Anglican church rift
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7479735.stm
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The controversy largely surrounds the issue of same sex marriages in Anglican churches, and the ordination in the US of an openly gay bishop. The conservatives are advocating "a more orthodox reading of the bible", and will form the new group today: the last day of the "Global Anglican Future Conference" being held in Jerusalem.
The 'reform group', chaired by Reverend Rod Thomas, have long criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, over his unwillingness to act over the US Episcopal Church's ordination of openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson, in 2003. Rev. Thomas accused the Anglican Church, lead by Dr. Williams, "is being destroyed by false teaching of the Bible on issues such as sexuality". However the conservatives are quick to point out that this rift is not specifically about homosexuality, but simply how Anglicans should interpret the Bible.
Rev. Thomas also disagrees with what he says is the US Episcopal Church's suggestion that Jesus Christ is not the only way to salvation, saying that " there is nothing in the Bible which supports that view."
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rwylie
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Agreed: Belief in a higher power and following a set tet are completely different.
As an aside, there's an interesting recent study ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7456588.stm ) which suggests that the brains of homosexuals resemble the brains of heterosexuals of the opposite sex. This suggests, as is already quite evident, that homosexuality is not a choice, as religious texts unanimously state that it is.
Can a truly religious person, after seeing this study, can give me a reason why god; who you believe created us all, would make someone homosexual only to damn them for it?
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rwylie
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I am not a religious person but I do believe in a higher power, with that said I find it hard to take in the bible do to the fact that as you stated it was written over 1800 years ago translated who knows how many times by whom ever. Also it is filled with contradictions that could be taken literally for good or bad. I feel that to many people fall into this trap, instead of reading its passages and take a step back and think of all its possible meanings instead of just what it says word for word.
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rwylie
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Authors View: This, of course, is a good question. How should one interpret a text written 1800 years ago, with much of the outdated attitudes that go with that time: I advise readers to browse the Old Testament, and find out how often yu find it is down to your own personal judgement on which passages you think you could reasonably obey.
The whole idea of religion, in its literary sense, is that you accept your Holy book as 'the word'. As soon as you start being able to pick and choose which parts you want to follow, the obvious question is: why have religion at all?
As for the question of salvation, there is no doubt that the Bible is pretty unambiguous: If you don't believe what this book says, you go to hell. Can any, even conservative, Christian reading this actually believe that a loving God would deny an otherwise good person salvation, if he or she happened to be raised in a part of the world which had had no contact with Christianity: I would honestly like to hear your reasoning.
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