In the wake of the recent gutting of the gospel by the ECUSA and the changes proposed by the PCUSA, I'd like to humbly extend an invitation to anybody from either communion (or to members of communions in ecclesial union with them).
I will be happy to point you to a good RCIA and act as your sponsor. This is not to win people to my "team". The reason is much greater. The ECUSA is manifestly an enemy of the gospel now. Similarly, if the PCUSA decides to scrap baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it will render invalid all its future baptisms in the name of the god of trendiness (as well as constituting a direct assault on the sacrament of baptism, just as the ECUSA is assaulting practically everything in the Catholic tradition).
All Christians should be outraged, especially other Protestants. So please feel free to help euthanize these two dying Liberal Theology Clubs by removing yourself from them.
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Rob I have. It's really sad. Lord knows the Catholic church has had it's issues. I believe Christianity is under attack from the inside out. We need to stand firm with each other.
I'm not "poaching" anyone. If the Catholic church ever does this I'm outta there or will die fighting against it.
Rob:
I'm sorry you are so frustrated. Just so know, I get all the press releases from the news service as well.
If you are in support of the action taken so be it. The fact remains that there is a major division happening and it that does not benefit any true Christian.
If you are member of the PCUSA that I owuld encourage you to call for your leadership to not waiver from biblical standards.
Your church will be in my prayers.
All Christians should be outraged, especially other Protestants.
I don't see any other beliver as being this or that ... any reference I make to them as being this or that is because without the distinction nobody understands. ALL faithful in Jesus should be appalled at the state of the WHOLE CHURCH.
The question I would ask is why do they need to re-name God? Is there some deep need that has been missed for thousands of years or are they trying to be PC and remove any hint of gender?
Calls for theological revisionism are now routine among mainline Protestants and others who see biblical language as out of date and oppressive. It's simply baking away from Scripture without admiting it.
In the midst of the PCUSA's own controversies over homosexuality, the denomination decides to rework the Trinity. It makes no sense.
I know you think I'm ingnorant of what the PCUSA really did so let me tell you what I do know.
In its opening sections, the report appears to be rooted deeply in Christian orthodoxy. “The doctrine of the Trinity is a summary of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It cannot be properly understood apart from this gospel, and the gospel cannot be fully understood apart from the doctrine of the Trinity,” the report states.
The theologians then propose that the church is “liberated to interpret, amplify, and expand upon the ways of naming the triune God familiar to most church members. We are freed to speak faithfully and amply of the mystery of the Trinity. We may cultivate a responsible trinitarian imagination and vocabulary that bears witness in different ways to the one triune God known to us from scripture and creed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Faithfulness to the gospel frees us to honor and continue to use traditional ways of speaking the triune God even as it frees us to adopt new images and names.”
I'm sorry Ttere is absolutely no scriptural warrant for the church to “interpret, amplify, and expand upon the ways of naming the triune God.”
So what's the real agenda here???
It's an agenda to liberate women from trinitarian language that “has been used to support the idea that God is male and that men are superior to women.”
Be honest, Who would ever naturally assume that “Rainbow, Ark and Dove” or “Rock, Cornerstone and Temple” refer to the three persons of the Trinity?
You might as well call God rock, paper and scissors.
As one commissioner who opposed the report stated: “Words matter. If we use them loosely, unthinkingly, others might use them. Good people are led astray. Our Triune God is not a compassionate mother, a womb or a rainbow or other metaphors that have been lumped together.”
Amen
These are not words that man made up, but rather the words that God has chosen to describe God.
Um ... really ... cite some references please.
Words matter.
Proverbs 30 ... "Every word of God is pure"
EACH AND EVERY word in the Bible is put there by God in the order and connection for His divine purpose.
What is going on here is an subtracting or adding to it - take a position it's one or the other. Altering what God has chosen to say is an abomination.
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