{"id":56129,"date":"2016-10-26T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guarding_the_deposit_apostolic_truth_for_an_apostolic_church\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T17:56:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T17:56:42","slug":"guarding_the_deposit_apostolic_truth_for_an_apostolic_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56129","title":{"rendered":"(CEEC) Guarding the Deposit: Apostolic Truth for an Apostolic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can you do if you agree with this paper? The main argument has been:<\/p>\n<p>that all sexual practice outside heterosexual marriage was reckoned as sinful in the eyes of Jesus and his apostles;<br \/>\nthat homosexual practice was a part of this and that same-sex marriage, far from providing a legitimate context for this practice, would have been seen as a parody of God\u2019s intention for marriage;<br \/>\nthat such issues of sexual immorality were not a second-order issue for the apostles, but were consistently denounced by them, and certainly would never have been embraced by them in their quest for Christian unity;<br \/>\nthat the role of a bishop was developed in the early Church precisely to safe-guard these apostolic norms pertaining to both doctrine and ethics and that bishops are therefore to be seen as \u201d\u02dcapostolic guardians\u2019&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anglicanmainstream.org\/guarding-the-deposit-apostolic-truth-for-an-apostolic-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you do if you agree with this paper? The main argument has been: that all sexual practice outside heterosexual marriage was reckoned as sinful in the eyes of Jesus and his apostles; that homosexual practice was a part<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56129\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,175,389,168,514,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}