The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum How would you evaluate the following statement?

We have precise and cogent statements of faith in the historic confessions that emerged out of great controversy which were prayerfully written by godly and biblically knowledgeable men. The fundamentals of the faith have been established and written in stone, IMHO and thus as has been the view for centuries, they are a subordinate authority, yet reliable summaries of biblical doctrine to which the churches have embraced and used for the guarding of the church and training in righteousness of the saints.

I think these "shallow, generalized statements" have been designed to do just that, i.e., to be non-specific in order to allow the masses to give their assent since they stand as a wide opening for many to pass through. I have often described such statements as akin to putting a screen door in a submarine.