I would be interested to know how many Anglican Church of Canada clergy believe in the reality of Hell. I suspect the number is very small.<\/p>\n
When Hell is expunged from Christianity, there is no longer any need for a Saviour since there is nothing to save us from; sins are neither judged nor punished, so Jesus didn\u2019t need to take them upon himself and die for them. Since Jesus didn\u2019t die for our sins, he wouldn’t need to be God incarnate, physically resurrected, born of a virgin or sinless. Perhaps, as Anglican priest manqu\u00e9, Tom Harpur suggests, Jesus never actually existed. As you can see, without Hell, the whole thing falls apart \u2013 just like the ACoC. Not to worry, though, there is still social justice.<\/p>\n
Here<\/a> is an interview with a clergyman who isn\u2019t at all interested in being saved from Hell:<\/p>\n I came to be passionate about justice through Jesus, as I was introduced to him by figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Desmond Tutu<\/strong>. They introduced me to a Jesus that I wanted to give my life too \u2013 not because if I didn\u2019t I would go to hell, but because he was showing a way of life that was life, that was truth!\u00a0When I hang out with my homeless friends, when I engage in social action, to me it is like a spiritual practice, I feel closer to Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I trust everyone has noticed my restraint in not making any cheap jokes about how the ACoC has invented – or “reimagined”, to use the in vogue non-word – its own particularly torturous version of hell: sitting through an ACoC sermon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I would be interested to know how many Anglican Church of Canada clergy believe in the reality of Hell. I suspect the number is very small. When Hell is expunged from Christianity, there is no longer any need for a … Continue reading