WHAT DO PRESBYTERIANS BELIEVE TODAY?
This question is almost impossible to answer because, although the United Presbyterian Church still claims to be a confessional church, actually it is a pluralistic church – a church where various degrees of belief and unbelief are not only tolerated but welcomed! Instead of one confession of faith, they now have nine, including The Confession of 1967 which was the product of liberal and neo-orthodox scholarship. This latter confession, while claiming to be a re-affirmation and restatement of historic Christian and Presbyterian doctrinal beliefs, is actually a vivid example of how false teachers use feigned words to deceive. The Westminster Confession of Faith is conveniently relegated to the reference shelf rather than its historic use as a standard expression of Presbyterian beliefs. With this change, applicants for ordination in the UPC were no longer asked to receive and adopt the Westminster Confession of Faith but only to be “under the authority of the Scriptures, and under the c
