01-08-2008, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie Okay, I know that you can revise a confession of faith, but I tend to get the impression that once you go down a revisionist road then the whole content of the WCF (for instance) is up in the air.
Currently, I only have one exception (that I know of) to the Westminster Standards - that of 25:6 were it affirms that the papacy is in the church, and that the papacy is the man of sin. However, I would be reluctant to call for this to be revised, because once you start, where do you stop?
Consequently, if I was elected to office I would decline, because I would not swear to something with crossed fingers. |
It should be done. I forgot who said something to the effect: It is great that the confessions were written, but lamentable people stopped writing them. Something along those lines...  WOuld it not stop most debates where 2 sides use the same phrase and make it mean something completely different? It may offend too many and ruffle feathers, was not Ecclesia Reformata, Semper Reformanda verbi dei: the war cry of the reformation? Yet the irony is I have read that even this phrase is translated differently..lol I guess the hard part is to have both a backward and forward site. I for one give tremendous prasie to Luther et al for not remaining frozen in time. Hence, neither should we. Yet we must also be cautious to make the Word of God the driving force. | I agree in theory, just not sure that it works in practice. 
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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)
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