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'God the Father' Banished by Mainline Ddenomination
WorldNetDaily ^ | July 5, 2011 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 07/05/2011 7:11:25 PM PDT by WXRGina

The United Church of Christ, the denomination whose Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright blasted the United States and white people for years from the pulpit while Barack Obama sat in his pews, has decided to banish God "the Father" from its organizational documents.

A report from Eric Anderson on the denomination's website confirmed that delegates to the UCC's "General Synod 28" agreed late Monday to a series of proposed amendments to the constitution and bylaws. The vote was 613 in favor of the changes, 171 against and 10 abstaining.

The changes include a pointed deletion of a reference to God "as heavenly Father," which has been part of Christendom's description of the Trinity for millennia – the three persons of God being the heavenly Father, Christ the Son and Savior, and the Holy Ghost, the counselor and comforter.

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To: lightman
In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Savior

Surely you jest...."the man of Nazareth" means that Jesus is God?

Why did you pick one phrase out of the three that were stated??? Let me guess; you are a Catholic...

61 posted on 07/06/2011 11:46:21 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool
Why did you pick one phrase out of the three that were stated???

And how do the other two phrases make explicit the Divine Sonship of Jesus? Capitalization does not count....creeds are meant to be spoken and heard.

62 posted on 07/07/2011 4:32:38 AM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: lightman
"you have come to us..." says nothing of how>

In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Savior, you have come to us and shared our common lot, conquering sin and death and reconciling the world to yourself.

How??? In Jesus Christ is how God came to us...Just as the scriptures states and just as this statement says...

And how do the other two phrases make explicit the Divine Sonship of Jesus? Capitalization does not count....creeds are meant to be spoken and heard.

How??? Because it shows that God was manifest in the flesh, and that flesh was our Divine Savior...

Creed??? Some folks wouldn't know what to believe were it not for someone shoving a creed in their faces...I know what I believe from reading the scriptures...And the Catholic spoken of in your creed does not exist in the scriptures...

You can have your creed...I'll stick with God's spoken/written words, the scripture...

63 posted on 07/07/2011 4:51:48 AM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: dangus; Alex Murphy

This has nothing to do with Calvinism, but as we’ve seen, any spitball will do when papists’ Scriptural artillery runs empty.


64 posted on 07/07/2011 8:22:56 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: dangus; Alex Murphy
Roman Catholics continue to show ignorance of Calvinism and Scripture...

From the...

Westminster Confession of Faith,
Chapter II
Of God, and of the Holy Trinity

III. In the unity of the Godhead there be three Persons of one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.[38] The Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; [39] the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son. [40]

I believe even the Romanists agree with this understanding, but who knows for sure?

65 posted on 07/07/2011 8:29:41 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

I’m sure you accept, then, when any idiot Catholic heretic does something stupid that contradicts the infallible doctrine of the Catholic church that he is not representing Catholicism? Any idiot can know that he is not, since the Catholic Church actually declares definitively its interpretation of scripture.

The United Church of Christ is the second largest American denomination in the Calvinist branch of “Reformed” Christianity, and they just banished the phrase, “God the Father.” If they can “interpret” away the clear meaning of scripture, you expect that they’ll treat the Westminster Confession of Faith better? Sure you aren’t suggesting that Calvinists place the Westminster Confession above the bible, so that they could toss out the bible, but somehow must retain the Westminster Confession?


66 posted on 07/07/2011 8:36:11 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

The Westminster Confession of Faith is predicated on the Bible, unlike the RCC catechism which just makes things up.

The UCC may still call itself reformed, but it’s not by any stretch of the imagination.

And I don’t care what “any idiot Catholic heretic” says about the “doctrine of the (Roman) Catholic church” because since so much of it is not soundly based on God’s word, most of it is junk anyway.


67 posted on 07/07/2011 8:44:13 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: dangus; Dr. Eckleburg
I’m sure you accept, then, when any idiot Catholic heretic does something stupid that contradicts the infallible doctrine of the Catholic church that he is not representing Catholicism?

The United Church of Christ is the second largest American denomination in the Calvinist branch of “Reformed” Christianity....

I had to stop reading right there - I was laughing too hard.

"For as soon as God's Word becomes known through you, the devil will afflict you will make a real doctor of you, and will teach you by his temptations to seek and to love God's Word. For I myself....owe my papists many thanks for so beating, pressing, and frightening me through the devil's raging that they have turned me into a fairly good theologian, driving me to a goal I should never have reached."
-- What Luther Says: An Anthology, Vol. 3, p. 1360.

68 posted on 07/07/2011 10:05:25 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed: he's hated on seven continents)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
"And I don’t care what “any idiot Catholic heretic”..."

Really, that is a very unkind way to refer to the former Catholic Freepers you pal around with on thee threads (but we all know exactly who you are referring to).

69 posted on 07/07/2011 1:30:49 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; dangus
As opposed to your OPC cult which says
Do you ever wonder if animals have an afterlife? Have you ever had a beloved pet die? Will you see your pet in heaven?

People generally assume not. The Bible certainly doesn't teach it. But the Bible doesn't deny it either. And the Bible does teach some other things that might bear on the question.

But your pets can only be saved if they are of the elected selected Reformed elite, apparently. So, we have the Reformed God bringing the pets of the Reformed directly to Heaven, and along with their masters, living forever in the glory of the Reformed God, whilst the bulk of humanity and all the rest of Creation burns forever in hellfire for the Reformed God's pleasure. That is the liberty of the Reformation - only if you are one of the liberated ones, whether you be human, animal, vegetable or Democrat. The second Adam - Christ - came not for the majority of humanity, but for the pets of the Reformed, doncha know?
70 posted on 07/07/2011 10:51:32 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; dangus
The OPC is a rabidly anti-Semitic group that has lately been trying to promote it's anti-Israeli message on FR with posts like:
  1. Easter greetings from Israel - a hoax video aiming to smear Jews and that is as disgusting as the Protocols of the Elders
  2. Jerusalem, the have-not whore
  3. Israel -- where there is a comparison of Biblical Israel to Modern Israel -- and you can guess it's not a pleasant one
  4. All Israel will be Saved, but not all Israel
  5. Jerusalem, Mother of all Harlots
  6. The restoration and conversion of Israel -- this soon descends into a fre for all anti-semitic fest

What is disgusting is that this group (the OPC/PCA) pretends to be Christian while spouting it's hatred for Jews and Christians alike

71 posted on 07/07/2011 10:52:08 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; dangus
Eckelsberg,

It’s pretty clear
to anyone reading this thread
that when Christians
criticizes your sect,
those criticisms decry
your sect’s perversions and
your sect’s practices
and beliefs
that are anti-Scriptural,

whereas the “strong language”
your sect seem to employ is simply name-calling.

There’s never ever ever ever ever a core to your sect's argument.

No discussion of
your sect’s faith,
your sect’s practices,
your sect’s beliefs,
your sect’s perspectives,
your sect’s ideology,
your sect’s theology,
etc.

There’s hardly even a mention of your sect.
Are the cultists afraid of your sect’s reputation?
Your sect’s history?
Your sect’s incoherence?
Most people are delighted
to share with others
the community that helps
them to experience and know true faith in God.

But with your sect, all we get is blather.

72 posted on 07/07/2011 10:54:38 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; dangus

There is an inherent absurdity with Dr Eck’s sect’s POV: God’s not satisfied with damning a person before the beginning of creation, but after the person is dead, he’d have to resurrect him and tell him, “I’m going to punish you in hell forever because you perfectly—though you had no choice—followed the plan I set out for you since before the beginning of the world, all for my good pleasure and greater glory.” That’s just perverse piling on. And again we have to ask, “Glory before whom?” If all is created by God and determined by God, then there is no other “who” before whom glory, to whatever degree, is to be manifest and no context within which glory would even have any meaning. The whole thing is nothing more than an audience of one, the sound of that one’s hands clapping. Even Zen makes more sense than that.


73 posted on 07/07/2011 10:55:38 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; dangus
No wonder that the Former Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) ruling elder Paul M. Elliott says that The OPC long ago ceased to proclaim the one true Gospel to the exclusion of all false gospels (115). and The Orthodox Presbyterian Church has abandoned the marks of a true church of Jesus Christ (118) and he keeps urging every OPCer to leave that cult. So the OPC which spawned the BPC and the EPC sub-cults (who left the OPC over disputes about whether the Apostle Paul wrote in perfect or imperfect greek and on eggs on Sunday respectively), will soon have another split in which the majority will leave the OPCult --> hopefully they will come to Christianity instead of to another sub-OPC cult

Now the EPC has pastoresses and soon the OPC will follow

74 posted on 07/07/2011 10:56:47 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; dangus
This Trinity Foundation website says "Last year The Trinity Foundation published Paul Elliott’s book, Christianity and Neo-Liberalism: The Spiritual Crisis in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Beyond. That book examines in detail the false doctrine of salvation now being taught in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

The above website says
Thus, the Report continues the conspiracy of silence that has prevailed in the OPC for three decades. It leaves the erroneous impression that the serious doctrinal problems are outside the denomination, not within it. The Report gives false comfort to those who think the OPC is still a bastion of Biblical orthodoxy. On the contrary, the Report, and the 2006 General Assembly’s commendation of it, both maintain the OPC as a safe haven for those who teach error

.....

Men within the OPC, including at least one member of the Committee itself, teach heresy regarding the Gospel and many other fundamentals of the faith.
you can read the details at the link on page 109 why the Former Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) ruling elder Paul M. Elliott says that

Why does a former ruling elder of the OPC say that? Well, he gives his reasons in his book about the heresy that he believes the OPC is following and he is urging every OPCer to leave. You can read it too if you want -- and if you disagree with him, he's given his posting and email address in the book. accordingly.

The author’s thesis is that the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) is today exactly where the PCUSA was back then.

75 posted on 07/07/2011 10:57:16 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Iscool; lightman
iscool: In Jesus Christ is how God came to us

lightman -- iscool's cult believes in Modalism and that God's spirit possessed a man called Jesus and then left him on the cross.

76 posted on 07/08/2011 1:21:38 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Iscool
Iscool: "In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Savior, you have come to us and shared our common lot, conquering sin and death and reconciling the world to yourself." --- They are saying that Jesus is God here

hardly -- they say nothing of His Divinity.

See, iscool -- this is the ultimate end of such modalistic philosophy, to deny Christ's and the Holy SPirit's divinity

your cult should repent of it's non-Christian beliefs and return to Christ. Well, since your cult's membership never varied beyond one, it shouldn't be too difficult.

77 posted on 07/08/2011 1:23:18 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Iscool; lightman
iscool to lightman: Let me guess; you are a Catholic...

We would warmly welcome you, lightman!

78 posted on 07/08/2011 1:27:44 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Cronos
See, iscool -- this is the ultimate end of such modalistic philosophy, to deny Christ's and the Holy SPirit's divinity

In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Savior, you have come to us

If you can't see divinity in that statement, your blind in one eye and can't see out of the other...

79 posted on 07/08/2011 3:07:26 AM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool
"In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Savior, you have come to us"

Like your cult, this cult also seems to believe that Jesus was just a man, not God, that Jesus was a crucified man sent as a Savior -- not God according to this cult and yours

80 posted on 07/08/2011 3:19:22 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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