Today's Devotion: Job 42:3 (New International Version): You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

Job is answering God, who, in turn has been asked by Job to explain his dilemma. He acknowledges that he does not have the ability or the right to question God.

Today's Comments: Do we have a right to question God? Do we have a right to question the Bible? Some say "yes," but most say "No." Many people will acknowledge that the Bible was written for all time and that what is true in the scripture in the past is true today. Richard Hooker, who is considered the one man who has developed the definitive theology in Anglicanism, explains that God has given man scripture, reason, and tradition. It is through these vehicles that we understand the true nature of God. He suggests that even law, which was laid down by the Bible, can be changed, if the reason for the law no longer exists. One, for example, realizes that the Old Testament covenants changed because the Bible, itself, explains that a new covenant was established by Jesus. Does Hooker leave an opening, when we go back to Paul's letters and his discussion concerning the role of women in the church? We must ask ourselves, has the reason for Paul's prohibition of women taking leadership in the church significantly changed so that women might now become priests, or even bishops? Can that same reasoning be applied to the blessing of homosexual unions? Do the founders and and those influential throughout history in the Anglican Church suggest that schism between the conservative and liberal wings of the church is recommended or even warranted? This will be the subject upon which I will write a paper for my Anglican Studies Class, under the mentorship of Greg Peters, Torey Honors Professor of Medieval Theology at Biola University. I pray that the Lord will guide me in my studies, because this could be more than a paper. It could be the basis of my recommendation to our special discernment committee concerning Blessed Sacrament Episcopal Church's continued participation as a unit of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America.