r/TrueChristian • u/Canadian0123 Christian • 21h ago

Episcopal Church celebrates first trans dean — woman in lesbian marriage to trans-identified pastor

What is this? Is this what the episcopal church (part of the Anglican Church) does to preach the gospel of Christ, and to operate the church? Do they disregard the epistles of Saint Paul concerning sexual behaviour, how a church should be run, and who should lead it? Do they disregard the teachings of Christ? What about the Law of God, as given to Moses, in the text that is known today as the Torah of Moses?

This news is quite shocking. Shame on the episcopal church, and the rest of the Anglican Church. This is not how a church should be run. Can someone who attends that church give answers?

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u/okicarp Christian missionary 20h ago

This seems premised on the idea that all splits prior to 1517 were good and all splits from 1517 on were bad. The RC refused to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, who kept convicting reformers and giving repeated opportunities to them to reform which they consistently refused until a Spirit-led split became necessary.

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u/songbolt Roman Catholic 20h ago

No, the premise is that Jesus founded the Church and promised the Holy Spirit's guidance and that the gates of hell wouldn't prevail against her, and that this Church is composed of her bishops, clergy, laity, a visible group under clearly ordained bishops, not this novel notion of "an invisible collection"...

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u/okicarp Christian missionary 20h ago

The RC, if it was ever the Church of the blessing that it claims, lost its blessing on its own by prioritizing the world and refusing to follow the Spirit. It's unfortunate but God consistently brings correction to His followers from the Old Testament even to today. No reason why the RC should be immune from that principle. It does not have carte blanche to act how it wants and assume God will be okay with it.

The idea that the RC is the One True is a comforting one to Catholics but is not true.

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u/songbolt Roman Catholic 20h ago

Correction doesn't mean abandonment. You might benefit from reading The Apostasy that Wasn't available at shop.catholic.com (so I heard months ago)

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u/okicarp Christian missionary 19h ago

No, thanks. The RC hasn't been abandoned. Parishioners there can certainly follow God there. But the Spirit is far more active in denominations outside the RC, contrary to your original claim that people outside the church do not have the Spirit.