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Paul_S said:
My use of "sloppy" was addressing its use of "we expect" in a confession of this specificity; the very use of the term, in my mind, introduces ambiguity and uncertainty, not something you want in a confession for the ages.
The "we expect" sounds all too much like Jehovah's Witnesses whose writers always use that phrase when speaking of future events which they believe the Scriptures infallible teach. Of course, the JW's didn't come on the scene until nearly 200 years later, but the phrase strikes a sour note in my brain having read so much of their literature (aka: crap).

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Paul_S asked:
Did you mean above that this was actually an addition after the full Savoy gathering, or did you mean something else? If the former, do you have documentation?
I meant something else, e.g., section V reads as if it was an after thought, something tagged on after the first four sections had been carefully and prayerfully thought out. And, it is a rather unexpected place in the Confession to include this section on eschatology, at least in my mind. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


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