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."
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My thoughts:
I think the majority of born again Christians would agree that the 'sinner's prayer' is not a bunch of magic words to say that get you into a right relationship with God, but heresy?? That is a pretty stong word. How sad the Bishops words are! We can be in a right relationship with God through his son Jesus.
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