PURITAN NEWS WEEKLY

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4/30/07

 

 

A LIST OF SOME SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES WITH THE RPCNA

 

By Parnell McCarter

 

Here is a list of some of the specific differences I have with the RPCNA:

 

·      Use of the NIV and implicit denial of the Received Text and the importance of a literal, non-dynamic equivalent translation

 

·      Rejection of the Establishment Principle

 

·      Allowing marriage within bonds of affinity

 

·      Rejection of full subscriptionism to the church’s confession

 

·      Allowing Christmas observance and other violations of the Regulative Principle of Worship

 

·      Allowing communion and communicant membership to Arminians and other heretics

 

·      No required adherence to historicism

 

·      Rejection of three-office view in favor of two-office view of officers in the church

 

·      Women deacons

 

  • Use of grape juice in the sacrament