[Vision2020] Federal Covenant Breakers

Mon Oct 22 10:51:29 PDT 2007

Doug does not follow his own words for a really big reason - HE IS NOT ORDAINED!!!!!

As has been pointed out numerous times, Doug was accepted as an ELDER in another church, broke out to "create" his church and has YET to be ordained by any church - recognized as a church or not.  He is simply not a minister, therefore does not have to follow his own decrees; i.e. "Do as I demand, not as I do."

He is free to break any "convenient" he wishes - and he does break them all the time.  

J  :]

Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:05:17 -0700
From: news.of.christ.cult at gmail.com
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Federal Covenant Breakers

http://federal-vision.blogspot.com/2007/10/federal-covenant-breakers.html

Saturday, October 20, 2007

          Federal Covenant Breakers

      The
Federal Vision places enormous emphasis on "the Covenant," and
consequently members of the Federal Vision sect (known as Federal
Visionists) pay great lip service to those who "keep covenant" and,
likewise, they heap tremendous contempt on "covenant breakers." For
example, the Federal Vision manifesto states:
We
therefore receive all baptized individuals as covenant members. "[Y]et
it must be emphasized, that until the Church acts to formally remove
someone from the covenant by way of excommunication, all baptized
persons are to be considered full covenant members." (FN: Randy Booth,
"Covenantal Antithesis" in The Standard Bearer: A Festschrift for Greg Bahnsen,
ed. by Steve Schlissel (Nagadoches: Covenant Media Press, 2002), 40.)
When we do this in the case of covenant breakers, we are treating their
baptisms with greater respect than they do. . . But we are saying that
baptism provides the faithful covenant member with the means to exhort
disobedient Christians in terms of their baptism: "Why do you despise
your baptism the way you do?" (Douglas Wilson, "Reformed" Is Not Enough [Moscow: Canon Press, 2003] 106, 107)
Now,
I don't buy the premise, so I reject the argument. In fact, whenever
you read anything by Wilson, it behooves you to sniff once and think
twice before you proceed. But that said, let's just apply his
conclusion to the Federal Visionists in the PCA.

According to the PCA's "Questions for Ordination," found in BCO § 21-5, all PCA ministers must take the following vow:

Do you sincerely receive and adopt the Confession of Faith and the Catechisms
of this Church, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy
Scriptures; and do you further promise that if at any time you find
yourself out of accord with any of the fundamentals of this system of
doctrine, you will on your own initiative, make known to your
Presbytery the change which has taken place in your views since the
assumption of this ordination vow?
And all over RINE Wilson badgers us with the principle of how a marriage vow makes a husband and how breaking that vow makes a covenant-breaking
husband, which brings us to those ministers in the PCA and their vows.
Four months ago, the PCA GA voted by an overwhelming majority to adopt
a report condemning the Federal Vision as not conforming to the
Westminster standards. Moreover, the same overwhelming majority voted
to remind all ministers

That the General Assembly
recommend the declarations in this report as a faithful exposition of
the Westminster Standards, and further reminds those ruling and
teaching elders whose views are out of accord with our Standards of
their obligation to make known to their courts any differences in their
views.
In other words, PCA ministers who hold the
Federal Vision have an affirmative responsibility to uphold the vow
they made at ordination and inform their presbyteries that they no
longer "receive and adopt the Confession of Faith and the Catechisms
of this Church, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy
Scriptures," or else they are "covenant breakers" according to the
Federal Vision. To be sure, they have an absolute obligation to make
known to their courts any differences in their views, or else
by their standards they disdain their baptism. This brings us to
Wilson's declaration about "covenant breakers."

I wonder why
CREC founder Douglas Wilson has not berated his fellow Federal
Visionists in the PCA for "despising their baptism the way they do!"
Indeed, I wonder why CREC moderator Randy Booth has not called upon the
PCA to honor the baptisms of his fellow Federal Visionists in the PCA
by excommunicating them from the Church for covenant breaking? These
inquiries are fair enough given how much the Federal Visionists hector
us about "covenant keeping."

And I suspect the reason we don't
see any CREC dignitaries howling about their fellow Federal Visionists'
flagrant covenant breaking in the PCA has more to do with their
subversive agenda than their professed high ecclesiology. Either that
or they are the men described by Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary:

HYPOCRITE, n.
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Thank you.

          Posted by
          Mark T.

          at

          6:25 PM

-- 

Juanita Flores
Advocate for the Truth from Jesus

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