Episcopal church embracing HERESY flies in the face of GOD OUR FATHER!

[Moonglow]

The English language is more gender neutral than paternal or maternal based languages......

Actually, it isn't. Who is "mankind"? The male half of the human population or all male and female humans? Remember that it was in the inside of a female human being that an egg was fertilized by a sperm, carried, developed into a human being, and was delivered into this world by her, in pain, as a fully formed being, which is you.

Mankind is a gender biased word created by a gender biased human, yet the English language is very flexible in it's usage and is more gender neutral because words can be changed to gender neutral and still hold the same definition...

Any person with a basic education understands "mankind" means human beings, period.

Does does the word humans...

 

[rightwinger]

What religion are you? You certainly are not a Christian. Such an idea would not come from a person who follows the teachings of Jesus.

You must never have read the Gospels. Jesus hated the Jews. How he spoke to them leaves no doubt.

You must not have read them

Jesus loved everyone

 

[Penelope]

Last week the Episcopal Church in the Washington D.C. diocese passed a resolution to eliminate “gendered language for God.” The use of masculine pronouns for God will not be used when the church’s Book of Common Prayer is revised.

One writer describes the decision as an example of the Episcopal Church’s “freefall to the theological left.” The resolution was submitted by five clerics, three of whom were women.

In the resolution the 79th General Convention directed “the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, if revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God.”

For any Christian group in God-blessed America to become so reckless in their view of God is unthinkable.

Tony Perkins, leader of the Evangelical Family Council, says Trump is their cultural leader.
Trump is a good role model for their children.

Trump is a good role model for their children. Totally agree.

So having children with 3 women and is ok with divorce and affairs is ok with the Evan Family Council. Trump should be walking around eyeless, castrated, and handless due to the words of Jesus;
Matthew 5:29-30 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna.

 

[BS Filter]

Last week the Episcopal Church in the Washington D.C. diocese passed a resolution to eliminate “gendered language for God.” The use of masculine pronouns for God will not be used when the church’s Book of Common Prayer is revised.

One writer describes the decision as an example of the Episcopal Church’s “freefall to the theological left.” The resolution was submitted by five clerics, three of whom were women.

In the resolution the 79th General Convention directed “the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, if revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God.”

For any Christian group in God-blessed America to become so reckless in their view of God is unthinkable.

Tony Perkins, leader of the Evangelical Family Council, says Trump is their cultural leader.
Trump is a good role model for their children.

Trump is a good role model for their children. Totally agree.

So having children with 3 women and is ok with divorce and affairs is ok with the Evan Family Council. Trump should be walking around eyeless, castrated, and handless due to the words of Jesus;
Matthew 5:29-30 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna.

Did God forgive King David?

 

[Penelope]

The old denominations are dying. However, the Church is alive and well.

When the church has lost influence in society, only a s-----d would call the church alive and well.

Former Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and the Episcopalians are leaving those organizations and joining Independent Bible Believing Fundamentalist churches. The broad way was never the road to heaven. The way is narrow...

Unfortunately you might be right due to the hatred of the Fundies bad mouthing the moral and sensible religions for zealot ones.

Fundies (Fundamentalists) (Zealots) are no better than the Jewish zealots or Muslims zealots that look forward to the apocalypse, destruction of the world and are helping to bring it on. You are all a scary bunch of loons.

 

[Penelope]

Last week the Episcopal Church in the Washington D.C. diocese passed a resolution to eliminate “gendered language for God.” The use of masculine pronouns for God will not be used when the church’s Book of Common Prayer is revised.

One writer describes the decision as an example of the Episcopal Church’s “freefall to the theological left.” The resolution was submitted by five clerics, three of whom were women.

In the resolution the 79th General Convention directed “the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, if revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God.”

For any Christian group in God-blessed America to become so reckless in their view of God is unthinkable.

Tony Perkins, leader of the Evangelical Family Council, says Trump is their cultural leader.
Trump is a good role model for their children.

Trump is a good role model for their children. Totally agree.

So having children with 3 women and is ok with divorce and affairs is ok with the Evan Family Council. Trump should be walking around eyeless, castrated, and handless due to the words of Jesus;
Matthew 5:29-30 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna.

Did God forgive King David?

King David was a murderer and an adulterer, Jesus would not approve.

 

[Circe]

By what line of rational thought does the gender of a purportedly omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient being matter? Surely you don't think the gender reference humans use when describing and discussing such a being matters to such a being?

Well said. I suppose it mainly matters to the women who organized this change.

A lot of people like religious services for the reassuring traditions, however, so this will continue the decline of the Episcopal Church, as they are basically outlawing the Bible.

 

[BS Filter]

Last week the Episcopal Church in the Washington D.C. diocese passed a resolution to eliminate “gendered language for God.” The use of masculine pronouns for God will not be used when the church’s Book of Common Prayer is revised.

One writer describes the decision as an example of the Episcopal Church’s “freefall to the theological left.” The resolution was submitted by five clerics, three of whom were women.

In the resolution the 79th General Convention directed “the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, if revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God.”

For any Christian group in God-blessed America to become so reckless in their view of God is unthinkable.

Tony Perkins, leader of the Evangelical Family Council, says Trump is their cultural leader.
Trump is a good role model for their children.

Trump is a good role model for their children. Totally agree.

So having children with 3 women and is ok with divorce and affairs is ok with the Evan Family Council. Trump should be walking around eyeless, castrated, and handless due to the words of Jesus;
Matthew 5:29-30 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna.

Did God forgive King David?

King David was a murderer and an adulterer, Jesus would not approve.

You didn't answer the question. Did God forgive King David? Did Jesus forgive the woman caught in adultery? Does God forgive murder and adultery? Answer it.

 

[Circe]

Elodin pointed down the street. "What color is that boy's shirt?"
"Blue."
"What do you mean by blue? Describe it."
I struggled for a moment, failed. "So blue is a name?"

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.
-- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind​

Wow. My granddaughter put that Patrick Rothfuss book on the audiobook account we share. I just downloaded it. I know it's famous, but I never read it. Now I will. Thanks, Xelor!

 

[usmbguest5318]

Elodin pointed down the street. "What color is that boy's shirt?"
"Blue."
"What do you mean by blue? Describe it."
I struggled for a moment, failed. "So blue is a name?"

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.
-- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind​

Wow. My granddaughter put that Patrick Rothfuss book on the audiobook account we share. I just downloaded it. I know it's famous, but I never read it. Now I will. Thanks, Xelor!

Thanks, Xelor!

NP

 

[Penelope]

Tony Perkins, leader of the Evangelical Family Council, says Trump is their cultural leader.
Trump is a good role model for their children.

Trump is a good role model for their children. Totally agree.

So having children with 3 women and is ok with divorce and affairs is ok with the Evan Family Council. Trump should be walking around eyeless, castrated, and handless due to the words of Jesus;
Matthew 5:29-30 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna.

Did God forgive King David?

King David was a murderer and an adulterer, Jesus would not approve.

You didn't answer the question. Did God forgive King David? Did Jesus forgive the woman caught in adultery? Does God forgive murder and adultery? Answer it.

No I don't believe so. That is why he said Solomon would build the temple according to the OT and their kid died as well if I remember right.

 

[Circe]

The problem is (if you do not comprehend) is that THEY are CHOOSING to eliminate all male references, and attempting to instill TRANSGENDER ideology into GOD's WORD! That alone makes them as evil as if they were Hitler Himself in his attempt to annihilate God's Choosen People and promote a Superior Evolved Race !

No, no, I know a lot of Episcopalians and I've talked about this. It has nothing to do with transgenders. It's about women, who are taking over the church, as there are no longer enough men who want to run it. You can see that it would be awkward for women to be bishops and yet constantly refer to God and everything else important as male.

The OP refers to the Episcopal Church in "freefall" and it is indeed. In my county, two old Episcopal Churches have closed and the rest can't find "normal" ministers. One is way out in the country and its last minister was a temp who was a black male well over the age of retirement; and now they have hired an open lesbian with a "wife," and these insist on living in the lovely stone manse by the church. (This is really happening.) They are both also well over the age of retirement. This church had 70 attendees only. How many do you think they will have with the new regime? They will close, I predict.

My friend, a leftist, told me indignantly that one of the vestry said he didn't see why they couldn't just hire a man. Well, the real answer is that there aren't any. Because the Episcopalian Church is dying: using marginalized attention-seekers for ministers is a sign. They wouldn't if they had an alternative.

The Maryland Bishop, who is a black male, hired another bishop by the simple expedient of lying to the delegates about her record of alcohol arrests. He didn't tell them about it. This massively obese woman who could hardly walk then drank herself sloppy in church and drove home, texting at the moment she ran over and killed a young engineer, father of two. You may have read about this in the news. This is a dying church.

 

[Circe]

You're just an insecure pagan who clings to feminism for a sense of worth.

It does work, though............. I like it myself.

 

[Circe]

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

I love this sentence. I suppose it's too edgy for me to use, but it's very good.

 

[LittleNipper]

Last week the Episcopal Church in the Washington D.C. diocese passed a resolution to eliminate “gendered language for God.” The use of masculine pronouns for God will not be used when the church’s Book of Common Prayer is revised.

One writer describes the decision as an example of the Episcopal Church’s “freefall to the theological left.” The resolution was submitted by five clerics, three of whom were women.

In the resolution the 79th General Convention directed “the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, if revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God.”

For any Christian group in God-blessed America to become so reckless in their view of God is unthinkable.

You would need to prove that God has a penis to make your side viable..can you do that?

All I have to prove is how Jesus Christ referred to God in Heaven. Christ Jesus called Him Father. And told believers to pray thusly, Our Father which is in heaven ---Holy is You name ----etc... And we have 2000 years of the translations that are in Greek, Aramaic, and Latin referencing this. There was no transgender nonsense then ---- it doesn't become suddenly valid now!

 

[BulletProof]

Jesus loved everyone

You're a shithead and a liar. Jesus told the Jews that they're children of the devil. Jesus invented the biblical concept of eternal torment as a place for God to dispose corporately of the Jews. That's not love. That's hate.

 

[BulletProof]

Jesus didn't hate the JEWS, He hated the false teachers who taught one thing and did another. He hated the fact that there were Jewish leaders who were circumventing the LAW to make a prophet for themselves. Jesus was even tried at night that was entirely against Jewish Law, but it suited the "liberal" teachers who were trying to shut up Jesus to save their OWN authority.

All Jews are false teachers in that all Jews (by their definition) deny Jesus is the Christ. Jesus hates all false teachers. Jesus hates all Jews. God hates all evil-doers. The Gospels show us a Jesus who hated the unbelieving Jews.

 

[LittleNipper]

The whole religion is built around him being our FATHER
bull dykes and trannies cant be a damn father, you retarded bedwetters

Patriarchal religions are such victims.

The old denominations are dying. However, the Church is alive and well.

When the church has lost influence in society, only a s-----d would call the church alive and well.

Former Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and the Episcopalians are leaving those organizations and joining Independent Bible Believing Fundamentalist churches. The broad way was never the road to heaven. The way is narrow...

Unfortunately you might be right due to the hatred of the Fundies bad mouthing the moral and sensible religions for zealot ones.

Fundies (Fundamentalists) (Zealots) are no better than the Jewish zealots or Muslims zealots that look forward to the apocalypse, destruction of the world and are helping to bring it on. You are all a scary bunch of loons.

The liberals are making up doctrine based on their own feelings! Fundamentalists base doctrine with a high regard for ALL Canon Scripture ----- not simply select passages that make one feel good about one's self!

 

[rightwinger]

Jesus loved everyone

You're a shithead and a liar. Jesus told the Jews that they're children of the devil. Jesus invented the biblical concept of eternal torment as a place for God to dispose corporately of the Jews. That's not love. That's hate.

Jesus even loves you

Even though you are an asshole

 

[LittleNipper]

Last week the Episcopal Church in the Washington D.C. diocese passed a resolution to eliminate “gendered language for God.” The use of masculine pronouns for God will not be used when the church’s Book of Common Prayer is revised.

One writer describes the decision as an example of the Episcopal Church’s “freefall to the theological left.” The resolution was submitted by five clerics, three of whom were women.

In the resolution the 79th General Convention directed “the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, if revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God.”

For any Christian group in God-blessed America to become so reckless in their view of God is unthinkable.

Tony Perkins, leader of the Evangelical Family Council, says Trump is their cultural leader.
Trump is a good role model for their children.

Trump is a good role model for their children. Totally agree.

So having children with 3 women and is ok with divorce and affairs is ok with the Evan Family Council. Trump should be walking around eyeless, castrated, and handless due to the words of Jesus;
Matthew 5:29-30 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna.

Did God forgive King David?

King David was a murderer and an adulterer, Jesus would not approve.

King David went to Abraham's Bosom when he died not because he was perfect, but believed God would save him and he had faith in GOD's saving grace. When Jesus gave up His life on the cross, he went to free those in prison and release them to Paradise. Hell then increased.