Should the ECUSA apologise

[pmcleanj]

Three times. Oh well.

"are inspired by" and "are the understanding of" are indeed not precisely equivalent

Well, they didn't need to be precisely equivalent. Merely sufficiently closely equivalent in the context where they were used, to support the premise that

"If the writings are inspired by God,
Then the writings are the understanding of God."

Alas, if that first link in the chain of logic can't be demonstrated, there's no point in pursuing the rest of the chain. It is indeed a breakdown of communication, indicative I believe far more of the low standards for formal logic maintained in modern society than of any perceived divide in the Anglican communion.

 

[ahab]

Hi Pmcleanj



Your logic isnt faulty, but if you had addressed what I said you would have seen that the Holy Spirit is something that encompasses the inspiration to man and the understanding of God. Trying to ascertain the logic of equivalence will surely lead you to what the Holy Spirit isn’t.



Try now to address what I wrote.

The truth about the scripture is that Paul says what he preached is not something that man made up but received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. So same-sex sex is condemned by Paul because he has been revealed this by Jesus. As there are different definitions and understandings of the meaning of the modern word ‘homosexuality’ we don’t even need to know what Bishop Griswold means by it as the NT writers don’t talk about homosexuality but same-sex sexual acts which they did know about. The pronouncement on it is revelation from God not man.

 

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