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“Episcopal Bishop calls individual salvation 'heresy,' 'idolatry'”
by Associated Press   
July 9th, 2009

ANAHEIM, CA - Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says it's "heresy" to believe that an individual can be saved through a sinner's prayer of repentance.

In her opening address to the church's General Conference in California, Jefferts Schori called that "the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God."

The presiding bishop said that view is "caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus."

According to Schori, it is heresy to believe that an individual's prayer can achieve a saving relationship with God. "That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy."

Editors Note.....It has often been the case that it is the religous leaders that oppose the truth of God. Jesus said to the religous leaders of His day. "But woe unto you scribes and phariseees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yoursellves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in" Matthew 23:13. Salvation is by grace through repentance and faith, revealed in a hundred scriptures. It is true that salvation cannot be obtained through empty words, but that does not negate the truth that God will always hear and save the sinner who cries out in repentance and faith. A thousand scriptures teach that a man or a woman can be in a right relationship with God and that individual salvation is essential for a man or woman to escape the fires of hell and dwell in God's presence for ever. The true believer is called to seperate from apostasy and to come out from such heresy.

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