Scripture and the Church

The PCA Continues to Welcome Heretics

In new developments, the leadership of the PCA continues to demonstrate that it will not defend the Gospel against heresy.

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In new developments, the leadership of the PCA continues to demonstrate that it will not defend the Gospel against heresy.

November 2013 - The Presbyterian Church in America continues to descend ever deeper into the mire of apostasy. We discussed some of these developments last year in an article titled The PCA's Apostasy: No More Lines in the Sand. In the latest development in those matters, in October 2013 the PCA's Standing Judicial Commission refused to intervene to reverse the acquittal of the Peter Leithart, who teaches salvation by faith plus works commencing with water baptism. Thus Leithart is being permitting to continue as a minister in good standing in the denomination. The leadership of the PCA continues to demonstrate, in every case brought before it, that it will not defend the Gospel against heresy.

In a new development, Tenth Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Philadelphia has announced that Dr. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. will speak as part of the church's James Montgomery Boice Center Lecture Series. Gaffin, an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and emeritus professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadlephia, is one of the primary academic fathers of the false teaching embraced by Leithart and so many others. Over his entire lifetime Gaffin has taught that salvation commences with water baptism, is maintained by good works, and culminates in a "final justification" at the Last Judgment based not on faith in Christ alone, but on an individual's works. Formal protests against Gaffin's scheduled appearance have been rejected by Tenth Presbyterian's elders.

Ironically, Gaffin's scheduled topic at Tenth Presbyterian is "Inerrancy and Inspiration." Exactly what does Richard Gaffin believe about "inerrancy and inspiration"? How have those beliefs poisoned his approach to the Scriptures and salvation? Dr. Paul M. Elliott, president of TeachingtheWord Ministries, examined these questions in chapter six of his book, Christianity and Neo-Liberalism: The Spiritual Crisis in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Beyond (Trinity Foundation, 2005).

That chapter, along with new supporting material, has been published in the latest issue of The Trinity Review. We encourage you to read this article, and thus to "test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world" (1 John 4:1).

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