Apostate Church of England has mutated into a Gnostic “Sex” Sect
by Jules Gomes:
A queer thing happened to the Church of England. In the 500th year of the Reformation it crossed the thin red line from apostolic to apostate. Future seminary students will be grateful for this mnemonic device when mugging up important dates for a Church History exam.
Easy peasy! How can one forget? In 1517, the Reformers decided to yank a recalcitrant Church of Rome back to the Bible. In 2017, the Reformers booed the Bible and booted it out of the Church of England.
The flashpoint for the Reformation of 1517 was indulgences. The flashpoint for the Reformation of 2017 was indulgences. Yes. One more mnemonic device to help students remember how Humpty Dumpty had a big, great fall, sung to Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. Only this time ‘indulgence’ meant indulging yourself.
The charge of heresy is serious when levelled against church leaders. In May, Bishop Martin Morrison of the Anglican Church in South Africa accused ‘the establishment of the Church of England’ of being ‘at the very least heretical.’ ‘They are wolves, they are false teachers, they are hired hands,’ he stated, adding that ‘the Archbishops of York and Canterbury can no longer be trusted.’
The charge of apostasy is deadly when levelled against an entire denomination. Hence, it must be clearly defined, as it is not part of the ‘newspeak’ of today’s trendy Christian leaders. The Greek word comes from two roots: apo is “against” and stasis is “standing.” In classical Greek apostasis is used for a departure, defection or revolt. In secular writings from New Testament times, apostasis is used to speak of political factions that rebel against the state. The early church used the term apostasy to name and shame those who had abandoned Christianity for another religion.
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