PCUSA GA Watching Now

[Romans922]

I'm watching the PCUSA GA online and it is kind of funny. It is totally opposite of all my thinking, that is it is outright liberalism running through most speakers. You can hear a few conservatives.

It is weird hearing women say they are pastors and how they speak. Weird.

They are debating the Heidelberg Catechism now.

 

[Hippo]

It is really an excellent web-cast, very professional.

I watched it for 30 mins and could not work out what they were arguing about or even who the good guys were.

 

[Zenas]

Aye, it's probably hard to point out which ones are the good guys, but it's safe to assume that the "good" party are certainly guys.

 

[holyfool33]

I'm watching the PCUSA GA online and it is kind of funny. It is totally opposite of all my thinking, that is it is outright liberalism running through most speakers. You can hear a few conservatives.

It is weird hearing women say they are pastors and how they speak. Weird.

They are debating the Heidelberg Catechism now.

Yeah, try listening to Joyce Meyer(s?) and Paula White.

I cuaght Paula Whtie flipping through the chanels and she was just droneing on and on about healing your past wounds through the "power" of The Holy Ghost what sadtimes we live in.

 

[Presbyterian Deacon]

Just curious...

What business does the PCUSA have debating the Heidelberg?

Did they get bored trashing and violating the Westminster standards and so they thought they'd move on to the other confessions, or what?

 

[Pilgrim]

What business does the PCUSA have debating the Heidelberg?

Did they get bored trashing and violating the Westminster standards and so they thought they'd move on to the other confessions, or what?

I believe it was in 1967 when they drafted a new confession and then no longer held to the Westminster Standards exclusively but instead to a book of confessions that include the TFU and others.

 

[Pilgrim]

Andrew (and other paedos who would like to answer) since this is posted in the cults and world religions forum, I wonder whether or not you recognize PCUSA baptism? I don't have in mind a "baptism" in the name of Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer but in the name of the Trinity.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

What business does the PCUSA have debating the Heidelberg?

Did they get bored trashing and violating the Westminster standards and so they thought they'd move on to the other confessions, or what?

I believe it was in 1967 when they drafted a new confession and then no longer held to the Westminster Standards exclusively but instead to a book of confessions that include the TFU and others.

Yes.

Confession of 1967 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Book of Confessions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Romans922]

Andrew (and other paedos who would like to answer) since this is posted in the cults and world religions forum, I wonder whether or not you recognize PCUSA baptism? I don't have in mind a "baptism" in the name of Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer but in the name of the Trinity.

I believe that if a baptism is not closely connected with the covenant promises than it is not a valid water baptism but just an outward act.

 

[caoclan]

Andrew (and other paedos who would like to answer) since this is posted in the cults and world religions forum, I wonder whether or not you recognize PCUSA baptism? I don't have in mind a "baptism" in the name of Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer but in the name of the Trinity.

I believe that if a baptism is not closely connected with the covenant promises than it is not a valid water baptism but just an outward act.

I struggled through this issue a few months back. As an infant, I was baptized in a Roman Catholic Church (twice, actually). I met with one of our ministers for lunch and we sifted through this issue. It boiled down to him telling me that the covenant sign belonged to God, not the RCC. He laid out the argument that even though it was done in a manner and in a "church" we wholeheartedly disagree with, God, in his faithfulness has kept me despite that fact.

Any thoughts, especially from the paedos on the board???

 

[Zenas]

You probably need to be re-Baptized at least 3 times.

2 to counter-act those Roman ones, and one more to one-up them.

(kidding)

 

[Galatians220]

What business does the PCUSA have debating the Heidelberg?

Did they get bored trashing and violating the Westminster standards and so they thought they'd move on to the other confessions, or what?

Margaret