Since I'm chief of sinners here, let me say that I do write with the public in mind. I get frequent posts off list about the things I write and so I am reminded that lots of folk read this board beyond subscribers. When I sin (and I do frequently!) I am quite willing to be confronted with it and to be given an opportunity to repent. I make no pretense to having achieved some extraordinary degree of sanctity.

Presently the FV folk are in a lather about my use of the rope metaphor.

Let me try again to clear up misrepresentations. No, the metaphor doesn't imply anything about the work of the FV/NPP committee - as I know nothing about the workings of the committee.

No, it doesn't imply that the actual work of any presbytery is a lynching.

No, the metaphor isn't demeaning to the work of church courts. Have none of these literate fellows ever heard the expression: "enough rope to hang himself?" Is suicide a more morally correct metaphor than lynching?

Why aren't my FV critics as upset about Wilson's and Wilkins' view of slavery as they as they about my use of metaphor and irony?

It's funny too to see the moral indignation of the same sort of folk who gave us PPT. I think their reaction to my comments more than justifies my deep suspicion about the intent and purpose of the document: to shame folk like me into shutting up about the FV errors.

Well it hasn't worked. As of now I remain impenitent. Presbyteries and General Assemblies and especially my own Synod need to address these issues directly and discipline the errorists as soon as possible.

rsc

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R. Scott Clark, D.Phil
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