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The Westminster Confession of Faith, or simply the Westminster Confession, is a Reformed confession of faith. Drawn up by the 1646 Westminster Assembly as part of the Westminster Standards to be a confession of the Church of England, it became and remains the "subordinate standard" of doctrine in the Church of Scotland and has been influential within Presbyterian churches worldwide.
In the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, God "freely and unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass." [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The second use of the word " predestination " applies this to salvation, and refers to the belief that God appointed the eternal destiny of some to salvation by grace, while leaving the remainder to receive eternal ...
The Westminster Confession. Title page, 1st ed. The reformed confessions of faith are the confessional documents of various Reformed churches.These express the doctrinal views of the churches adopting the confession.
The Westminster Confession of Faith also teaches (in Hodge's words "clearly impl[ies]") the infralapsarian [94] view, but is sensitive to those holding to supralapsarianism. [95] The Lapsarian controversy has a few vocal proponents on each side today, but overall it does not receive much attention among modern Calvinists.
As the Westminster Confession of Faith put it: "God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatever comes to pass." [59] Concerning salvation, Calvin expressly taught that it is God's sovereign decision to determine whether an individual is saved or damned.
The PCK is a Reformed denomination in Korea which accepts the Westminster standards as its confession. The church also recognizes "Three Forms of Unity", to be same as the Westminster Standards. Kosin church wants to be a biblical and confessional denomination, pure in doctrine and life.
The five points are popularly said to summarize the Canons of Dort; however, there is no historical relationship between them, and some scholars argue that their language distorts the meaning of the Canons, Calvin's theology, and the theology of 17th-century Calvinistic orthodoxy, particularly in the language of total depravity and limited ...
In the second half of the 1630s, Calvinistic Baptists emerged. [53] Eventually, in 1644, they published their own confession, the First London Baptist Confession, with a second edition being published two years later. Meanwhile, in 1653, Congregationalists, borrowing heavily from the Westminster Confession, wrote the Savoy Declaration.