Who controls who?
The Reformed Churches got together and wrote the WCF, and the Reformed Baptists wrote the 1689 later (based on the WCF). These existing bodies invented these confessions and the confessions were a product of these churches.
Now, churches are often a product shaped by these confessions.
Which is subordinate to the other?
In 1788 the Presbyterians revised the WCF. Every so often people take exceptions to the WCF, desire to update it, or put it into "modern" language. Is this wrong or right, and why?
At the writing of the confessions those that were reformed wrote their beliefs down and this was put into the Confession. They defined what the reformed faith was. But now the confession defines what the reformed faith is. Thus, the reformed faith is fixed at a moment in time.
How does this aquare with the battle cry of "Always reforming"?
What happens if a large body of the Reformed desire to revise the Confesssion again? What if 99% of the people hold to the 1788 revised version of the WCF - would they be more reformed than those who hold to the original WCF, or would those that hold to the original be "more reformed"?
The Reformed Churches got together and wrote the WCF, and the Reformed Baptists wrote the 1689 later (based on the WCF). These existing bodies invented these confessions and the confessions were a product of these churches.
Now, churches are often a product shaped by these confessions.
Which is subordinate to the other?
In 1788 the Presbyterians revised the WCF. Every so often people take exceptions to the WCF, desire to update it, or put it into "modern" language. Is this wrong or right, and why?
At the writing of the confessions those that were reformed wrote their beliefs down and this was put into the Confession. They defined what the reformed faith was. But now the confession defines what the reformed faith is. Thus, the reformed faith is fixed at a moment in time.
How does this aquare with the battle cry of "Always reforming"?
What happens if a large body of the Reformed desire to revise the Confesssion again? What if 99% of the people hold to the 1788 revised version of the WCF - would they be more reformed than those who hold to the original WCF, or would those that hold to the original be "more reformed"?
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