Another SPLIT from the UPCI???

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Maple Leaf

The Affirmation Statement was endorsed and retained by a majority vote of the General Conference, and not just by "a few neanderthals."

You may view it as a joke, but I can assure you that the congregations it split and the minister's it disfellowshipped don't.

GraceAmazing said it earlier: "It's a matter of integrity."

I'm surprised, given your vintage, that you view the matter of a signature and a man's word so flippantly.

It's hardly a "blue law" that nobody pays any attention to; if you fail to sign it, you lose your credentials, and potentially your livelihood.

The AS passed by "questionable" procedure and because of a lie by a high ranking official.

The original (1945) statement on holiness in the Articles of Faith would have been fine but it was amended in 1954 to include opinions of a militant minority.

It is my opinion that the proposal, adoption, and subsequent blood-letting and upheaval of the Affirmation Statement is pretty well described in Proverbs 6:16-19.

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a licensed or ordained minister in the UPC (Under Privileged Children) organization so my opinion is not important.