Monday, May 21, 2007

“Interpreting Christ in a Pluralistic World”

http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/worship/gfr050424.html

[Washington National Cathedral] 21 May 2007--I can no longer think about Jesus as the only way to God and to a saving faith. How one comes into a relationship with God has taken on a meaning that it did not have in my younger years.

I personally reject the claim that Christianity has the truth and all other religions are in error. Unfortunately, this is the position of the new Pope, Benedict XVI, who says salvation is only possible through Jesus Christ. I think it is a mistaken view to say Christianity is superior to Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism and that Christ is the only way to God and salvation.

George Regas preached this sermon at the Washington National Cathedral. He and other liberals like him claim to represent 'true Anglicanism'. Here is what the Thirty-Nine Articles says about the "liberation of pluralism".

"They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved."

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