The trouble is that some of these NAPARC men don't actually seem to know what time it is. They're more concerned with mean tweets than the issues people actually face. The PCA overlooks things like w...
I haven't read the PCA's report on Christian Nationalism. I heard it was more balanced than that. Did it actually condemn all forms of nationalism?
I can't speak for what other denominations had for grounds for adopting the ARP's statement condemning racism, but I can give you the grounds used by the OPC, as I was a commissioner to this year's GA.
Here are the grounds:
"1. This teaching commits serious errors concerning the creation (Genesis 1:26–27; Acts 17:26) and redemption (1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 2:14–22) of humanity.
"2. The teaching violates the fifth commandment concerning the duties and sins of Equals (WLC 131 and 132).
"3. One of the most prominent public proponents of this teaching is a former minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, who was divested from office without censure prior to the publication of a book promoting these errors.
"4. There may be other members and officers of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church who hold to these errors who need to be called to repentance in a spirit of brotherly love.
"5. Permitting such errors to go uncondemned dishonors the Lord Jesus Christ as the head of the church and harms the reputation and witness of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church."
Additionally, the Presbytery of the Dakotas sent in a communication that opposed the statement as too vague, but also included this statement in support of condemning kinism and race realism:
“God has clearly made of one blood all nations of men (Acts 17:26). In Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek (Galatians 3:28). Gentile believers have been grafted into the same olive tree as the Jews (Romans 11:17), and God has made Jew and Gentile one in Christ (Ephesians 2:14). If the Apostle Paul could count his ethnic identity dung that he might gain Christ (Philippians 3:8), there is no basis for any of us to boast in ours.”
Likewise, the Presbytery of the Northwest sent in a communication in support of the statement and providing additional grounds for affirming it, noting that kinism and race realism “contradict the Larger Catechism’s teaching on the Fifth Commandment (WLC 131–132), which requires the preservation of the honor, dignity and equality of all humankind, body and soul, forbidding contempt and oppression which violates the moral law as confessed in our Standards.”
None of the above sounds like it is “grounded in liberal civil rights rather than the Bible.” Rather, it appears to be directly on the basis of what the Bible teaches, and what our secondary standards affirm as a summary of what the Bible teaches.
I can't speak for what other denominations had for grounds for adopting the ARP's statement condemning racism, but I can give you the grounds used by the OPC, as I was a commissioner to this year's GA.
Here are the grounds:
"1. This teaching commits serious errors concerning the creation (Genesis 1:26–27; Acts 17:26) and redemption (1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 2:14–22) of humanity.
"2. The teaching violates the fifth commandment concerning the duties and sins of Equals (WLC 131 and 132).
"3. One of the most prominent public proponents of this teaching is a former minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, who was divested from office without censure prior to the publication of a book promoting these errors.
"4. There may be other members and officers of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church who hold to these errors who need to be called to repentance in a spirit of brotherly love.
"5. Permitting such errors to go uncondemned dishonors the Lord Jesus Christ as the head of the church and harms the reputation and witness of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church."
Additionally, the Presbytery of the Dakotas sent in a communication that opposed the statement as too vague, but also included this statement in support of condemning kinism and race realism:
“God has clearly made of one blood all nations of men (Acts 17:26). In Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek (Galatians 3:28). Gentile believers have been grafted into the same olive tree as the Jews (Romans 11:17), and God has made Jew and Gentile one in Christ (Ephesians 2:14). If the Apostle Paul could count his ethnic identity dung that he might gain Christ (Philippians 3:8), there is no basis for any of us to boast in ours.”
Likewise, the Presbytery of the Northwest sent in a communication in support of the statement and providing additional grounds for affirming it, noting that kinism and race realism “contradict the Larger Catechism’s teaching on the Fifth Commandment (WLC 131–132), which requires the preservation of the honor, dignity and equality of all humankind, body and soul, forbidding contempt and oppression which violates the moral law as confessed in our Standards.”
None of the above sounds like it is “grounded in liberal civil rights rather than the Bible.” Rather, it appears to be directly on the basis of what the Bible teaches, and what our secondary standards affirm as a summary of what the Bible teaches.
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