So we still believe them, therefore there s no immediate threat to us. I m just giving you an example. Yeah, I think that ultimately that s correct. Either the Christian Reformed Church has to discipline. We should not just think simply in terms of repent.
Repentance has to be accompanied by discipline.
You see, all the examples that we gave, what we saw is that people who hold irreconcilable positions cannot habitate, cannot live together in the same place. One of them has to go. So if Van Til, and Mel Huigen, and all those who hold to those other positions are not excluded from the Christian Reformed Church, then by default the Christian Reformed Church holds to those positions whether they are officially adopted or not, as long as those people have a haven, those who deny the historicity of Genesis or whatever it is. So, yes, you cannot long remain together. But exactly when you would leave is a question that a council has to decide.