Name: Belhar
Google count:49,700 for Belhar
Date:24 July 2008
Historic fact:
The Belhar Confession is a Christian statement of belief originally written in Afrikaans and adopted by the synod of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in South Africa in 1986.
Although the confession was useful as a tool to unify the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), it has also been a source of strife because a third church, the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) refuse to adopt it as an official confession of faith.
The Belhar Confession was authored in 1986 by Prof Dirkie Smit of the DRMC, and was adopted in the same year by the DRMC as an official confession of faith. When the DRMC and the DRCA united in 1994 to form the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), the newly formed denomination reaffirmed the Belhar Confession as one of their official confessions of faith.
The confession was named after a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, where a general synod of the DRMC was held in 1982.
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