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Neo-orthodoxy knows better than, in this manner, to offend the fundamentalists openly. Don’t just throw the milk out of bottle and put polluted water in it. Give your polluted water the color of milk. Hang up the portrait of Warfield on your wall and tell the church that, together with him, you revere the standards of the church. Having done this, the fundamentalists will not likely notice the fact that, in your contemporary interpretation, you have, in effect, substituted a modern man-centered theology for the historic Christian faith. We are far from asserting that Hendry, or any of the other orthodox theologians, who together formulated the Confession of 1967, are self-consciously dishonest in their efforts. They may honestly believe that the Confession of 1967 and the Westminster Standards may both be called “Christian Confessions.” The Proposed Book of Confessions, which the drafting committee offers the church for acceptance, seems to suggest that the Augustinian and the Pelagian views of grace are not really opposites. If, however, these men really can think that this is the case, we can only stand amazed at their capacity for self-deception.