[Apologetics] Anglican Bishop Warns Same-Sex Unions Carry Eternal Cost

[Art Kelly]

Bishop Warns Same-Sex Unions Carry Eternal Cost 
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
June 05, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - The crisis within the world's 77
million-strong Anglican (Episcopalian) Church over
homosexuality goes beyond an issue of human sexuality,
to the far deeper questions of the authority of
scripture and eternal salvation, a leading
conservative bishop has warned.

As such, it is a make-or-break issue, and more serious
than previous doctrinal disputes within the
denomination, he said.

How the church deals with the crisis will show
Christians' willingness to obey biblical teachings
"despite the unpopularity which this may bring in the
world and in the church," Anglican Archbishop of
Sydney Peter Jensen told a conference in New Zealand.

"I seriously believe that we have before us a struggle
for the soul of the Anglican Church," he said,
acknowledging that those who shared his point of view
were labeled "obsessed, fanatical, homophobic,
negative, fundamentalist and puritan."

Differences in the worldwide Anglican Church (Anglican
Communion) over homosexuality widened into a gulf
after the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church in the
United States (ECUSA) in 2003 ordained an openly
homosexual priest as bishop of New Hampshire.

The fracture deepened with a decision by some Anglican
churches in Canada to bless same-sex "marriages."

Broadly speaking, the split has divided increasingly
liberal Western Anglican churches from its
counterparts in the developing world and their more
orthodox views.

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