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Friday, January 12, 2007

This Goes Way Beyond the Episcopal Church

Kudos to Os Guiness and Rev. John Yates for their opinion piece in the Washington Post. They were commenting on the vote by several Virginia churches to leave the Episcopal Church. Here's a snippet:

"The sola scriptura (by the Scriptures alone) doctrine of the Reformation Church has been abandoned for the sola cultura (by the culture alone) way of the Modern Church. No longer under authority, the Episcopal Church today is either its own authority or finds its authority in the shifting winds of intellectual and social fashion--which is to say it has no authority."
"We remain Anglicans but leave the Episcopal Church because the Episcopal Church first left the historic faith. Like our spiritual forebears in the Reformation, "Here we stand. So help us God. We can do no other."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You are right to say that the moving away from the sola scriptura doctrine goes beyond the Episcopal Denomination. Denominational heirarchies tend to either abandon the scriptural doctrine or add doctrine from their own ideas to scripture.

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