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Originally Posted by KMK  I noticed that some subscribe to the 3FU instead of the WCF. I had always thought the WCF was considered an 'improvement' over the 3FU. What are some of the reasons churches would subscribe to 3FU instead of WCF? |
Question 82 of the Heidelberg Catechism...
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I like the 3FU, especially the Canons of Dordt and the Heidelberg Catechism... My church, though, is WCF-dominant, although the Canons are often referred to in sermons, etc. I have therefore, but not for ethnic reasons as this is the U.S. and ours is becoming an "indigenously American" church, thrown in my lot with the WCF, except for one or two things here and there.
Didn't the newer version of the WCF expunge the language regarding the Pope being the Antichrist? I was told that in the long ago, when I was a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Are we supposed to state in a confession who "the Antichrist" is - or are there many Antichrists? (1 John 2:18; 2 John 7
et alii...)
Also, I have this question, as I'm "just learning" in so many aspects: why are confessions or catechisms so relied upon? Can a person just be a thoroughly Reformed Christian and rely upon the Bible alone? Why and/or why not? (Having been forced to memorize the Baltimore Catechism in grade school, I sort of
freak when I hear catechisms and confessions being so heavily depended upon...
)
Thank you, Pastor Klein, for starting this thread.
Margaret