mylifemyfaith (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mylifemyfaith) wrote,@ 2008-08-25 14:48:00 |
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A Shocking Realization:
While I may be in sympathy with many Episcopalians on many issues, I do not think that I could ever be fully a part of TEC because that would involve accepting that I cannot excercise my own theolgical judgment, build my own conclusions, and then act on them. I would have to submit to the authroity of the bishop, even when I disagreed. Therefore, I do not think I could be part of TEC after all....
My mind is spinning!
Edit: Of course, that's not a very Christian attitude to take! We should be willing to submit to correction, by the wider Church, not stridently proclaim our own correctness! Therefore TEC! My thoughts proceed apace!
Furthermore, I think I discount the value of civil dissobdiance... I need to remember that part too... also, most of my problems with episcopacy could be solved by not consecrating brainless bigots.
While I may be in sympathy with many Episcopalians on many issues, I do not think that I could ever be fully a part of TEC because that would involve accepting that I cannot excercise my own theolgical judgment, build my own conclusions, and then act on them. I would have to submit to the authroity of the bishop, even when I disagreed. Therefore, I do not think I could be part of TEC after all....
My mind is spinning!
Edit: Of course, that's not a very Christian attitude to take! We should be willing to submit to correction, by the wider Church, not stridently proclaim our own correctness! Therefore TEC! My thoughts proceed apace!
Furthermore, I think I discount the value of civil dissobdiance... I need to remember that part too... also, most of my problems with episcopacy could be solved by not consecrating brainless bigots.
