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Originally Posted by armourbearer  Quote:
Originally Posted by C. Matthew McMahon Are any of you aware of any documents or books or other resources that would have something like a "Christians Bill of Rights" besides the BCO of a respective denomination? | Most "cases" are usually decided by negation. What do the church standards say it is our duty to do, e.g., in the Larger Catechism's exposition of the ten commandments? and from there we may deduce areas of freedom. |
I agree.
A Christian "Bill of Rights" sounds like something a fundamentalist American would come up with. I understand what Matthew (the Admin) is driving at but it seems that the principle we're after is the RPW and the Biblical notion of Christian Liberty doesn't compute for a lot of folks who draft up these "Bill of Rights" things.
Usually, people are thinking of their liberty in their freedom to do whatever they want to do but the Word of God circumscribes both what Churches and men are ordained to be obedient unto. On the one hand, the Church has a duty to teach men and women what the nature of their liberty is. On the other hand, in the spelling out of that duty, it proscribes the Church from binding the consciences of men to any other rule.
My immediate reaction to white robes would be to paraprahse Jeremiah 19:5: "...which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind...."
That seems to be the most fundamental "right" of a Christian not to be held captive in his conscience to anything that God Himself has not commanded.