A CRC Committee Proposal for Approval of Same-sex Marriage (1)
Kenneth Koole critiques a Christian Reformed Church committee proposal to approve same-sex marriage, arguing that the CRC has progressively abandoned biblical positions due to cultural pressure rather than scriptural conviction. The article traces a pattern of doctrinal compromise in the CRC from Report 44 (1972) through women's ordination to the present proposal, contending that each represents capitulation to secular social movements rather than faithful Reformed theology.
It comes as no surprise, of course. A Christian Reformed study committee (this one rising out of a classis) recommends approving same-sex marriage, which proposal its classis adopts with a view to bringing it as an overture to Synod. In light of all the other unbiblical positions the CRC has adopted over the last several decades, it was only a matter of time for one of its broader assemblies to decide that the time had come to revisit this issue too. What has governed the CRC assemblies over...
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