Friday, July 10, 2009

Personal Salvation Heresy?

I was quite surprised today to hear this news from the Episcopal Church's presiding Bishop. Evidently, she believes it is heresy to say that we can be saved as individuals. I"m not quite sure what she believes is the alternative. Being saved as a church? Being saved as a world? Not quite sure what she means. We are, afterall, born in to this world separately, and we separately make choices for our life. I don't understand why she believes that we can't become personally saved. She says it is a form of idolatry. According to my understanding of idolatry, worshipping God and looking to Jesus Christ as our Savior isn't idolatry. The Episcopal church has been in a lot of upheaval in the recent year. Maybe this is her attempt to draw some of the people back who left?

3 comments:

Looney said...

The news doesn't surprise me at all. A big portion of the mainline churches never mention sin, repentance or salvation. Their leaders are taught in seminary that this is some superstitious ignorance, and that if God really exists and really is loving, then He will save everyone, regardless of how they behave or what they believe.

In some sense this may be helpful because it is going to force churches sitting on the fence between tradition and Christianity on the one hand, and Schorianity with her gospel of salvation by depravity on the other hand, to make a decision which religion they want to be part of.

Delirious said...

You have made some great points that I didn't think of. It truly will force the issue, and make the members have to make a decision about what they believe. I know many of their members have already broken off.

To me, this is more evidence of the apostasy. So many churches are turning away from the teaching of repentance, and condemning those who believe in repentance of obedience to the commandments. And the devil laughs...

Delirious said...

wow...I'm the typo queen tonight.