(16)Presbyterian Church

(16)Presbyterian Church The Presbyterian Church began in Scotland in 1560 under the leadership of John Knox. 
The Presbyterian Church gets its name from the Greek word “presbuteros” which means “elder”. They were governed by the Westminister Confession of Faith which was revised in 1967. 

 John Calvin did not begin the Presbyterian Church, but he laid the foundation for much of its doctrine. Many of the Presbyterian beliefs came from Calvin. John Calvin is the founder of the doctrine called Calvinism as is represented in the word TULIP. 

Calvin’s false doctrine can be summed up in five points:
 1) Total Depravity, 2) Unconditional Election, 3) Limited Atonement, 
4) Irresistible Grace, and 5) Perseverance of the Saints. 
From Calvinism they believe that God has predestined and foreordained from the beginning of the world those individual people who are to be saved and those to be lost. 
But this contradicts what the Bible says in 1 Timothy 2:3-4, 
"For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."

 God "desires all men to be saved", but each person makes the choice to obey God and go to Heaven or not to obey Him and be eternally lost in Hell. They falsely teach that because God has already selected 
the individual people who are to be saved they believe the 
Holy Spirit acts directly upon the heart of the individual 
to persuade him to obey the gospel. 

They believe that one cannot fall from God’s grace and be lost, 
but the Bible says differently in Galatians 5:4. Their "baptismal mode" 
is usually sprinkling or pouring. They practice infant "baptism". 
They also have women preachers. 

(Showing what they falsely teach and practice concerning salvation) Presbyterian ChurchQuotes copied & pasted from: http://www.pcanet.org/general/cof_contents.htm
THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITHCHAP. X.

 - Of Effectual Calling.

1. All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased, inHis appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by His word and Spirit, out of thatstate of sin and death

3. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, 

and saved by Christ, through theSpirit

4. Others, not elected, although they may be called by the 

ministry of the Word, andmay have some common 

operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly 

come unto Christ,and therefore cannot be saved.

CHAP. XVII. - Of the Perseverance of the Saints.

1. They, whom God hath accepted in His Beloved, 

effectually called, and sanctified byHis Spirit, can neither 

totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, 

but shallcertainly persevere therein to the end, 

and be eternally saved.

CHAP. XXVIII. - Of Baptism.

3. Dipping of the person into 

the water is not necessary; but Baptism is rightlyadministered by pouring, or sprinkling water upon the person.

4. Not only those that do actually profess faith in and 

obedience unto Christ, but also theinfants of one, 

or both, believing parents, are to be baptized.