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8/12/2019 1994 Issue 8 - Reformed Prose, Dead Men and Disobedience - Counsel of Chalcedon

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Proverbs

20:17

'lJisooeaience

mask itself

as oeing re(ative{y unimportant,

a rationa[izeapause,

going

unnoticecC,

promising no fasting iffect.

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waiver

in

tlie

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ana

we

are

victims

afreaay,

fiaving faen prey

to sin's

controc.

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every

man is temptei

when he is arawn away o

his

own rust, anaenticed.

'Then

when

rust

hath

con-

ceivei it Gnngeth forth

sin:

anasin, when

it is

finishei Gnngeth forth

aeath.

JJ

James

1:

14-15

Coneeneue. cont. from pg 18

that for some

in

the PCA, the issue

isnotwhat the Scripturessay, what

the Larger Catechism

says,

but that

this is simply a hindrance to

effective evangelism, and "our

times deIilllnd" (another dangerous

phrase from

the Consensus

Statement) that we not be so strict

in

our doctrine. Their ultimate

practice is governed, not by

Scripture,

not by

the Reformed

Faith, not by

concern

for or

confidence

in

doing God's work

God's way, not by confidence

in

the sovereignty of God who is

saving His elect through the

preaching of the tru th, but by the

anti Reformed "Arminian"

approach and atmosphere that says

we

must

use whatever means

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possible

to

get

as

many saved as we

can and we shouldn't let theology

get in our

way

I am concerned that some of

the views of

the

"Consensus

Statement" not only depart from

the Reformed tradition but that it

really

fails to

deal with the realroot

problem and to gloss over, to

insulate, latent, real, and practical

Arminianism in the

PCA

in the

name of "allowable diversity."

The PCA has an identity.

t

is

stated in her Constitution. The

crisis is not because she has no

identity but because she has

departed from her identity. This is

what is

so

egregious

to

those in the

PCA

who are still committed

to

her

original

position and

declarations.

Q