APPENDIX A
Statement
by the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPC) of Ireland on the gospel
offer (13 June, 1995).
This
statement originated in the opposition of myself and another member of the RPC
to the doctrine of the well-meant offer of the gospel. At the time, we had both
made application to become ministerial students. Knowing that the teaching of
the free (or well-meant) offer was being vigorously promoted by some prominent
ministers of the church, we thought it well to state our opposition to this
teaching from the outset. As a result, our applications were refused and the
church subsequently made its statement. The statement was ambiguous; its
conclusion purported to reject certain statements, or propositions, which were
of themselves negative, meaning the church affirmed nothing. The statement was
also ambiguous in that it failed to say who was guilty of the propositions to
which it objected and was thus without theological context.
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