Aging maverick.
After he dies he might have a few.
One of many Anti-Christs... And there’s something about a millstone and the deep blue sea that awaits Spong’s reward.
People like those nice big churches .....regardless of whats being taught there.
Spong is Wrong
Another achievement. The Episcopalian Church went from 4.2 million to 2.4 million members during this same period. And it continues to fall.
The Episcopal Church was once a fine and beautiful denomination. The homosexuals must have noticed that and pretty much took over...very sad.
Aging maverick.
John Spong is a character right out of a C. S. Lewis book.
Unfortunately for him, it’s the Episcopal Ghost from “The Great Divorce”.
Add to those heresies, he denied the immutable sin of homosexuality. It IS a choice people make since there is NO "gay," "bisexual" or "asexual-nonsexual" gene. Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve or Adam, Steve, Mary, Joan, etc.
A raging heretic. . . .
There, fixed it.
whatever, the damage he’s done continues on today.
I actually went to a lecture he gave in Florida. It was like being in the room with a large lizard, really bad vibes, and I certainly was not the only person who felt uncomfortable with him. The virgin Mary was a prostitute? Or at least not a virgin.
I believe the root of his position lies in this statement:
He wrote: “[I have] immerse[d] myself in contemporary Biblical scholarship at such places as Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Yale Divinity School, Harvard Divinity School and the storied universities in Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge.”[2]
Union Theological Seminary became a well spring for liberalism, secular humanism, social gospel, and supportive of leftist/communist causes beginning in the 1950s. It is from here that many of his ‘beliefs’ probably came and that he has spread over the decades.
By what he has preached, I believe that he decided that his goal in life was not preaching the Gospel of Jesus, but the destruction of Christianity.
It is still considered by many that Lark’s Gospel was written by John Mark - travel companion of Paul and possibly the same Mark that was associated with Peter - Maybe not an eyewitness to everything but certainly a recorder of the stories of these men!
Mel
so he’s an unbeliever who joined this particular faith in order to destroy it from the inside.
he ought to have been forced out of the ministry after denying the core teachings of the bible
He pretty much succeeded in destroying the Episcopal Church from inside out! All of his heresies are also ancient ones. I am glad he did what he did because heretics like him pushed me to seek being received into the Catholic faith, a place where I really needed to be.
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Well, at least that so gay "so" thing so won.
Spong is demon possessed.
Check out this excellent satire on Spong-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3081333/posts