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Confessions, Doctrine, Error
Confession of Faith
Public confession is and should remain the important matter. Yet these stipulations, this contractual relationship may not be ignored. It must be remembered that the affirmative answer given at the time of confession is the same as that which binds the confessor to these stipulations of the church.
Confessions certainly can be altered and often are altered, either because the Church develops and grows in the knowledge of the truth, or because the faith of the Church must be defended against mew errors that arise. The alteration must be based on the Word of God. If it is not, it is a corruptio
Drop the confessions, and the churches will become spiritually demoralized, impoverished and degenerate to a club or a lodge. For when the churches lose the expressions of their distinctiveness, they soon lose the cause and reason for their separate existence and usefulness in the world. Further obj
The Place of the Confession in the Local Church an open confession so as to put them in the right path as well as to refute the wrong ful rumours that were being spread against Him. In fact, as the Church develops and grows in this world, she is going to hear all kinds of things said about God and H
The Confessions and the Church Order of the Protestant Reformed Churches. Grandville, MI: The Protestant Reformed Churches in America, 2005. 266. The Form for the Public Confession of Faith.
This amalgamation of churches usually destroys the confessions of either one or both; at the most, confessions become a common thing. If the confessions are not destroyed, they are abbreviated under the name of revision. Some may even keep the confession, but by wisdom of words and cunning distortio
In order to do this, it will be necessary that we take a little additional space to ask and answer, for ourselves, a few pertinent questions. We will number them for convenience and reference: (1) What are our Confessions? Briefly stated, a Confession may be defined as a comprehensive summary, form
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