(By Bill Bumpas, One News Now). In an attempt to clarify its stance on human sexuality, the Presbyterian Church (USA) has appeared to muddy the waters even more.
The denomination felt the need to respond to the beliefs on biblical sexuality laid out in “The Nashville Statement” by a coalition of conservative evangelical leaders – which says, in part: “We did not make ourselves. We are not our own. Our true identity, as male and female persons, is given by God. It is not only foolish, but hopeless, to try to make ourselves what God did not create us to be.”
The PCUSA’s Office of Theology & Worship made this statement in response: “One way to put it is that, as a denomination, we have become agnostic around issues of homosexuality.”
OneNewsNow sought reaction from Carmen Fowler LaBerge, president of the Presbyterian Lay Committee.
“For the church to suggest that she could be agnostic about anything or agnostic in general is a pretty devastating revelation of her failure to know God and how God has revealed Himself,” she states.
What else cannot be known, wonders the host of The Reconnect, a daily Christian talk-radio program.
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There are three centers of gravity or groups the Administrative State PCUSA exists to serve. And as in any Kleptocracy in history, the primary reflexive response of the entity is calculate how much to extract from its base, and what it chooses to give back in return for their continued support. Group one is of course the paid employees of the Administrative State, everything from Louisville to the Presbyteries. Second are the various alphabet soup of affinity, tribal, identity sub groups around matters of race, gender and sex. Third is the establishment PCUSA, the academy, academia, the school house, various patrons, clergy, elders connected or have a deep affinity for the Administrative State. As stated many times, the combined end strength of those groups number no more than 70K, But all and everything the Administrative State PCUSA does, says, acts, behaves, writes or comments in always in deference to those various groups. Today its sexual agnosticism, whatever that means, tomorrow its likely to race bating and anti-police bigotry narratives, next day maybe its their antisemitic tendencies. You just never know.
The word ‘clarity’ used in headline, and as a theme, is perfect. The confusion over scripture interpretation is reaching a point of downright mental illness. I’d wager mainline churches are actually causing mental illness and exacerbating existing mental illness, although I have no scientific evidence to back it up; just an observation from talking to main liners the past ten years.