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Why do you confess the confession you confess? :eek: :p I really don't know of anyone who accepts a confession as a whole [I could be wrong], so, there must be a reason why you choose to select the confession you did to represent your beliefs...right? :o
Peace,
jm
Brandan Kraft
10-23-2006, 01:30 PM
I use it simply to convey to folks unfamiliar with me briefly what I believe. It is nothing more than a means of identification for me.
katoikei
10-23-2006, 04:45 PM
I use it simply to convey to folks unfamiliar with me briefly what I believe. It is nothing more than a means of identification for me.
I guess that will be until your book is finished. How are you doing ?
wildboar
10-23-2006, 04:52 PM
The churches of Dutch Reformed background are strict subscriptionists and so at least theoretically every minister and elder should subscribe to every article found in the Three Forms of Unity. I have not found anything in these documents that I disagree with. I would take exception to certain statements in the Westminster Standards.
lionovjudah
10-23-2006, 08:04 PM
The churches of Dutch Reformed background are strict subscriptionists and so at least theoretically every minister and elder should subscribe to every article found in the Three Forms of Unity. I have not found anything in these documents that I disagree with. I would take exception to certain statements in the Westminster Standards.
Charles:
I am confused by this one:
7. Q. From where, then, did man's depraved nature come?
A. From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise,1 for there our nature became so corrupt2 that we are all conceived and born in sin.3 1 Gen 3. (http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?Gen+3) 2 Rom 5:12, 18, 19. (http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?Rom+5:12,+18,+19) 3 Ps 51:5. (http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?Ps+51:5)
Why is EVE mentioned when her sin is never spoken of resulting in our inherited nature? Adam is only mentioned. Our fall is in Adam not eve.
katoikei
10-28-2006, 07:11 AM
Why do you confess the confession you confess? :eek: :p I really don't know of anyone who accepts a confession as a whole [I could be wrong], so, there must be a reason why you choose to select the confession you did to represent your beliefs...right? :o
Peace,
jm
That's actually very funny. I mean the first part of your question...
Why do you confess the confession you confess ?
I have been going through Romans and thought this might not be a bad answer to that quesiton.
Romans 10:8
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
...a reason why you choose to select the confession you did to represent your beliefs...?
Once again, this is exploring the idea of the 'reason'.
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:9
This certainly would have been very different before Christ. I love the following passages of Scripture.
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Colossians 3:7
I walked according to the ideas of Herman Hesse, Carl Gustav Jung and some crazy follower of the Apostle Paul who went off into heresy, that was until the light of salvation shone through into my dark soul. It has always been the Scriptures that are my confession. Confessionals that match that are interesting.
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