The Church of England will be out of step with the majority of the Anglican Communion, the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches united with Constantinople, and the many Orthodox Churches of the Middle East... it will be out of step with the Bible. .....the step ...is a shift away from the foundational roots of the scriptures. I urge the bishops to think again ....before they return in July.
Read moreBishop Alexander of Alexandria and his deacon Athanasius realized that this heresy contradicts the doctrine of salvation. In response, they stood firm at the council of Nicaea (325 AD), and defeated the Arian heresy. Arius did not give up but he continued to spread his heresy even after Athanasius became the bishop of Alexandria in 328 AD.
Read moreFor the moment we would commend to you as members of the EFAC Global family this declaration:
We declare that the Church of England, in making this change, has departed from the faith which is revealed in the holy scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds to which the historic formularies of the Church of England bear witness.
Read moreAnglican Orthodox, a rapidly growing grassroots movement of hundreds of vicars and senior lay leaders, plus retired bishops and archdeacons, notes in precious centuries, when society and culture put pressure on the Church to conform, it was the bishops who stood firm and resisted compromise on biblical faith, and were even burnt at the stake!
Read moreI have participated in good faith in the process, trusting that this was an opportunity for people across the Church to work together to try to find a way forward that was "founded in scripture, in reason, in tradition, in theology and the Christian faith as the Church of England has received it", as the Archbishop of Canterbury put it when launching the project in 2017.
SIMPLY TO STATE THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IS NOT AN ACT OF DISCERNMENT
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Much of the justification for this stance regarding same sex unions rests on the uncritical adoption of new ideologies of ontology. Chief among these is the adoption of modern gender ideology and its concomitant offspring -- gender identity. Gender ideology is a post-modern deconstruction of the biblical understanding of human identity.
Read moreIt suppresses the "faith once delivered to the saints" and instead champions a counterfeit deeply devoted to progressive political aims and sexual permissiveness. And, for the Church of England, this has been a long time coming. While in past generations her scholarly clergy were often swift and sound when it came to refuting false doctrine, a theological liberalism has certainly taken root and taken over the denomination like a cancer.
Read moreAnd, truth be told, it was not the King or Parliament or the Bishops or the Archbishop of Canterbury who were primarily responsible for the fruit of Anglican mission.
Read moreThe reasons for this are threefold:
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