“I do want to make the point here that Christians are not divided between those who have creeds and confessions and those who do not; rather, they are divided between those who have public creeds and confessions that are written down and exist as public documents, subject to public scrutiny, evaluation, and critique, and those who have private creeds and confessions that are often improvised, unwritten, and thus not open to public scrutiny, not susceptible to evaluation and, crucially and ironically, not, therefore, subject to testing by Scripture to see whether they are true.”
- Trueman, The Creedal Imperative (p. 15)
It’s a sad thing – in my experience, people with “unverbalized” confessional statements can tend to get very uncomfortable when asked to consider their own beliefs, even if their beliefs are right on the money. Leaving it unstated allows it to remain ill-defined and not necessarily defensible.
Precisely.
The first quote from your new book, isn’t it?
How’d ya guess?
Love this. Thanks for sharing.
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