What is a Presbyterian???

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1Lord1Faith1Baptism1God

1Lord1Faith1Baptism1God

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I often hear people characterizing Presbyterianism in a wrong way, so I thought I'd post a video to help people understand what it is and what Presbyterians believe. I hope this video brings a little clarity. :) [video=youtube;D7ryRwRZ8zQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ryRwRZ8zQ[/video]

See also The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presby...l_differences_between_PCA_and_the_PC.28USA.29
 
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phil36

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I'm Presbyterian...
 
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NayborBear said:
...dunno if I've even been to one of these. T'was reading about adoption, from that Westminster thingy, about "adoption"....Sez "spirit" of adoption......hmmmmm
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​CHAPTER 12
Of Adoption

1. All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God, have his name put upon them, receive the Spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry, Abba, Father, are pitied, protected, provided for, and chastened by him, as by a father: yet never cast off, but sealed to the day of redemption; and inherit the promises, as heirs of everlasting salvation.


Chapter 18 ii Clarifies a bit more:

[h=3]CHAPTER 18
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation[/h]
2. This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion grounded upon a fallible hope; but an infallible assurance of faith founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation, the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made, the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God, which Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption.



Romans 8:15

The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."
 
1Lord1Faith1Baptism1God

1Lord1Faith1Baptism1God

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Hey now. PCA are the good guys. PC-USA are the humanists.
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Yeah I know. I was referring to crossnote's comment about the Presbyterian church apostatizing. I was trying to tell him that the PCUSA is a liberal progressive break-off of the Presbyterian Church, and PCA are conservative and orthodox.
 
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I am very confused...there are thousands of divisions in christianity...it seems that each division/sect/denomination/church says they understand God better than the other thousands, and thus, they divide. So, the quote above from Paul seems to imply "oneness". How can one sincerely claim "oneness" when there are thousands of divisions?
 
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There are many parts to the Body of Christ.....they have different functions...not all is a hand or an eye or a foot....oneness in heart, Spirit and of faith in Christ as their Head.
 
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Well, not all PCA seem to exclusionary. Maybe just some. We share the use of our building with a local PCA group who had no place to worship.

We are homosexual friendly. And they know this. Yet they seem to have no problem with that. So, it is probably wrong to try to "die-stamp" all people of any particular division of any religion as being a certain way.
 
phil36

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crossnote said:
No. Even most of the conservative ones have drifted from teaching their congregants their own confessions.
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Unfortunately this seems to be a saddening trend all over.
 
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