, they’ve withheld close to half a million dollars!
The godless, hateful, dastardly, awful God-haters in the Canadian Anglican Church have gone to great lengths to silence the godly and righteous, going so far as to attempt to strong-arm holy clergy by trying to change locks on church doors, developing same-sex “union” liturgies, interrupting worship services, firing parish trustees and wardens (and replacing them with the bishop’s own demonic incubi and secubi), and filing ecclesiastical charges, “accusing them of scandalous conduct and disobedience” to the apostate bishop. Even in the U.S., a lawsuit has been filed (violating biblical law against lawsuits against fellow-believers -- see 1 Cor. 6) in the Diocese of Pittsburgh attempting to keep Church property out of the hands of any conservatives who would dare leave the U.S. Episcopal Church.
This is a war. It is a war for the heart and soul of the faith -- for love and truth. It is war against “Christian” treason. There is no middle ground. These men and women (and trans-gender whatevers) hate Jesus and the faith. They despise a God of righteous love, and fashion him in idolatrous self-definition. They are redefining our Almighty and ever-living God into a cutesy, soft, and screwed up idiotic monkey. They are among the worst enemies of the faith that have ever lived and should be treated as the wicked, dastardly, vile, godless, hateful slime that they are. You are either for Him or against Him -- and apostates are even worse. Choose you this day whom you will serve -- Jehovah or Belial. These people are as bad -- if not worse -- than Judas himself.
As the Times states, “six parishes in the 80-Church New Westminster diocese have asked for same-sex blessings and only two have performed them.” May God remove their lampstands and crush those evil people under his feet. And if God wills, very soon.
Jamey Bennett is associate editor of RazorMouth and one-half of happy hip-hop group Royal Ruckus.
Notes
1. Unless otherwise noted or linked, all quotes taken from The Washington Times.
2. And believe me, sexuality is the least of the concerns among the hell-bound ordained. According to The Christian Challenge, some of the most prestigious Episcopalians are best described as Neopagan by their support of the United Religions Initiative. Our friend, the Canadian jerk Michael Ingham, Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold (the head of the entire mainline Episcopal Church in the US!), and of course, the URI founder, California Episcopal bishop William Swing -- who enjoys raising his hands in invocation of Hetake and Hermes alongside his Wiccan friends -- are all loving loser supporters of URI. When Wiccan gods are as good as our God, sexuality issues are a fun little add-on. Apostasy doesn’t get much worse than that.
3. In addition to sexual apostasy, so much of the Episcopal Church has screwed itself up with being just plain weird. One Episcopal priest says, “I pause to honor and bring into my being first the mineral consciousness, then the vegetable, then animal, human, and angelic.” Huh? She brings the “mineral consciousness” and “the vegetable” into her mind? With a comment like that, I think the vegetable is her consciousness! “Finally I come to rest in the consciousness of the Unknown, which is the mystery, the divine pattern of evolution that is unfolding. … you can feel that powerful energies have been set in motion…function[ing] like a spiral, creating a vortex in its center.” And I thought Deepak Chopra was off his rocker.
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