Ah, I get it.
Choice of a religion is a matter of a persons conscience. If my friend converted to another religion that they would be happy with I would support them also. It isn’t my place to tell others how to worship or what to believe. I accept people how they are, not the way I think they should be.
But you don’t mean that they can believe anything, right? And worship any way they please, right?
I am of yours too
What does your signature mean? I am puzzled and curious!
Well I have nothing against anyone thinking. And I suppose if the hospital doesn’t say it would like to be a purer facility even if a smaller one, your analogy works too. I think I’m just going to pray in either case whether the patients don’t respond to or don’t accept the treatment being offered, that they find healing at a hospital and leave it at that. Peace.
PR, I know you’re not sola scriptura and I don’t take everything literally myself but Jesus did say in Matt 19 except for fornication or unfaithfulness. I don’t know if any of your friends are divorced due to that reason or not. Anyway I want to let the thread get back to the Episcopal Church now.I personally think it would be just fine and dandy for a person to divorce and re-marry. I would love to celebrate with my many friends who have had failed marriages and have gotten a seeming new chance at love.
However, I know that Christ has proclaimed that divorce and re-marriage is adultery. And, as such, I concede that the problem is with MY point of view, and not with Christ’s (as if!) and therefore I conform my views to Christs, and I do not proclaim, “I think the -]Church/-] Christ got it wrong when he said divorce and re-marriage is adultery.”
Another example is I just can’t get my mind around the fact that if people are in love, want to marry, but do not want children, that they ought not marry. But that is what the -]Church/-] Christ has proclaimed regarding marriage.
And, thus, I conform my views to Christ’s and not think that I am right.
I can’t exactly understand why this is so…although I think I am starting to get it when one understands the profound implications of marital love and intentional sterility. They don’t go together. I get that.
I just can’t really bring myself to say, of my own accord, “Well, if you don’t want children, then you ought not get married.”
Anglican theology preceded Henry VIII. It really isn’t as simple as ‘Henry got mad at the Pope and set up his own religion.’
Nothing much. I just think it’s unnecessary for people to post, “I haven’t read all of the posts on this thread, but I just wanted to say …”
No, none of my friends are divorced for that reason. As far as I know, anyway.
Many Anglican churches have separated themselves from the Episcopal church. The Anglican Communion of North America would be one example. Episcopal no longer equals Anglican.
The UMC is unusual among mainline protestant churches in that it has yet to officially and institutionally accept and promote homosexuality. This is not due to lack of effort. But as I understand it what has stopped it has been the foreign vote. The UMC apparently has grown considerably overseas and those who were converted to Christianity have strangely seemed to take the teachings to heart and consider homosexuality to be the sin it clearly is. The American UMC church seems more than willing to accept homosexuality but loses the vote due to foreign converts. I have noticed several UMC churches and organizations defying the judgment and rule of their church by promoting homosexuality.
Also if you take the message often taught by mainline protestant churches to heart there is no need for you to be in church. Since they have removed the seriousness and almost even the existence of sin there is no need to repair the soul. You don’t need a savior if you are not a sinner.
Like your parish, my parish consists of many former Catholics, although I don’t know the percentages, but there is a significant number who joined for various reasons.
Thank you for your reply. I apologize for being so blunt earlier, I have nothing against the Episcopalian Church.
Yes, I do. I don’t tell others what to believe and I don’t reject them for their religion. I have a very good friend that is wiccan and that is fine with me.
I like your “thought”
Is that really “fine” with you, that your friend is living without Christ?
Well, that’s a bit different than what I said, KWR. I’m not proposing that you “reject them for their religion.”
I don’t think it’s about “believers.” Episcopalians are pretty happy to accept that folks who choose another church are believers!