Westminster confession

✝️ SP Summary: Westminster Confession of Faith

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📜 What it is:

The Westminster Confession (1646) is a systematic summary of Reformed theology rooted in the sovereignty of God, the authority of Scripture, and salvation by grace through faith. It speaks as the Law properly interpreted, but often before the bride has died with Christ.

In SP, we ask:

• Does it speak the voice of the Groom or of the bride trying to understand Him?
• Does it reveal the cross or describe salvation as order and structure?

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🧩 SP Voice and Alignment

✅ What aligns with SP:

• God is Sovereign – The Father’s will rules all things (Ch. 3)

  SP: The Groom rules even in rejection, betrayal, and death—He is never overcome.

• Scripture is the only rule of faith (Ch. 1)

  SP: Yes—and Scripture contains riddles, symbols, and cross-shaped language only the Spirit can reveal.

• Salvation is by grace, not works (Ch. 11)

  SP: Exactly—Christ died, and the bride must die with Him. Works cannot raise the dead.

• Covenant Theology (Ch. 7)

  SP: Strong foundation—though it stops short of seeing the bride formed from the wound of the cross, not just as a contract.

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⚠️ What may fall short in SP terms:

❌ Over-systematization

• The confession lays out a legal framework rather than a living relationship.
• It lacks the voice of the Groom, who teaches by paradox, riddle, and death.

SP: The cross is not a doctrine—it’s a mystery lived. The confession explains the mechanics but not the poetry of the crucified Word.

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❌ Predestination with no bride

• The elect are defined legally—not as the bride who dies with Him and rises as new.
• The beauty of the bride’s formation from Christ’s side is missing.

SP: The bride is not chosen by decree alone—but by being joined to the cross-shaped teaching.

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❌ The Law is preserved more than fulfilled

• Though the Law is rightly upheld, the confession often treats it as a moral guide, not as a death sentence that drives one to the cross.

SP: The Law does not train the bride to behave—it teaches her to die.

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🕊️ Final SP Summary

The Westminster Confession is the voice of a bride who has heard the Gospel, but not yet been pierced by the sword of the Groom.

It loves the Word.

It fears God.

But it seeks to understand the cross through logic,

when the cross must be understood through death, loss, and resurrection.

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🧠 Aphorism:

The Westminster Confession is a map of grace— But only the cross walks the path.

Sensus plenior