A Legitimate Gravamen

Twice in recent months the claim has been made that Dr. Harry Boer's gravamen is not a legitimate gravamen. The argumentation is that the Boer gravamen is a "prove it" gravamen, that it is simply a request for the Christian Reformed Church to give Scriptural proof for the doctrine of sovereign reprobation, and that the Synod is not a kind of "question-box" and cannot be called upon to render proof for the various doctrines set forth in the creeds. The Rev. Nelson Kloosterman made this claim in...