Posted on 01/13/2023 6:49:37 PM PST by marshmallow
“Bishop John claims that whilst being “bound by the scriptures”, the Church interprets them through the living “application of reason and experience” and as a result it has caused him to reassess his reading of them.” Allow me to translate. “Sure the bible says some stuff, but it’s a really unpopular take, so now were going to ignore the bible and centuries of understanding and tradition so we look cool (and crazy people don’t get mad at us).”
Could be the wine. And some thirty years of being told how special they are and how ‘’oppressed’’ and entitled they are to whine and bitch and moan.
Like all liberals and doctrinally illiterate that call themselves Christian, this guy practices eisegesis rather than exegesis.
It took 600 years but making up their own C
“Church” so Henry could have an heir and Cromwell could steal the property of the Catholic Church has caught up to them.
Their theology is defective so they must stoop to sin to draw in and keep members.
Why limit his approval to monogamous only? Let group “love” bloom, and may the church bless it all. If they won’t honor God’s limits, why set bother setting their own?
And some wonder why the numbers of believers are plummeting...
There is now NO outlet for anything that resembles a code of ethics for the human race...
He’s so open minded that his brains fell out.
So C of E Bishops don’t have access to Bibles? Interesting.
It wasn’t Vatican II. This article is about the Church of England. The culprit with Protestants was the Lambeth Conference that first allowed artificial contraception. It’s been downhill for Protestants ever since.
Oddly, he didn’t believe this 20 years ago. I wonder what changed.
Paul’s letter to the Romans must be missing from the Bishop exams in the COE.
“I like to go with my feelings.”
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