Presbyterians have taken out their granite-colored whiteout and annulled the 6th Commandment right out of existence.
For those playing at home that’s the “Do Not Commit Adultery” Commandment…I mean suggestion.
You remember the Ten Commandments, right? They were written by God and given to Moses on “Mount Sinai.” But I guess God made a boo-boo on that one that after all these long years the Presbyterians have seen the error of God’s ways and remedied it.
I’m still unsure if they’re going to start calling them “The Nine Commandments” now. There goes that (now seriously outdated) Charlton Heston movie from movie night at the Presbyterian Church.
I thought when the Protestants demoted the Sixth Commandment to the seven spot, that was a big deal but this is much bigger. Helloooo? What part of ‘written in stone’ do they not understand? Or perhaps more to the point What part of God do they not understand?
The reason for this stunning action is essentially to erase any and all proscriptions against sexual behavior outside of marriage. They are even now calling for a vote to delete the church’s constitutional standard requiring fidelity in marriage and chastity in singleness.
To make a concise point, the Presbyterians obviously believe perhaps God didn’t know how good sex would feel before he implemented all those rules about it.
The assembly also initiated a process that could remove mention of the Bible’s prohibition against homosexuality in their catechism.
According to the Catholic News Agency, the moves are seen by some as an attempt to clear a path for the eventual ordination of practicing homosexuals to the church offices of deacon, elder, or minister.
This is the part that killed me. Because of all this lunacy, the assembly authorized the creation of a $2 million legal fund to litigate against churches which seek to transfer to other Reformed denominations while retaining their property. Perhaps they could add a Commandment: “Thou Shall Not Ever Leave the Presbyterian Church With Your Money!” I guess it’s easy to tell what golden calf they’re now worshipping.
Funny, when God inscribed the original Ten Commandments he didn’t need a legal fund or a team of lawyers. That should probably tell them something.
July 15, 2008 at 5:24 am
Here’s what I wrote. Of immediate concern is that the Assembly issued an “authoritative interpretation” that guts the fidelity and chastity language in the constitution (Book of Order) so that sessions (=church councils) and presbyeteries (=regional bodies) to ordain practicing gays now, today. This will happen in many locales. The facts on the ground having been established, reversing this mess will be impossible.
But what do we expect from prots anyway?
July 15, 2008 at 1:41 pm
In the process of getting rid of one of the Ten Commandments, two others are automatically violated–namely the 1st and the
2nd. These particular Presbyterians have made themselves higher than God and have misused His holy name in their collective sin. They are joining many of their post-Christian brethren, including not a few “progressives” among the nominal Catholics. I don’t see how they differ from the Vincentians at DePaul University, for example, and their promotion of Gay Studies and celebrations of homosexuality.
July 15, 2008 at 1:45 pm
It’s like monkey fighting over a wristwatch…let em go…
July 15, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Calvin and Knox must be rolling in their grave, but I guess this was inevitable … predestined!
July 15, 2008 at 3:34 pm
That was clever, rct.
July 15, 2008 at 5:26 pm
RCT,
LOL
July 15, 2008 at 5:46 pm
About six years ago I heard a Presbyterian Priestess lamenting that rule about chastity. She said, “That rule is ridiculous! How can anyone have a relationship, then?”
In the heart of that ministress, there was no 6th commandment to be erased.
July 15, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Presbyterian Church endorses mirror worship, by doing away with the Word of God.
Next PCUSA member who asks me “where is [catholic doctrine] in the Bible” will get reminded of what their church is doing.
July 16, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Stuff and nonsense. I’ll begin to care about what Presbyterians (or other wayward sects) believe when my culinary pallate shuns all taste save that of wonderbread and kool-aid.
July 24, 2008 at 6:35 am
Presbyterians?
They still have those around?
Huh!