Robin, you have expressed your love for the confessions and so I felt it would be an excellent place to go to find some fairly trustworthy material to bring some understanding of this issue. It isn't nit pickiness for the sake of being nit picky but to wrestle with an issue to gain understanding that is at the heart of my post here. I would love to have others join in to also wrestle with these doctrines so that we might all grow in our knowledge and understanding.

I have been encouraged to see how many people are making use of the new "Creeds and Confessions" section on the Board. Just the Westminster Larger Catechism alone has had close to 29,000 views since being posted this past winter. That tells me that there are people who are interested in searching for answers regardless of how active they are (or aren't) in posting on The Highway.

I would also hope that each one of us would be humble enough to welcome useful criticism or argument if in fact we err in some area. At the time, it might not feel great but if we can have a teachable spirit, we stand to gain.

The Chestnut Mare