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 6/14/14 4:45 PM |
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"In days of increasing encroachment upon the liberties which are God-given, the charter of liberty needs again to be resounded: “God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are, in any thing, contrary to his Word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.” (XX, ii). And when the church thinks that the modes of worship are a matter of human discretion, we need to be recalled to the regulative principle that “the acceptable way of worshipping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scripture.” (XXI, i). Or, when the sacred ties of matrimony are lightly regarded and even desecrated, what could be more relevant than the principles and restrictions enunciated in chapter XXIV of the Westminster Confession." (Prof J. Murray)The alternative to Calvinism is man's sinful conviction that God needs his help to save him. The WCF spells out with total accuracy the doctrines of Scripture. Those who cannot perceive this always support some form of self salvation. |
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| 6/14/14 9:44 AM |
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WCF is not the Bible wrote:
makes your statement an outright lie. Many good things in WCF, but saying all it doctrines from the Bible however is bogus. Violates the 9th commandment. Your worship of the WCF violates the 1st commandment. Your statement is an outright lie. Your version of baptism was invented by the Anabaptist heretics in the 16th century and does not come from anywhere in Scripture. The WCF is of course Calvinist and the alternative to Calvinism is the Roman Catholic, Arminian, free will save yourself ideology. Therefore non-Calvinists will not receive the truths of the WCF anymore than the truths of Scripture. The Calvinist does not worship the WCF he/she simply recognises that its teachings are in accordance with the Holy Scripture. Therefore it is very worrying when some around here cannot affirm that truth. WCF 2/1. There is but one only living and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions, immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute, working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory; most loving, gracious ...." |
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| 6/13/14 2:49 PM |
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"The Westminster Confession of Faith is a biblical confession, and its a confession of the biblical faith. Its doctrines are drawn from nowhere else but the Bible. It is usually spoken of as being a Calvinistic document, and for the last hundred years, this has been said scornfully. But we could just as easily say that the Westminster Confession of Faith was Augustinian. Now it is Calvinistic, lets not be ashamed of it; it is Augustinian; but we could equally say that it is Pauline. What did Augustine do, but take the doctrine taught by Paul, who had taken the doctrine taught by Christ, and Augustine systematised it. Then at the time of the Reformation, one of the greatest theological minds the world has seen took the doctrines of Augustine. Seeing that it was a biblical system, Calvin elaborated it more and made it clearer, and gave us theological works that are coming back into the hearts, as well as the minds of men today.So in a sense we have to say that its not just a Calvinistic document, and not just an Augustinian document, but that it is a biblical document. It is because these men were biblical that we can call it Calvinistic or Augustinian etc, but it goes right back to the teaching of the Old and New Testaments." (Prof D MacMillan) |
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