“For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.” Isaiah 3:9
Inspiring.
Had not heard that Bell endorsed homosexual union (a spiritual impossibility before God), but am not at all surprised.
Bingo. How about 1 John 2:19.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.
What else can be said?
Same could asked of the unitarians.
The unitarians didn’t used to embrace every abomination under the sun.
Now they just can’t get enough of the old evils.
What happened?
The original sin for the unitarians of course was that they didn’t believe that Jesus is fully God—as well as fully Man.
This robbed them of all power save what they could gin up among themselves—which is to say —not much.
As result their virtue was always just a reflection of the culture around them rather than anything that sprang from their own doctrine.
When the culture went bad they went bad too.
The Episcopals are just a more pronounced outgrowth of the problem that affected all the mainline denominations. About 80 years ago they all signed onto the higher criticism school in their seminaries. Higher criticism treated bible stories like greek or norse myths—that is —fables that revealed something about the human character and condition —rather than God’s truth. This meant that essentially there are no miracles. There’s no supernatural processes at work in the world. Essentially everything is measurable including God. Why? because man is the measure of all things.
Essentially the higher criticism school borrowed the philosophy of Descartes and applied to theology.
(This is a caca thing to do because philosophy presumes that man is the measure of all things whereas theology presumes that God is the measure of all things. But there you have it)
In any case under these circumstances if there are no miracles and nothing supernatural; man is the measure of all things—including God—then of course Jesus is just a man.
All of the mainline protestant denominations have gone the way of the unitarian (Arian Heresy)
So again they have no internal moral spring. their morality is just a reflection of the culture. when the culture—these denominations went bad too.
Good post.
Excellent article.
>>why is it they end up in the Episcopal Church?
Maybe because it pays better.
What are the comparative pay scale and retirement benefit numbers?
When a “church’s” doctrine is set by vote or by the current whims rather than based on 2000 year old rock, what else can one expect except apostasy?