Steve Curtis
Puritan Board Senior
The Westminster standards are, to be sure, not divine oracles, but they are very difficult to improve upon.
I pray that our beloved moderators will bear with me in expressing why I find this board so unedifying at times.
The frustration is equally shared. If discussion could move away from the somewhat modernist idea that the Standards need "improving" simply by virtue of the fact that we chronologically succeed those who produced them (when the humble reality is that we are far from the godly learning of the past masters), I believe the frustration will be removed and more edifying dialogue will characterise this board.
As Pastor King's comment was originally interjected in a conversation in which he expressed impatience with me, perhaps I should clarify once again that I am in no way advocating the "chronological snobbery" to which C. S. Lewis referred (and to which you alluded) and rather thought that I was arguing for the position of the masters and not against it. The only charge that could rightly be levelled against me in this regard is that I was insisting upon a full and accurate representation of the Confession's statements regarding this topic.