statement on Social Justice - Part 9
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yrieithyddSo back in September I started taking the Statement on Social Justice to pieces and petered out at Part 8. I've just found a section I'd written but not posted.
So
So heresy. So heresy exists and is bad, but isn't just hypocrisy.
A remarkably bland statement. I feel I might be missing some context here. I expected them to be implying that those of us who read scripture in ways which affirm women in ministry and long-term committed relationships regardless of gender are heretics, but they don't go there. It more reads as though they have been called heretics by those advocating for Social Justice and they're denying that.
Personally, I reserve heresy for major doctrinal issues like the Trinity and Christology. In fact, my approach to understanding the Trinity is to say what we can say is that which falls in the space between the heresies the early church defined.
I'm glad to see a reference to one of the Gospels here (I am the Way the Truth and the Life from John).
So
Heresy
WE AFFIRM that heresy is a denial of or departure from a doctrine that is essential to the Christian faith. We further affirm that heresy often involves the replacement of key, essential truths with variant concepts, or the elevation of non-essentials to the status of essentials. To embrace heresy is to depart from the faith once delivered to the saints and thus to be on a path toward spiritual destruction. We affirm that the accusation of heresy should be reserved for those departures from Christian truth that destroy the weight-bearing doctrines of the redemptive core of Scripture. We affirm that accusations of heresy should be accompanied with clear evidence of such destructive beliefs.
WE DENY that the charge of heresy can be legitimately brought against every failure to achieve perfect conformity to all that is implied in sincere faith in the gospel.
SCRIPTURE: JOHN 14:6; ACTS 4:12; GALATIANS 1:6-9; 1 JOHN 4:1-3, 10, 14, 15; 5:1, 6-12
So heresy. So heresy exists and is bad, but isn't just hypocrisy.
A remarkably bland statement. I feel I might be missing some context here. I expected them to be implying that those of us who read scripture in ways which affirm women in ministry and long-term committed relationships regardless of gender are heretics, but they don't go there. It more reads as though they have been called heretics by those advocating for Social Justice and they're denying that.
Personally, I reserve heresy for major doctrinal issues like the Trinity and Christology. In fact, my approach to understanding the Trinity is to say what we can say is that which falls in the space between the heresies the early church defined.
I'm glad to see a reference to one of the Gospels here (I am the Way the Truth and the Life from John).
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Date: 2019-01-20 11:30 pm (UTC)