Members of the clergy should be allowed to offer blessings to same-sex couples, a report commissioned by the Church of England has recommended. The report, produced by four bishops and chaired by former civil servant Sir Joseph Pilling, does not propose offering a "formal liturgy".
"The whole Church is called to real repentance for the lack of welcome and acceptance extended to homosexual people in the past, and to demonstrate the unconditional acceptance and love of God in Christ for all people."
I never read the love of God was unconditional. It always depended on repentance.
Interestingly there was a dissent to the report by the Bishop of Birkenhead who refused to sign the completed document. He said he was "not persuaded that the biblical witness on same sex sexual behaviour is unclear".
Typical CofE. They always say that a biblical doctrine is "unclear" before recommending abolition. It's what they did with divorce, and what they did with women priests and bishops - made out that the biblical teaching on the position of women in relation to men was unclear. Well I suppose on that point they had the support of numerous American bible commentaries that do their utmost to undermine the biblical teaching on the relation of women to men. Yet apostolic and early church practice is as clear as daylight, just as it was with divorce.
We're seeing an apostate church in the making here - not that the CofE was ever a true church, as it was a State church that is conceptually foreign to anything found in the bible.
"The whole Church is called to real repentance for the lack of welcome and acceptance extended to homosexual people in the past, and to demonstrate the unconditional acceptance and love of God in Christ for all people."
I never read the love of God was unconditional. It always depended on repentance.
Interestingly there was a dissent to the report by the Bishop of Birkenhead who refused to sign the completed document. He said he was "not persuaded that the biblical witness on same sex sexual behaviour is unclear".
Typical CofE. They always say that a biblical doctrine is "unclear" before recommending abolition. It's what they did with divorce, and what they did with women priests and bishops - made out that the biblical teaching on the position of women in relation to men was unclear. Well I suppose on that point they had the support of numerous American bible commentaries that do their utmost to undermine the biblical teaching on the relation of women to men. Yet apostolic and early church practice is as clear as daylight, just as it was with divorce.
We're seeing an apostate church in the making here - not that the CofE was ever a true church, as it was a State church that is conceptually foreign to anything found in the bible.