Thursday, July 24, 2008

Conscience and logic: ‘I can do no other’

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/07/24/conscience-and-logic-i-can-do-no-other/#more-4414

[Anglican Mainstream] 24 Jul 2008--The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, one of just two bishops in the Church of England to boycott the Lambeth Conference entirely, insisted today that he is being true to biblical authority.

Explaining a decision that he admits has been painful for a man who sought refuge in Britain from persecution, and who has been at the heart of the two previous convocations at Canterbury – first as Coordinator in 1988 and then as a Member of the Steering Committee in 1998 - he said it was a matter of ‘conscience and logic’.

He said that ‘persistent false teaching’ and ‘persistent sexual immorality without repentance’ had both led to his decision

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