The biggest danger we face?

Mar 27, 2020 by

by Peter Mullen, Church of England Newspaper:

[…]  It has always been the Church’s duty and vocation to oppose secular morality when that morality deviates from revealed Christian truth in the clear teaching of both the Old and the New Testament.

But if you think that Stephen Cottrell’s words about the danger of “legitimising homophobia” are a pretty severe criticism of the morality prescribed in the Bible, Cottrell went on to make his secular allegiances absolutely clear: “The biblical passages which so describe these things are part of our story and our inheritance. What we can do is recognise what we know now about human development and human sexuality. This requires us to look again at those texts to see what they are actually saying to our situation. For what we know now is not what was known then.”

Cottrell says that biblical teaching is “part of our story and our inheritance.” Does he admonish us then to treasure this inheritance and cling to our story for dear life as the most precious gift we possess? No – we are urged instead to abandon it. Because the Church hierarchy explicitly and without ambiguity preaches and teaches that we now know better than the Old Testament prophets, St Paul and Christian orthodoxy over the whole period of the Church’s existence.

Naturally. The new pagan ethics will not be formalised all in one go. It will follow the pattern of the gradual, piecemeal ecclesiastical vandalism by which the King James Bible and The Book of Common Prayer were abandoned and replaced by the new Babel that now besets us. Only the repudiation of the Church’s sexual ethics will be completed in less than half the time. Within ten years the Church’s policy on sexual relationships will be indistinguishable from that of the LGBT+ secular immorality. So yes, it’s Lent, when more than a little self examination is called for.

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