Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 139

Q. 139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment? I just wanted to focus on this portion of their answer: “lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays;” How many synagogues of Satan holding to the Westminster Standards would agree with question #139 that “lascivious stage plays” are forbidden by the seventh commandment? Very, [...]

Pernicious proceedings at Westminster Abbey

One (of many) book I read in preparation to writing the article exposing the heresies of the Westminster Confession of Faith was Robert Letham’s “The Westminster Assembly: Reading Its Theology In Historical Context.” It was quite informative, especially with all the research that is being done by Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn on the Assembly minutes. [...]

The Wicked Westminster Confession

The Wicked Westminster Confession By Chris Duncan (From Outside the Camp Vol. 14, No. 1) The Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) is lauded by its adherents as the greatest, clearest, and most orthodox confession of biblical Christianity ever produced. It is purported to be a simple exhibition of the truth, in which much of its [...]

WCF: Of the Church (XXV.5)

“The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated, as to become no Churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a Church on earth to worship God according to His will” (XXV. 5). Those professing “churches” who hold to the heretical contents [...]

WCF: Of the Church (XXV.4)

“This catholic Church has been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular Churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the Gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them” (XXV. 4). The Westminster Confession of Faith is one of [...]

WCF: Of Marriage and Divorce (XXIV.5)

“In the case of adultery after marriage, it is lawful for the innocent party to sue out a divorce and, after the divorce, to marry another, as if the offending party were dead” (XXIV. 5). It was a fatal calculation of Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:19, and Romans 7:2-3 that brought them to the conclusion that [...]

WCF: Of Marriage and Divorce (XXIV.3)

“It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry…” ( XXIV. 3). Since the WCF has stated elsewhere (XVI.7) that “works done by unregenerate men” are “sinful, and cannot please God” then the question is what exactly do they mean when they say that it is “lawful for all sorts of people to marry”? [...]

WCF: Of the Law of God (XIX. 1)

“God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which He bound him and all his posterity, to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience, promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it” (XIX. 1). We have seen [...]

WCF: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation (XVIII.4)

“True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as, by negligence in preserving of it, by falling into some special sin which wounds the conscience and grieves the Spirit; by some sudden or vehement temptation, by God’s withdrawing the light of His countenance, and suffering even such as [...]

WCF: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation (XVIII.3)

“This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties, before he be partaker of it: yet, being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation in the [...]