Anglicans Ablaze: Pat Robertson Says The Episcopal Church Is Becoming 'Apostate'

Anglicans Ablaze reports that Pat Robertson thinks the Anglican Communion will declare The Episcopal Church to be apostate:

In remarks made on the 700 Club on Wednesday, Robertson stated that "the whole Episcopal Church in America has left its roots" and that it being declared apostate "is on the way."

Robert H. Lundy, communications officer for the American Anglican Council, a conservative movement hoping to return The Episcopal Church to "an apostolic faith," told The Christian Post that he agreed with Robertson's assessment.

Although I agree that The Episcopal Church is apostate, the Anglican Communion will not declare TEC to be apostate.  Why not?  Well, the Anglican Communion itself is apostate and theologically liberal, particularly in England where the Archbishop of Canterbury heads up the council of bishops.  In the UK there is a strong push for the acceptance of openly homosexual ministers and bishops as well as the ordination of women.  None of this has been accepted as of yet but it is merely a matter of time before that happens in the United Kingdom.

The Global South, including the Sydney Anglicans, is also under assault by those promoting the immorality of the gay/lesbian/transgender agenda.  In Africa most of the provinces are morally conservative but unfortunately Evangelicalism and Reformed theology is no longer dominate but in fact Anglo-Catholic theology has taken the upper hand even in the Global South.  Sydney is probably the only province that still stands against the theology of glory and the semi-papist theology of the Tractarian movement.  Even in Sydney Evangelicals are too liberal because they insist that Anglo-Catholics are not lost but are simply separated brethren.

If Roman Catholicism is a false religion, it logically follows that Anglo-Catholicism is a false religion and that those who are caught up in those false gospels need conversion to the true Gospel of sovereign grace through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Of course, most Evangelicals are Arminians and are lost themselves--which explains why the Evangelicals and Catholics Together movement is alive and well.  Even Albert Mohler is no longer consistent on this point, even participating in a conservative Anglo-Catholic conference (see Mere Anglicanism) in South Carolina a couple of years ago and signing the Manhattan Declaration!  (See also:  AlbertMohler.com:  When the Lights Go Out:  The Death of a Denomination).

Pat Robertson is an Arminian and a Charismatic.  He thinks conservative Anglo-Catholics and Roman Catholics are saved and on their way to heaven.  In short, Pat Robertson is as lost as any "apostate" Episcopalian and so is the pope.

There is only one Gospel and those who preach another gospel are leading people astray.  (Galatians 1:6-9; Acts 4:10, 12; John 14:6; Romans 3:23-25; Jude 1:3).  Where in the following video by Archbishop Rowan Williams do you hear any appeal to the final authority of Scripture or the 39 Articles of Religion?









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EV News :: Archbishop of Canterbury to step down December 2012

Anglo-Catholic regalia hides the liberal within.

It looks like the infamous leader of the Anglican Communion is going to step down.  Unfortunately his replacement could be worse.  As a friend of mine likes to say, "Who knows what the devil is going to do?"  Of course the answer is, "God knows!"  

Article 6 

That some receive the gift of faith from God and others do not receive it proceeds from God's eternal decree, for “known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world” (Acts 15:18). “Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Ephesians 1:11). According to which decree, He graciously softens the hearts of the elect, however obstinate, and inclines them to believe, while He leaves the non-elect in His just judgment to their own wickedness and obduracy. And herein is especially displayed the profound, the merciful, and at the same time the righteous discrimination between men, equally involved in ruin; or that decree of election and reprobation revealed in the Word of God, which though men of perverse, impure and unstable minds wrest to their own destruction, yet to holy and pious souls affords unspeakable consolation.  (Canons of Dort, First Head of Doctrine:  Of Divine Predestination.  Article 6).

And even the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, which is the confessional statement of the Anglican formularies, says in Article XVII:

Article XVII

Of Predestination and Election

Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby, before the foundations of the world were laid, He hath constantly decreed by His counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom He hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation as vessels made to honour. Wherefore they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to God's purpose by His Spirit working in due season; they through grace obey the calling; they be justified freely; they be made sons of God by adoption; they be made like the image of His only-begotten Son Jesus Christ; they walk religiously in good works; and at length by God's mercy they attain to everlasting felicity.

As the godly consideration of Predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternal salvation to be enjoyed through Christ, as because it doth fervently kindle their love towards God: so for curious and carnal persons, lacking the Spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God's Predestination is a most dangerous downfall, whereby the devil doth thrust them either into desperation or into wretchlessness of most unclean living no less perilous than desperation.

Furthermore, we must receive God's promises in such wise as they be generally set forth in Holy Scripture; and in our doings that will of God is to be followed which we have expressly declared unto us in the word of God.

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The Gippsland Crisis | Theological Theology

Dr. Mark Thompson, Moore Theological College

Dr. Mark Thompson of Moore Theological College in Sydney posted the article, The Gippsland Crisis on his blog. While Dr. Thompson clearly has the moral issues right he also seems to be attacking the symptoms of the disease rather than the disease itself. That is, Thompson and the Anglican Church League and the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia have endorsed the Anglican Church in North America as an "orthodox" Anglican province of the Anglican Communion. Unfortunately, this enodorse completely ignores the fact that the Anglican Church in North America is predominately an Anglo-Catholic or Tractarian denomination or province and therefore is not "orthodoox" nor is it truly Christian.  The Protestant Reformation was a return to the catholic or universal doctrines of the first century church.  It is in fact the Roman Catholics, Anglo-Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Arminians and Pentecostals who have corrupted the plain teaching of the Scriptures, the only infallible record of apostolic doctrine and God's special revelation.

Moreover, the ACNA is an apostate denomination because it denies the soteriology of the Bible--justification by faith alone--and makes tradition an equal revelation with Scripture.  Confessional Anglicanism has its doctrinal standards laid out clearly in a literal reading of the Anglican Formularies, namely the Thirty-nine Aricles of Religion, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and the second Book of the Homilies.  I concede that the Ordinal is included as well, although apostolic succession does not follow from an episcopal form of church polity.  (See Declaration of Principles).

What Dr. Thompson does not seem to get is that once the door is open to making the church an authority over Scripture then the door is also open to revisionism once a church goes off in a modernist or postmodernist direction. When theology is done from below rather than accepting the final authority of God's written Word in Holy Scripture then it is only a matter of time before evil takes over. Not only this but to deny justification by faith alone and to make good works and morality a basis for saving faith is to deny the very Gospel itself. That means that even conservative Anglo-Catholics, Roman Catholics, and the Eastern Orthodox are lost because of their semi-pelagianism and their confusing of law with gospel, merits with grace, and sanctification with justification. Moreover, once the liberals infiltrate a church--even Protestant churches--it is a short time before the dissimulation and relativism produces a propaganda approach like this one:

This is the context in which the actions of the Bishop of Gippsland, John McIntyre, have taken place. Last December the diocesan newspaper in Gippsland announced the appointment of an openly homosexual man as priest in charge of one of the parishes of the diocese. Since then, voices of protest have been raised and the bishop has attempted to take refuge behind the strict wording of only one part of the Lambeth resolution, the refusal to accept the ordination of people involved in homosexual behaviour. He, very clearly, did not ordain this person, he simply appointed him, in full knowledge of his situation (after all, a picture of the man and his partner was included in the diocesan newspaper) to be the senior minister in a local Christian congregation.  (Mark Thompson).

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Bishop N. T. Wright: Reason Takes Precedence in the Homosexuality Debate

Obviously, Wright knows that following sinful desires is absolutely wrong but instead of sticking with Scripture as the final authority and church tradition as a secondary authority against homosexual behavior, he wishes to appeal to reason as the ultimate authority. Hence, he says that homosexuality is open for debate but polygamy or heterosexual promiscuity is not. Clearly, Wright's agenda is to muddy the waters with gray areas and ambiguity and relativism just as any theological liberal would. For Wright God's law is open for revision by modern standards of political correctness and modern cultural relativism. Wright reveals himself as a false prophet here and all should view him with extreme skepticism.