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So what do you say is the 'sin that leads to death'? Do you subscribe then to a Catholic-style concept of there being mortal and venial sins?

It will mark the beginning of the end of the US being the paramount world power.

Naz, when I say 'BCP', I mean the Book of Common Prayer ie: the 1662 version. We still use this, whatever New Agey version TEC might use this week. The confession therein in the liturgy for the visitation of the sick should not be conflated with the Catholic sacrament of penance but is rather an...

Where in the BCP does it authorise private auricular confession? We have a BCP service in our church and I have never heard it or seen it referred to. The BCP contains the 39 Arts, which expressly state that there are only two sacraments: baptism and the Lord's Supper. They exclude 'penance'.

The 39 Arts and the Prayer Book are normative for Anglicanism in a way that Newman and the Oxford Movement aren't, despite his special pleading in Tract 90 to the contrary.

Ah, thanks, that heresy. Rather like the Episcopagan Church, then, definitely not an Anglican then, whatever the lable. Naz, you asked about Anglican attitudes to mortal -v- venial sins. There's no such distinction in either the 39 Arts or the Prayer Book; the Absolution in the latter covers...

Indeed - see my post above. But your position on mortal and venial sins does not align with traditional Anglicanism so my original question remains.

The British People? Who they? I don't recall being asked about it! You may like these people. They are in the UK but on your side of the Pond, you might like to try The American Anglican Council or the Anglican Communion Network or the Anglican Province of America.

I would kind of agree with you, although perhaps not in such an extreme way. For me, Anglicanism is about the Prayer Book, the 39 Arts and Cranmer's homilies, the Church Councils and other parts of Church Tradition. From this perspective, certain parts of the Anglican Communion (notably TEC)...

What's that when it's at home? We don't have such types this side of the Pond.

...and how does it differ from the soteriology outlined in the section of the 39 Articles I linked to?

Why, then, are you Anglican?

Indeed. Nazaroo, you really shouldn't be an Anglican if you don't for example, agree with this, as appears to be the case. If you want to be a 'Me, Jesus and My Bible'-type, then Anglicanism really isn't for you and you'd be better off starting your own little independent fundamentalist...

Yet your doctrine doesn't line up with Anglicanism or indeed evangelicalism (if that's what you imply by 'believing what the Bible teaches')...?

Just to answer one point: Jesus was fully human and fully divine.

Well, there are such beasts - Doubting Thomas is one such non-apostate. But the vast majority of right-thinking US Anglicans are leaving TEC and seeking alternative episcopal oversight on one form or another - it's complicated but basically they remain Anglicans, just not members of TEC...

Nazaroo, I can't figure you out. Your profile states you're Anglican, yet you don't subscribe to Anglican soteriology but instead seem bent on resurrecting the Torah. Please explain yourself!

Yes, folks, on Aug 2, unless Congress votes to increase it. Your views: should Congress up the ceiling or should there be belt-tightening in Washington?

The term 'labyrinth' can also be used as a symbolic prayer journey; this is the way in which we have used the term at our church. Here's a Baptist example of a labyrinth, and another one here.

What is meant by the term 'labyrinth' in this context? I would answer that it depends on the context and, as such, I'll attempt a qualified defence. Labyrinths have historically been used for both pagan and Christian purposes through the centuries. As far as the latter goes, they were meant to...