Jelte Numan
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1500 Conscientious Objectors Write to RCN Synod
An appeal by 1500 concerned church members was declared inadmissible by synod of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (RCN – Dutch sister churches of the FRCA and...
“Has sin not been abolished?” by S de Marie
Under the heading ‘Pope has not abolished sin' an article taken from the Church News magazine was published in a number of newspapers earlier this month. It gave the Vatican’s response...
Hermeneutics Conference, Hamilton, January 2014
Why all this sudden interest in hermeneutics? It’s because our Dutch sister churches, the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (RCN), are reinterpreting Scripture in order to make it more acceptable...
“Read what it says” by T L Bruinius (about the new hermeneutics)
Read what it says, leave alone what you read! This is the old reformed starting point for how we should read the Bible. It is the most important rule. If we abandon...
Rachel’s Grief
Matthew 2: 17, 18: “Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted.”The prophecy of Rachel’s grief, says...