Tuesday, April 17, 2012

FW: How Shall so Anomalous a Situation Be Brought to an End?

 

Consider…

 

Feed: Stand Firm
Posted on: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:00 AM
Author: Scott Diekmann
Subject: How Shall so Anomalous a Situation Be Brought to an End?

 

Quoting from J. Gresham Machen's book Christianity and Liberalism, p. 151:

But how shall so anomalous a situation be brought to an end? The best way would undoubtedly be the voluntary withdrawal of the liberal ministers from those confessional churches whose confessions they do not, in the plain historical sense, accept. And we have not altogether abandoned hope of such a solution. Our differences with the liberal party in the Church are indeed profound, but with regard to the obligation of simple honesty of speech, some agreement might surely be attained. Certainly the withdrawal of liberal ministers from the creedal churches would be enormously in the interests of harmony and co-operation. Nothing engenders strife so much as a forced unity, within the same organization, of those who disagree fundamentally in aim.


photo credit: J.Salmoral


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