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...United Presbyterian Church is disunited over a heresy case
...started at a routine meeting of delegates from Presbyterian congregations around Washington in 1979. On the agenda was the application of United Church of Christ Minister Mansfield M. Kaseman for Presbyterian credentials so he could serve as a clergyman in the Rockville (Md.) United Church, which belongs both to Kaseman's U.C.C. and the United Presbyterian Church...
During the meeting, the affable Kaseman was asked whether he believed Jesus Christ is God. "No," he responded, "God is God." Kaseman was accepted by a majority. But that answer stirred deep alarm in some delegates. In recent years conservative Presbyterians have had to swallow a fair degree of doctrinal flexibility, but they interpreted Kaseman's response as a denial of the deity of Christ. The conservatives filed a protest and eventually the Permanent Judicial Commission, the national supreme court of the 2.5 million-member United Presbyterian Church, bounced the case back to the local presbytery for further examination...
...traditional statement of Presbyterian faith had been the lengthy Westminster Confession of 1647. It includes the ancient definition of Jesus Christ as "the second Person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father." At the second examination last March, Kaseman was asked four times about Christ's bodily Resurrection. He finally said, "I believe in the Resurrection without necessarily believing in the bodily Resurrection." Though he said he "affirms" the doctrine of the Trinity, as required by the Presbyterian church, he indicated he is uncomfortable with traditional creeds and shuns doctrinal...
Twenty years later, the scientists tracked down the participants. The main finding: those who had consumed large amounts of cholesterol and saturated fat suffered upwards of a third more deaths from heart disease than those who consumed relatively small amounts. Says Epidemiologist Richard Shekelle of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's, author of the report in the New England Journal of Medicine: "If you look at the weight of the evidence over the years, then our study reinforces the conclusion that dietary cholesterol affects the level of cholesterol in the blood and increases the risk of heart disease...