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Rootage and Pottage
Abstract: Excerpts from an open letter to Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson from Bishop Emeritus George Paul Mocko.
From An Open Letter to Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson from Bishop Emeritus George Paul Mocko:
"So next we launch into a study on the authority of Scripture, which, excuse me, early signs are that it will tell us that we can continue to claim that Scripture is the 'source and norm of our faith and life,' as we clearly brush aside Scripture and turn to other sources and norms. We are preparing to sell our birthright as the foremost biblical theologians of the West for the pottage of this culture's approval, as we accommodate to its desires and demands in its extraordinary and overwhelming obsession with, and, worship of sex. What hubris possesses this generation to think it is qualified to rewrite the teaching of what has been the faith for 2,000 years, and a thousand before that.
If we succeed in doing this, we will sacrifice the credibility of all our teaching. The very thing that has made our teaching notable has been its solid rootage in Scripture. Make that optional, take it away, and, who cares what we say about anything? (Emphasis added.)
