**non-Chriistian revisionists **
Two questions:
How could they be non-Christian and belong to the Presbyterian Church?
What were they revising as the name revisionists indicates?
PS. Everyone can come home to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church — where the first presbyters (priests) helped out the bishops who were being ordained in the Early Catholic Church. (Really I’m serious.) Many Episcopalians have become Catholics; it’s not that big of a leap.
“How could they be non-Christian and belong to the Presbyterian Church?”
An older minister once explained to me how the mainline Protestant denominations were infected with non-Christian clergy. During the Vietnam War, a lot of young men seeking to dodge the draft realized you could become exempt by going to seminary. So they all applied. Once they got there they realized the churches were the perfect vehicle for pushing a left-wing agenda. They basically have to support you and you can advance whatever you want. So you now have all these leeches living off the churches, along with their disciples they have brought into their folds. In recent years their ranks have swelled with embittered women seeking second careers and homosexual activists seeking to promote the homosexual lifestyle.
“What were they revising as the name revisionists indicates?”
What they are revising are traditional Christian beliefs. In the Episcopal Church, where they have the greatest stranglehold, they have disposed of the Bible, belief in Jesus as the way to salvation, the requirement to be a Christian to take communion, and any restrictions on who can serve as a priest. They have replaced the Gospel with promoting homosexuality, and preaching that the way to salvation is in implementing the United Nations’ Millenium Development Goals. Some of their priests and priestesses advocate pagan worship of goddesses such as Sophia and Gaia, druidism,and Wiccan practices such as worship of the Labyrinth. Recently one declared she is a Muslim (she was the director of “Christian Formation” of the cathedral of the diocese). Their Presiding Bishopess is a universalist who invokes public prayers to “Mother Jesus.” Another bishopess is a former Mormon who has never received Christian baptism.
The fight has been going on since the 1930s. They've had several generations to infiltrate and move up.
What were they revising as the name revisionists indicates?
In 1967, they ditched all pretense of subscribing to the Westminster Standards, and adopted a liberal new confession of faith. (They kept the Westminster Confession along with a number of other, sometimes conflicting creeds, in an historical collection). So the short answer is that the revisionists revised the creedal standards.
Salvation — you are so right. It is just not that big of a leap. We converted/ crossed the Tiber several years ago. What looked like a jump across the Straits of Magellan turned out to be wading across a shallow stream.
And coming home.