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Bishops and the Bible

What is it with some of them? They just don’t want to do the job they signed up to do.

Take, for example, Michael Ingham - bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster in Canada. There he is on the right in his nice bishop clothes. When he’s not picking on Christians, he likes to rip chunks out of the Bible.

In his recent Easter message, “First death, then resurrection“, he writes this:

God is a God of Resurrection. This is the truth we celebrate as Christians. But the sequence of events is that crucifixion and death happen first.

All true, but he does not say what you think he’s saying for in the previous paragraph he tells us this:

It’s important to understand that God was not behind the crucifixion. God was in the Resurrection. God is not a crucifying God, not a God of cruelty and domination. God is an Easter God, a God of new life who brings about miracles of transformation even in the bleakest of circumstances.

There’s nothing so perniciously dangerous as a half truth. The half truth that Ingham insists upon is that the God is not a crucifying God.

However, God disagrees. Consider this:

Isaiah 53:10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

Here is the wonder of Easter. Not only is God at hand in the Resurrection, He is also fully the God of the Cross. He designed it, He intended it. Indeed, the Resurrection would be nothing without the Cross for the Resurrection requires the Cross in order to have any effect. God did not simply raise Jesus from the dead to make the best of a bad job - He raised Him from the dead to complete the job that they had started, Father and Son.

Posted by on 04/02 at 03:03 PM

If he’s not a crucifying God, how come Ingham keeps crucifying orthodox preachers!

Posted by Gordon Cheng on 04/02 at 05:55 PM

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