Christian Clarity Review

Seeing the result of the more obvious beasts of the lie of free will ravaging the sheep of the ECUSA, those within it now look Elsewhere as they are to this hour to cowardly and lack Christ in them to cast out the wicked from among themselves, having been taught since youth that casting out any for any reason whatsoever “isn’t the love of God.” –which lie they will take with them to the next place they arrive –and then wish to have the honored positions of the new along with their old lies in a cup of mixed wine.

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“I was a “____”. I’ve got experience.

What’s that?

Kind of like an elder –almost a priest.

You were a leader?

Absolutely.

So you presided over the ruin?

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And for what do they search, as they look to jump a ship they did not build and not being carpenters themselves?

A place where seminaries and supposed truth-fountains, ‘rich heritage’ and traditions, even a few new ones will cover up, even for a time that the lie of free will is a lie. They look not for Jesus Christ nor call out to Him as He really Is, but look for a place ready-made, a pew already built and old whose rot is not yet evident; a clean place to sit and rest for a moment before plunging back into the lie full tilt. And yet the old pews are all corrupt because they are all of the free will lie. As the city so the piney woods and the desert.

So: they turn to the old ways, the wicked paths of heresy grown so old and so covered with time and the evils of the world that it looks to be not a device but a natural mountain to the eyes that see only the world and things of it. It seems to be new raw material from which to build a better social life at Church, one less quarrelsome, less contentious, more ‘conservative’ and ‘family oriented.” Now they will do whatever They Say as long as it is Nice.

Satan wreaks one of his own devices in the eyes of those who at least have not been taken with his more heinous abominations, and just ‘happens’ by with an ambulance as the souls flee from the flames . He reaches out his hand and says “Need a lift? A warm cup of coffee perhaps? A blanket? There’s shelter just up the road a bit. Everybody is welcome. Choose. Oh –I hear They Say some of the same catch words you use “re-newing”, “fulfilling”, “peaceful”. You know, all the bells and whistles. There’s always room for more.”

excerpted from: Anglican Options: Rome or Orthodoxy?

There was a time when I would also nod my head in an understanding gesture when this kind of comment was made, so I expect many doubters when I now, in all honesty, after six months as an Eastern Rite priest, write what follows. I understand your concerns, but I can tell you that the Liturgies of St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil no longer seem complicated and long. They are now exciting and re-newing. Having made a choice between the modern Roman Rite, formal BCP worship, and the Byzantine Rite, I am now delighted and thankful to worship with the Fathers. Orthodoxy is right belief and right worship.

So a professional priest who has all along actively engaged in priestcraft seeks better digs for him and his. “It’s okay.” he says smiling, “I checked it out. They’ve got rides, coffee and blankets over here. Over here we can be Somebody Too. And I know. I’ve been everywhere, man. I’ve been through it all.”

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2 Peter 2:12-22 But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption, receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you; having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse; having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness; but had reproof of his own wickedness– the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the folly of the prophet. These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever . For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error, promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery. For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first. For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud.

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1 Peter 3:18-22 for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, in which also going he preached to the spirits which are in prison, heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: which figure also now saves you, even baptism, not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the demand as before God of a good conscience, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to him.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen