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From: AC <mightymartianca@yahoo.ca>
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Subject: Re: I don't understand Creationists (was: Re: Hopelessness in Evolution)
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:20:48 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:01:42 +0000 (UTC),
Uncle Davey <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>
> "AC" <mightymartianca@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
> news:slrnc0tdmr.1cs.mightymartianca@namibia.tandem...
>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:25:36 +0000 (UTC),
>> Emmit Svenson <emmitsvenson@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> news:<buckuo$sb4$0@pita.alt.net>...
>> >> "catshark" <catshark@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:u3ej001aek5gq6pve1ddd7ce1pcmb56ng1@4ax.com...
>> >> > ...why should I credit *your* interpretation of Presbyterianism over
>> >> > a trained and experienced minister of the faith?
>> >>
>> >> Because what I believe is in line with the original founding documents,
> such
>> >> as the Westminster Confession.
>> >>
>> >> These things are not done in a corner, anyone can get hold of the
>> >> Westminster Confession and check off themselves whether they believe or
> not.
>> >>
>> >> Uncle Davey
>> >
>> > The Westminster Confession does not, of course, insist on a literal
>> > reading of the Bible. Which is a good thing, because even if Christ
>> > said "I am the way and the door," he wasn't hinged and made out of
>> > wood.
>> >
>> > As recently as 2002, the General Assembly of the 2.5 million member US
>> > Presbyterian Church passed a resolution that there is NO contradiction
>> > between evolutionary theory and Scripture. Feel free to disagree with
>> > their decision, but we're not going to take you as the foremost expert
>> > on Calvin.
>>
>> Obviously they are not real Presbyterians. If they don't have the Uncle
>> Davey stamp of approval, they might as well be cannibalistic Satanists for
>> all the good it will do them.
>
> They may well be Christians, and it is more important to be that that a real
> Presbyterian.
>
> You can be a doctrinally sound Presbyterian, and not actually have Christ in
> your heart, whereas it's possible to be a Roman Catholic, very confused on
> doctrine and yet right in his heart.
My wife will be thrilled to find out her Catholicism is no obstacle to
having Christ in her heart.
>
> It seems to me from the Bible that the first would be thrown in the fiery
> pit with the cannibalistic Satanists, and the second would sit at the feet
> of the Lamb in eternity.
>
> I'm able to discern a person whose doctrine agrees with the original
> Presbyterian doctrines and who hasn't lavinated in the great doctrinal
> mudslide with the mulchy masses of wannabe modern reformed churchgoers, but
> only God can tell whether someone has Christ in their heart, and that's the
> critical thing.
That's awfully big of you, Uncle Davey.
--
Aaron Clausen
tao_of_cow/\alberni.net (replace /\ with @)
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