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Old 05-23-2008, 10:19 AM
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Thank you Marty. Please keep up, as you come across them (and you have time).

I appreciated both of the reactions. I suppose I have more in common with th.goodwin there, but I also appreciated the Holmes reply, including his comment:
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...my overwhelming sense is that the real problem is that WTS was not confessional enough, or at least not secure enough in its own confessional status. What was needed was a paragraph, at most two, saying ‘Peter Enns published the following statements which we judge to contradict such-and-such an article of the Westminster Confession of Faith,’ which could then have been argued over by interested parties. Instead,... [emphasis Holmes' own]
I think the last is true, and demonstrates the lingering ambiguity in WTS' recent quest to discover its own identity (or find it again). I wish them well--for Machen's, Young's, and Stonehouse' sakes, and others'.
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