- Please pray for me as I preach at Rose Point Reformed Presbyterian Church this coming Lord's Day
- Pray that the semester gets off to a good start, I have 19 credits, plus my job.
- Pray that my Dutch Reformed Ecclesiology professor sees the superiority of the Westminster over the Three Forms of Unity.
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Ah, but the three forms are just that - three distinct forms that are part of one entity. Thus, they're Trinitarian, whereas the Westminster is obviously Unitarian. But that's just my Dutch Reformed bias showing...
Good luck with your semester, man. That's quite the load.
This third prayer request with some tongue in cheek. Take it as so please.
Oh, of course. My response was equally tongue-in-cheek, sorry if it came off as otherwise.
Oh I know Mark. It did not come off wrongly.
Nate,
I believe we met this summer at Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church in Meadville Pa, I was the intern there this past summer. Am i correct? You were with you wife and cousin who is a nurse in the Grand Rapids area?
I do not know that much about the three forms of unity. But i do appreciate the dear ol Heidelberg a great deal. I find the stress on personal piety to be a comfort and a useful guide. I do not necessarily see it above or below the Westminster, i just see the stress in a different direction of the Christian life. Together they complement each other very well.
in the end all that matters is that unitarians are cool
I hate it when folks refer to those fellas as the 'Westminster Divines.' Give me a break, they're sinful men. Very blessed men, but sinful nonetheless.
Definition of Divine(s):
"a clergyman or other person in religious orders"
• adjective (diviner, divinest) 1 of, from, or like God or a god. 2 informal excellent.
• noun: dated a cleric or theologian. (OED)
I believe that the use of Divines is in reference to the noun, not the adjective, therefore making it a totally appropriate term to use. Nobody sees them as sinless men.
Oops, that was me.
Real quick, since I am closed-
-Mark, of course I understood that you were joking.
-Droll, NO they were not unitarians and the way that the Westminster is superior is that it is a fuller or more mature statement of the Reformed faith. I would be happy to see people ACTUALLY believe either the 3 forms or the Westminster! And free time leads to too much leisure and intellectual laziness.
-Notliberal, Lydia is right. It is the Old school word for theologians or ministers. The usage is out of date, but still holds for Westminster. It is WAY better than the Dutch Fathers who were called Dominae which translates as LORD!
-Lydia, good use of the OED. Every use makes it worth owning.
Long and short- pray for me this weekend as I bring the word PA brothers and sisters!
Okay, Droll, I recant!
The way I heard the Westminster described before is as "the over ripened fruit of the reformation". But, I am CRC, so that's probably about what you expect from us. ;-)
Droll, the friend that made that comment is of the opinion that the Westminster goes to far in some areas, and legislates things that should be left to Christian liberty. I believe that's what he was getting at.
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Thanks,
David
No Droll, it was mostly a passing comment that he made, and not an in depth discussion of the matter.
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