Caleb
July 22nd, 2008, 11:50 AM
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
VANCOUVER, July 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. James Innell Packer, a noted Canadian theologian, author and a Board of Governors Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, as well as an executive editor of Christianity Today, recently addressed the contentious problem of homosexuality and same-sex unions in the Anglican church.
The Anglican Church has come to a cross-roads because of the issue of same-sex "marriage," with a massive split in the Global Communion looking increasingly inevitable.
Dr. Packer opened his remarks with a statement explaining why this issue is of such great importance in the Anglican Church today. "In brief," he said, "because it involves the denial of something that's integral to the Christian Gospel.
Dr. Packer asserted that the blessing of same-sex unions is a direct contradiction of Scripture and there can be no compromise on the issue.
"The Scripture teaching that is being denied is an element of the Gospel itself, that is God's message about how we sinners can be saved. If you refuse to repent, at some point where the Gospel requires you to repent, well, you are not walking according to the Gospel, and what Paul says is that your soul is in danger."
"Now I don't want to believe that, but I dare not disbelieve it - it's apostolic teaching, it's the word of God."
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08072105.html
Finally, yet another Christian who is unwilling to bend like grass in a windstorm to the homosexual agenda!!! But of course, the gay groups are probably going to come after him for "hate speech."
VANCOUVER, July 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. James Innell Packer, a noted Canadian theologian, author and a Board of Governors Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, as well as an executive editor of Christianity Today, recently addressed the contentious problem of homosexuality and same-sex unions in the Anglican church.
The Anglican Church has come to a cross-roads because of the issue of same-sex "marriage," with a massive split in the Global Communion looking increasingly inevitable.
Dr. Packer opened his remarks with a statement explaining why this issue is of such great importance in the Anglican Church today. "In brief," he said, "because it involves the denial of something that's integral to the Christian Gospel.
Dr. Packer asserted that the blessing of same-sex unions is a direct contradiction of Scripture and there can be no compromise on the issue.
"The Scripture teaching that is being denied is an element of the Gospel itself, that is God's message about how we sinners can be saved. If you refuse to repent, at some point where the Gospel requires you to repent, well, you are not walking according to the Gospel, and what Paul says is that your soul is in danger."
"Now I don't want to believe that, but I dare not disbelieve it - it's apostolic teaching, it's the word of God."
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08072105.html
Finally, yet another Christian who is unwilling to bend like grass in a windstorm to the homosexual agenda!!! But of course, the gay groups are probably going to come after him for "hate speech."