Is the US Episcopalian church better than the rest of Christianity?

Question

... Since they do not consider gay people as an abomination?

At last a church in sync with her time?

I enjoyed the comment "Faith determined by popular vote....."
Is that worse than faith determined by a bunch of old men power driven meeting in a closed door council such Nicee 325 where they decided what the faith will be?

"no man is better than another man. Christianity teaches us" answer someone.
So why a gay man can not be a bishop?
I am not biased about gay, but if the above were true then my question would be irrelevant.

Answer 1

Faith determined by popular vote......it's just scary that the core beliefs of a religion change on a simple vote. And I don't think it is necessarily a good thing to be in sync with what is going on in the world these days. Have you looked around lately?

Answer 2

I am a christian but i went to an episcopalian school they have many thing different from a christian school they have a woman priests, the men priest can get married and when it comes to sermon it's very solemn and it's the only service that i have attended that people actually drink from the cup............... also among my friends i am the only christian they are all episcopalian

but to answer your question if your basis of a better church is how they treat gays then you are bias there are many wonderful thing in being a christian, the democracy of thinking and doing what you want and not be influenced of what the church is saying.
BTW what for you is the definition of being in syn in time?

Answer 3

Yes, they are a much better church if you want a church that worships the ideas of men and not the God of Heaven. Before I ever became a believer I used to be puzzled when I read news stories about women wanting to become priests. I had never been to church in my life but I had enough sense to think "Gee, if these people worship their God and He says ...." then what does that mean? Does it mean they don't care about what their God has to say?

By the way, Christians don't consider gay people to be an abomination or anyone else for that matter. True Christians just run their churches the way that the Bible tells them to, that's all.

1 Timothy 3:1 Faithful is this word: If anyone aspires to the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. 2 It is necessary, therefore, for a bishop to be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful at teaching; 3 not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money; 4 one ruling his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence; 5 (for if one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same judgment as the devil. 7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 8 Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not being given to much wine, not greedy for money, 9 holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. 10 But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being irreproachable. 11 Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children well, and their own houses. 13 For those who have served well as deacons obtain a standing for themselves and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Obviously someone who lives a life of unrepentant sin doesn't qualify to hold a church office.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Answer 4

People are people, and no man is better than another man. Christianity teaches us that, and if you understood our faith you wouldn't have to ask questions like that. The Church is on the title or the building, its the people.

Answer 5

Like the millions/billions of star lights we see in the skies that are from a dead distant past, we are the dead that is yet to come.

No cure, space travel, medicine, armies, political agenda, religion, or amount of money in this world can save us from it.

As sure as young Einstein discovered the theory of relativity (E=MC2), he too has discovered in his dying days (as did so many others going/ gone his way), LIFE=DEATH2.

So, find comfort knowing that any amount of suffering we endure is really a blink in the cycle of the universe we came from and that relief is DEATH!

Answer 6

yes it is better cuz there is NOTHING worng with a gay person hes or she is like you and me but just like the same sex there nothung wroung with that nice question