The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Changes to the WCF

I am very much convinced that if you put a bunch of so-called "scholars" together you are most likely going to end up with a document that is tentative and subtly open. Just look at recent history at how they dealt with the situations where heresy had to be rooted out and how the "scholars" handled those situations, e.g., Norman Shepherd, Auburn Avenue, N.T. Wright, etc.

What you really need is to include a contingency of solidly conservative and knowledgeable laymen who have a voice. When the CRC was cruising merrily along down the road to apostasy, there was a group of men and women who formed "The Association of Christian Reformed Laymen". [see their publication, A Handbook of CRC Issues. Unfortunately, they were basically ignored by the "scholars" and "clergy" but they did a great service in sounding the alarm when the "upper crust" erred and for providing arguments against them with biblical truth. I have to believe that their efforts, although not successful in stemming the tide, were invaluable in opening the eyes of many who would have otherwise been carried away as did the majority of others.

There are many good laymen to be found who have far more common sense and discernment than many, if not most "scholars" who spend far too much of their time in the cerebral ionosphere where the oxygen supply is lacking... ya know what I mean here, Vern?