Reflections on Assen and Lunteren / Ecumenical News Items / Southern Presbyterians

REFLECTIONS ON ASSEN AND LUNTEREN REFLECTIONS ON ASSEN AND LUNTEREN In 1926 the Synod of the Gereformeerde Kerken in the Netherlands deposed a certain Dr. Geelkerken from office for denying that the two trees which God placed in the Garden of Eden were actual trees and that Satan actually talked with Eve through the serpent which spoke. He denied the literal, historical interpretation of Genesis 3. Last year the Gereformeerde Kerken reconsidered this decision and decided they had been wrong...