[wideawake]

The EPC are a body of Presbyterians who held back from the merger that created the PCUSA because they objected to the liberalism of the PCUSA.

They upheld the full Westminster Confession as their standard of faith.

Put simply, they were and considered themselves to be, a conservative Presbyterian alternative to the PC(USA). They are unrelated to the PCA.

Basically, the Presbyterians in the US were split between the PCUS (mostly Southerners) and the UPCUSA (mostly Northerners). The conservatives split from the PCUS in 1974 forming the PCA. Then, in 1981, when the merger between the PCUS and the UPCUSA was in motion, the conservatives split from the UPCUSA and formed the EPC.

[Cronos]

Let's hope they don't get pushed into voting for gay marriage sometime down in the future. Perhaps I'm wrong, but history seems to show that any denomination that first allows a pastoress, sooner or later allows gay married lesbian pastoresses. Am I just making up a non-existent relationship? Leave aside theology, church governance, but is this inevitable that if you allow female priests/pastors, sooner or later gays are allowed? I see it even among the Jewish groups

But I wonder if that's flawed logic -- what do you guys think, is it possible to stop at just pastoresses/priestesses? Leave aside theology and church governance.

[Cronos]

Basically, the Presbyterians in the US were split between the PCUS (mostly Southerners) and the UPCUSA (mostly Northerners). The conservatives split from the PCUS in 1974 forming the PCA. Then, in 1981, when the merger between the PCUS and the UPCUSA was in motion, the conservatives split from the UPCUSA and formed the EPC.

And the original PCUSA split into the CPC, PCUS and OPC. The OPC broke into the BPC and I thought the EPC, while the CPC got split into the CPC and the CPCA and the UCPA and some from the CPC rejoined the original PCUSA before it split.