Sunday, August 23, 2009

More Business Heading Our Way

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has tossed in with the Episcopal Church and will now permit homosexuals living in a "committed relationship" to serve in leadership positions.

No word as yet on whether the ELCA will allow polygamists living in a "committed relationship," or heterosexuals living in a "committed relationship," to serve as pastors.

That private interpretation is an amazing thing.
Posted by Peter Sean at 11:14 AM
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4 comments:

Mark Byron said...

"That private interpretation is an amazing thing." Your side of the Tiber has it too; it's just in the Pope's hands.

That being said, I'm hardly recongnizing the country I grew up in.

4:56 AM
ELC said...

Your side of the Tiber has it too; it's just in the Pope's hands. That is a profound misunderstanding.

Private interpretation is the idea that Christian doctrine is to be derived by the individual from his own understanding of the Bible. (Churches based upon this idea are, therefore, voluntary associations of the like-minded.)

The Catholic idea is that Christian doctrine is to be derived from the divine revelation in its entirety, as passed on from the Apostles, according to the mind of the Church. Bishops and the pope in particular are entrusted with maintaining the integrity of the faith, including determining true from false doctrine when disputes arise.

6:46 PM
Anonymous said...

Look, remember when John Paul II said that he didn't have the authority to change the rule against the ordination of women? Even the pope cannot change what is well-established by the combination of scripture, sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium. There is no sense in which the RCC suffers from the Protestant principle of individual interpretation. That's why there is one RCC and, depending on who's counting, 20,000-60,000 protestant denominations (aka, schisms).

Please go re-read John 17.

10:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Are they deliberately filling these church positions with homosexuals because of manpower shortages or are they trying to 'modernize' their congregations?

Whatever the reasons, appears that they're all suffering from dangerously low 'faith' shortages.

8:33 PM

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