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To: RecoveringPaulisto
The real Presbyterian Churches in North America: The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC) The Canadian Reformed Churches (CanRC) The Reformed Church of Quebec (ERQ) The Free Reformed Churches of North America (FRCNA) The Heritage Reformed Congregations (HRC) The Korean American Presbyterian Church (KAPC) The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) The Presbyterian Reformed Church (PresRC) The Reformed Church in the United States (RCUS) The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) The United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA)

Wow! That's a lot of churches!

And all in one little country!

Are they all led by the Holy Spirit?

What, is the Holy Spirit that confused?

83 posted on 07/11/2011 5:32:51 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows.)
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To: Jim Noble

Wow. They all agree on most everything. They even have agreements where membership and elders can transfer freely between them. Heck, they are all members of an umbrella organization that could be called a “denomination.” They must be really confused. Not.


84 posted on 07/11/2011 5:37:07 PM PDT by RecoveringPaulisto
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To: Jim Noble
What, is the Holy Spirit that confused?

It's interesting that some amongst us think that God is unable to handle His Creation. :) Or on the other hand, that God is a celestial computer programmer that has predetermined everything.

I think that I'll stick with the Church of Christ, with belief handed down from Jesus, through the Apostles, to us.

86 posted on 07/11/2011 6:00:50 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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To: Jim Noble; MarkBsnr
Jim -- it gets better

The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) split from the RCA (Reformed Church in America) in 1857. From the CRC there were splits like the PRC (Protestant Reformed Church) in 1924, the OCRC (OrthodoxChristian Reformed Churches) and the URCNA (United Reformed Churchs in North America). The CRC ended relationships with the PCA and OPC when the CRC had WPs. The PRC also had a split in 53 when half left to form the OPRCA (Orthodox Protestants Reformed Churches in America) not to be confused with the OCRCNA. The OCRCNA joined with the United Reformed Churches in North America (the URCNA) which had left the CRCNA in 1996

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. The other EPC split from the BPC, which had split from the OPC (itself a split from from the original PCUSA - which should not be confused with the current PC(USA), a different body). That EPC eventually merged with the PCA.

89 posted on 07/11/2011 11:13:28 PM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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