Another interesting article from VirtueOnline. This doesn't just apply to the Episcopalians. It has a lot to say to us Lutherans. It explains why people reading the same Bible can come up with such different ideas about what is expected in the Christian life.
GOD AND THE BIBLE IN THE NEW EPISCOPAL RELIGION
By Peter Toon6/26/2006
All Christians claim that the Bible (the One Canon with Two Testaments) is fundamental to Christianity. Without the Bible it is probable that there would be no Christian Religion at all in the world today.
Yet there are within the Christian Church throughout the world a variety of doctrines and views as to what authority the Bible should have in the Church, and how it should be interpreted. Within what we may call the Anglican branch of the worldwide Church, two basic approaches to the Bible, which have been present for a long time, have come into open and severe conflict over the last few years. And the focus of the controversy has been what the Bible says about "human sexuality," specifically whether the church should bless a union of two people of the same sex/gender, who claim to be living in a covenanted partnership and ordained a person in such a "relationship."
Let us call one view the "traditional" and the other the "radical" and describe them in general terms, recognizing that within each category there are variations, from mild to extreme.
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---Katie
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