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Conservative United Methodists say divide over sexuality is `irreconcilable'
charlotteobserver.com ^ | May. 30, 2014 | Tim Funk and Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Posted on 05/31/2014 12:06:01 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Will the United Methodist Church soon have to drop the “United” part of its name?

A group of 80 pastors, including at least two from North Carolina, says the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination faces a split because of an inability to resolve long-standing theological disputes about homosexuality and church doctrine.

But more than lamenting the divisions, the pastors indicated there is little reason to think reconciliation – or even coexistence – could be found. Like a couple heading to divorce court, the pastors cited irreconcilable differences that can’t be mended.

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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Theology
KEYWORDS: homonaziagenda; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; methodists; northcarolina; protestant; sectarianturmoil; umc; unitedmethodists; wesleyans
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1 posted on 05/31/2014 12:06:02 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It’s a shame Christianity does not have a governing book that would answer these questions on sexual immorality by providing clear guidance.


2 posted on 05/31/2014 12:09:51 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Methodist church of my childhood (My grandmother’s current church) has taken a decidedly conservative turn.


3 posted on 05/31/2014 12:10:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Pollster1

Yeah, they could refer to such a book as “The Bible of Christianity” or, for short...


4 posted on 05/31/2014 12:11:55 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The United was taken with the Methodist merger with the Evangelical United Brethern in 1968.


5 posted on 05/31/2014 12:12:20 PM PDT by Abby4116
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To: Pollster1

LOL!


6 posted on 05/31/2014 12:13:10 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The group makes clear its support for the church’s current official positions on homosexuality,

"current"

7 posted on 05/31/2014 12:15:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Is sexual immorality the only sin that the UMC will tolerate? Or will it give its blessing to stealing, lying, and murder as well?


8 posted on 05/31/2014 12:17:30 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Pollster1
It’s a shame Christianity does not have a governing book that would answer these questions on sexual immorality by providing clear guidance.

Since there are some 30,000 different Protestant denominations (Google, Wikipedia) I think that the possibility of Protestant "unity" is gone forever. That ship has sailed...a LONG time ago.

Protestants today might not even know where their name came from. They aren't "protesting" anymore...just splintering ever more. That is a shame. It doesn't make folks feel better about their faith. It might even make them apprehensive.

9 posted on 05/31/2014 12:19:36 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“.....because of an inability to resolve long-standing theological disputes about homosexuality and church doctrine..”

Long Standing?

Christianity has been around since 33AD. That is 1,981 years. For 1,965 of those years, EVERY Christian denomination has unequivocally regarded Homosexual activity as a sin. Long standing, NOT!

Hell, for 1,900 years every Christian Denomination considered artificial contraception to be a sin. So there is little in all of Christendom that is a long standing dispute. Heck the Protestant Reformation is only 600 years old, a mear blip in the Church time line.


10 posted on 05/31/2014 12:21:29 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The broken sinner, convicted by the Holy Spirit, can always find refuge in the grace of God in Christ! These deceivers are like the adulteress who “eats, wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’”—Proverbs 30:20


11 posted on 05/31/2014 12:21:51 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Hoodat

The UMC is a strong supporter of abortion and has been since 1971. So yes, they are OK with child murder. They say it is A-OK!


12 posted on 05/31/2014 12:25:33 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Hello Methodists. Get ready to join the Lutherans Episcopalians and Presbyterians in division, after fighting a schismatic battle against an implacable foe.
13 posted on 05/31/2014 12:26:54 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Off the subject:
I once heard that when the great Methodist John Wesley died he was found to have a rosary in his pocket. Is that true or false?
14 posted on 05/31/2014 12:28:05 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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Hello Methodists. Get ready to join the Lutherans Episcopalians and Presbyterians in division, after fighting a schismatic battle against an implacable foe.

Who is the implacable foe?

15 posted on 05/31/2014 12:28:49 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Pollster1

It’s a shame Christianity does not have a governing book that would answer these questions on sexual immorality by providing clear guidance.

It’s called the Holy Bible - It is perfectly clear. However, some do not want to obey it.


16 posted on 05/31/2014 12:35:58 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Divided over sexuality?

Wouldn’t King Solomon say: “Let’s cut the Queer in half”?


17 posted on 05/31/2014 12:37:09 PM PDT by TRY ONE (I never got the memo on changing 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Change'!)
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To: AppyPappy; GarySpFc; lightman; MuttTheHoople; mware; VeniVidiVici; xzins

Ping


18 posted on 05/31/2014 12:37:54 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Pollster1

LOL!


19 posted on 05/31/2014 12:38:10 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

All I can say, being part of the “New” Christian denominations, (only 600 years old), READ THE BOOK! You know, the “God Breathed” book.

You don’t even have to use the “New Fangled” Testament, (nearly 2000 years old). You can simply rely on the “Old” Testament, as in, THOUSANDS of years “old”.

There is absolutely no question as to whether homosexuality (married people have sex), is a sin and that by habitually sinning against God you cannot be a “Christian”, period.


20 posted on 05/31/2014 12:43:06 PM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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