02-22-2008, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim Some of the complementarians with a bleaker outlook are saying they won't be surprised if the PCA fights this battle within a generation due to the "evangelical feminist" influence at some of the seminaries and churches. |
R. L. Dabney once wrote: Quote: |
The fantastic suggestion of yesterday, entertained only by a few fanatics, and then mentioned only by the sober to be ridiculed, is today the audacious reform, and will be tomorrow the recognized usage.
| The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Dabney was truly a prophet! | Along those same lines, here is a quote from William B. Sprague's "Danger of Being Over Wise" Quote: |
And in addition to these particular facts, there is another of a more general nature, which awakens my apprehension not less than those which I have already stated — I refer to the gradual and silent change which is evinced by the manner in which this subject is treated in the ordinary intercourse of life. Men who, a year ago, felt nothing but shuddering when it was introduced, have come now to speak of it with timid caution, as if they were speaking on an unsettled question, upon which it were wise not fully to commit themselves; while some of them actually half adopt the principle, and others show that scarcely any of their former scruples now remain. And wherefore is this change? It is because the subject has gradually become familiar to them; and while the current in favor of this innovation has been imperceptibly becoming stronger, no effort has been made to resist it; and even ministers of the gospel have been silent, because they have apprehended no serious danger, or possibly because they have feared to sound the alarm, lest it should subject them to the charge of being hostile to one of the best of causes; and hence these individuals, by a process which they themselves can hardly analyze, and for reasons of which they can give little account, have been brought to their present posture of indecision at least, if not of actually favoring the views which, not long ago, they regarded with horror.
| This quote is in regards to the superimposition of grape juice over wine in the Lord's Supper but the idea is the same.
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