{"id":15747,"date":"2012-02-24T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T23:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15747"},"modified":"2012-02-24T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T23:21:01","slug":"a-parishioner-who-disbelieves-in-the-resurrection-asks-if-he-should-stay-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-parishioner-who-disbelieves-in-the-resurrection-asks-if-he-should-stay-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"A parishioner who disbelieves in the Resurrection asks if he should stay in the Anglican Church of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Angus Hamilton doesn\u2019t believe that God is a trinity of persons, doesn\u2019t believe in the supernatural, the Resurrection, the after-life, heaven and hell or that the Bible is God\u2019s written revelation to man.<\/p>\n

This has driven him to wonder whether he should leave the Anglican Church of Canada. Angus, if your fear is that you may feel out of place if you continue in the Anglican Church of Canada, rest assured, you will fit right in.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a> (page 1)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in a God of the Universe who created the laws of physics and chemistry and the processes that have enabled life to evolve and to continue evolving on planet earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe in a personal God, in an old avuncular figure who created the world and all that is in it about 7,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the Bible is a valuable book of wisdom to be read as all great literature is read, \u2013 as stories that convey an important message.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe that the Bible is literally true. \u201cI believe that the idea of heaven and hell was conceived by a tribal leader who couldn\u2019t otherwise persuade his tribe to do what he thought they should do, and that it has been widely used in governance ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe in an after-life, in heaven and hell. \u201cI believe there is a higher power that mankind does not yet understand, just as it did not understand electromagnetic radiation until about 300 years ago. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in the supernatural. Thus there is much in the Bible, including the resurrection story, that I do not believe. \u201cI believe in the teachings of Jesus that can definitely be attributed to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe that everything in the Bible attributed to Jesus was said or done by him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the concept of \u2018Church\u2019 is important, and that a quite different form of church will evolve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe that the established churches can continue with \u2018business as usual.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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