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Check your homework

Why should we study the Creeds and Confessions? Guy Waters - RTS professor writes in A Debtor to Mercy Alone: an interview with Guy Waters, part 1:

We don’t place the Standards over the Scripture, of course (WCF 1.10). The Standards and other faithful summaries of Christian doctrine allow us, as a friend of mine once put it, to “check our homework,” to compare our studies in the Scripture with those of competent and recognized students of the same.

I'm also watching a series of lectures on the Federal Vision given at Woodruff Road in February. Dr. Waters is one of the lecturers. He proves his point - the Westminster Confession of Faith allows us to "check our homework" as we look at errors such as the Federal Vision.
One of the complaints at the PCA General Assembly was that the study report on the FV needed more exegesis. But, if the study report is drawing from the Westminster Standards, we can have a level of confidence that a thorough exegesis has been done, unless of course we are looking to amend the Standards. Which may be the question for FV advocates.

Posted by Christine at June 26, 2007 7:57 AM