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Called out because of their false doctrine, an unprecedented bill to censure a preacher for speaking truth to power.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/02/called-out-because-of-their-false.htmlTaking the step to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives to censure the Bishop will not accomplish anything except to underline the hypocrisy of those who support the resolution. Those who support doing this are showing us their lack of conviction, and if they claim to be Christian, it is a demonstration of gross hypocrisy. They are setting themselves aside as the wolves in sheep's clothing, or as the Apostle Jude put it, they are intruders in the church, bringing in licentiousness and denying the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They have found a new savior to worship and adore, and they are abandoning the one who actually preached and taught values.
Of course, it's no surprise that Trump was offended by a basic doctrinal principle of Christianity. He is not only not a professing Christian, but has been openly defiant in his rejection of the Evangelical interpretation of a Christian conversion experience, claiming he has done nothing requiring God's forgiveness. Those within his entourage, or within the Republican party, who chose to defend and support him, are also denying aspects of their own faith. It's a choice, and they are accountable for it.
I've read and heard a lot of critics of the Bishop's sermon from among the fundamentalists of Falwellian ilk, and the Charistmatic prosperity gospel preachers of Pat Robertson tradition, and they are way outside of the boundaries of Christian orthodoxy. Their interpretation of the Bible, which didn't develop until the middle to late 19th century, doesn't take into consideration the interpretive standard of the words of Christ himself as the criterion by which all of the rest of the Bible is to be interpreted. So they have developed a very legalistic religion, in contrast to the grace-based Christian gospel of Christ.
But it appears that Trump is now the standard by which conservative Evangelicals interpret the Bible, and which dictates the practice of their Christian faith. All of those things upon which Jesus placed primary importance as expressions of values held by those who professed faith in the Christian gospel, from the beatitudes, including peacemaking, mercy and seeking after righteousness, to loving one's neighbor, and loving one's enemies, along with grace, forgiveness and mercy, are not relevant or important to conservative Evangelicals. It's what Trump thinks and says that are the gospel, not the Bible's writers.
And that has led us to this point, where Congress is considering a resolution that violates the first amerndment of the Constitution, the censureship of an Episcopalian Bishop, for preaching truth to power.
Of course, it's no surprise that Trump was offended by a basic doctrinal principle of Christianity. He is not only not a professing Christian, but has been openly defiant in his rejection of the Evangelical interpretation of a Christian conversion experience, claiming he has done nothing requiring God's forgiveness. Those within his entourage, or within the Republican party, who chose to defend and support him, are also denying aspects of their own faith. It's a choice, and they are accountable for it.
I've read and heard a lot of critics of the Bishop's sermon from among the fundamentalists of Falwellian ilk, and the Charistmatic prosperity gospel preachers of Pat Robertson tradition, and they are way outside of the boundaries of Christian orthodoxy. Their interpretation of the Bible, which didn't develop until the middle to late 19th century, doesn't take into consideration the interpretive standard of the words of Christ himself as the criterion by which all of the rest of the Bible is to be interpreted. So they have developed a very legalistic religion, in contrast to the grace-based Christian gospel of Christ.
But it appears that Trump is now the standard by which conservative Evangelicals interpret the Bible, and which dictates the practice of their Christian faith. All of those things upon which Jesus placed primary importance as expressions of values held by those who professed faith in the Christian gospel, from the beatitudes, including peacemaking, mercy and seeking after righteousness, to loving one's neighbor, and loving one's enemies, along with grace, forgiveness and mercy, are not relevant or important to conservative Evangelicals. It's what Trump thinks and says that are the gospel, not the Bible's writers.
And that has led us to this point, where Congress is considering a resolution that violates the first amerndment of the Constitution, the censureship of an Episcopalian Bishop, for preaching truth to power.