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Sanctification, Heidelberg, and the "third use of the law"

By SharperIron on Sun, 07/20/14
Christian Living
Sanctification
Creeds and Confessions
Heidelberg Catechism

“The HC gives serious and careful attention to the requirements of God’s law as a guide for the Christian life.” Ref21

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Mark_Smith

NewFrom the FBFI thread

Sun, 07/20/14

it is mentioned that FBFI is anti-calvinist. One of the things that personally bugs me about Reformed churches is all of this effort for catechisms or confessions. I am interested in parsing verbs in the Bible, not from confessions.

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Jim

NewThe creeds are valuable because ...

Sun, 07/20/14

They explain things. They may not always be right, but they attempt to explain the particular position of a given group.

This AM our pastor mentioned both the Nicene Creed and the Council of Chalcedon. For Baptists most value the London and the NH confession

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josh p

NewIn the words of Spurgeon,

Mon, 07/21/14

In the words of Spurgeon, “Everyone has a creed.” They are trying to protect a heritage of sound doctrine and they feel they do it best through confessions. Jehovah’s Witnesses are interested in Greek too. So are Mormons, Catholics, etc. at most churches these people would be excluded from membership since their beliefs do not square with a doctrinal statement. That is just one function of “creeds” and confessions.

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