Originally Posted by Zenas

Is theonomy even really an "issue"?

On the whole I am concerned for the PCA. As I understand it, Covenant Seminary is producing more and more long-day creationists that fall outside of the Confession and are taking more and more exceptions to it, and it's permissible. As an outsider looking in, there seems to be some sort of status quo of complacency and there just seems to be something altogether fishy about it. I can't put my finger on what exactly what it is, perhaps because it's many things, but it seems like the PCA is becomming more and more infected with a contemporary evangelical taint that I would think was altogether foreign within a confessional, Reformed denomination.

I'm in one of the small Presbyterian denominations. We'll probably be ok as long as we don't bleed members faster than we take them on, and our existence is only so long as God has provided. The PCA need not worry about bleeding members, however, but with every member they take on, it seems as if they are sacrificing a part of their identity. With the PCA being the largest conservative Presbyterian denomination in America, that worries me terribly.



As for talk of the ARP merging with anybody, fat chance. You come argue with the ladies in my church about giving up the denomination that their great-great-great-great uncle's cousin's father was pastor in.