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The Church is Not A Democracy
The church was never set up to be a democracy (or a republic). It is a body of believers that have all agreed, as part of joining that body of believers, to believe, in union, about a set of things.
The Anglican church should hold true to what it believes, and if people disagree, then they should form a new denomination, realizing that they are choosing to be out of communion with the church.
It seems to me that part of the predicament said leaders find themselves in is the notion of allegiance to any sort of hierarchical structure. In a world of increasing subjectivity, how do you hold together? I propose a logical solution; reconcile with Rome, and reenter full communion with the Catholic church [ ;) ]
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Matt Maher
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December 16, 2008; 5:14 PM ET
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Posted by: Farnaz2 | December 20, 2008 4:58 PM
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"The church was never set up to be a democracy (or a republic). It is a body of believers that have all agreed, as part of joining that body of believers, to believe, in union, about a set of things."
This is not quite true. People get born into a setting in which a religious heritage is handed to them, ready-made; the vast majority of people do not make any choices at all when it comes to religion; they just experience what is handed to them.
Posted by: DanielintheLionsDen | December 18, 2008 11:57 AM
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According to the US Biblical scholar, Morton Smith, of Columbia University, a fragment of manuscript he found at the Mar Saba monastery near Jerusalem in 1958, showed that the full text of St. Mark chapter 10 (between verses 34 and 35 in the standard version of the Bible) includes the passage:
"And the youth, looking upon him (Jesus), loved him and beseeched that he might remain with him. And going out of the tomb, they went into the house of the youth, for he was rich. And after six days, Jesus instructed him and, at evening, the youth came to him wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the Kingdom of God".