I’ve been away from FR for a while. Would you mind telling me why I am seeing so many posts today with OPC in them when the subject of the thread has nothing to do with the OPC, of which I am a member?
It’s called “payback”. AKA..revenge.
I guess because you’re one of the many stone throwers.
It's a distraction technique. The *See, everybody else is doing it, too, so we're not so bad after all* mentality.
Confessing sin means an ability to acknowledge it and take responsibility for it something, it seems, that many Catholics are incapable of doing as opposed to denying it, which they have lots of practice with (with a few exceptions).
Probably largely a statistical fluke. But there are some very belligerent members of the OPC or PCA around here who take the attitude that sinfulness could never happen within their church.
One thing I’ve seen a bit of lately are stories about doctrinal dissension within the OPC, which raises an interesting point: The PCUSA, UCC, and most Western Prebyterian bodies have gone so bad doctrinally that they aren’t recognizable as Christian anymore. Seeing this, the OPC and PCA split. Then their members act around here as if Calvinism is somehow some safeguard against heresy, ignoring the PCUSA, UCC and other reformed churches which make up 90% of the reformed movement.
The question is: what did splitting accomplish? Have they won purity at the price of 90% of their co-congregants? Or have they merely withdrawn the most zealous Christians from denominations which needed their influence, only to see the very same issues arise within their newer, much smaller congregations a generation later?
This isn’t mere schadenfreude; even Catholics wrestle whether to flee a bad parish, or stay and fight. My personal take is that as long as the entity meets certain minimum standards, stay and fight if you can take it, spiritually. Among Catholics, that would be a valid eucharist.
Another question you might ask is why is Dr. Eck fixated on attacking other churches.
I’ve started a series on how sexual predators are a common, infiltrating enemy of Catholics, Baptists and Bible Churches. But apparently Dr. Eck has no interest beyond 20-year-old cases.