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The chart is actually backward, one reason that it is confusing. Most timeline charts flow from left to right.

But the CRC (Christian Reformed Church) isn't on the chart. The chart deals primarily with those who came out of the Church of Scotland. It includes some who have strayed pretty far from the reformed faith (Cumberland Presbyterians, near the bottom) as well as those who have remained relatively true (ARP, or Associate Reformed, for example.) In fact, if you moved the PCA and the RPCUS above the PCSUA, and flipped them, you probably would have a pretty good picture of more pure to less pure from top to bottom.

I just looked again - the list doesn't even show the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. It would fall between the PCA and the PCUSA on orthodoxy.

Getting back to the CRC, United Reformed, Reformed Church US, etc; you are talking about churches that flowed from the Dutch Reformed tradition, which differs from the Scottish tradition, and has its own set of confessions = and its own family tree.

which differs from the Scottish tradition, and has its own set of confessions = and its own family tree.

Surely their "family tree" isn't the same kind of quagmire as Presbyterianism's - which looks like a clump of sagebrush or a city map of downtown Houston.

The chart is actually backward, one reason that it is confusing. Most timeline charts flow from left to right.

You could flip this chart horizontally and I don't believe it would eliminate much, if any, of the confusion.