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This article sprang out of an email I sent to a Christian bother who felt that the Free Presbyterian Church’s actions in  its protests in the past could not be justified from the Word of God. Naturally, I disagreed.

I tried to set forth the reason why back in the heyday of our protests, when Dr Paisley was in his prime, we believed we were obeying the Word of God in going out to challenge the Ecumenists, Modernists and Romanisers, who had taken over the established denominations.

I hope the article it is helpful to younger Free Presbyterians.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

Explaining the stand of the Free Presbyterian Church since its founding.

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear,” 1 Peter 3:15.

In this article, I would like to try and give the Protestant perspective of the political and religious controversies here in Northern Ireland.

As we look at the state of things today in Northern Ireland, there is one in high office who upholds the political view that the IRA were right in their terrorism and generally did no wrong. Sinn Fein leader, Michelle O’Neill, who is ‘First Minister’ in the Stormont Assembly,  has the support of many in the electorate who believe that the only ones who had the right ‘to shoot to kill’ were the members of the IRA.

It is for this reason that there have been ongoing attempts by such to punish, by imprisonment, soldiers and policemen, who in the course of their duty and in the defence of life, shot those engaged in terrorism. (more…)

This is copied from the BBC Northern Ireland news website of today (3/3/25).

The repudiation of the IRA campaign of murder and slaughter by this man is self-extolling and falls far short of true Biblical repentance.

He only changed his views when it became possible that he would become a victim of the terrorism that he had practised on others!

To say that the IRA’s campaign of slaughter ‘was a total waste, absolute total waste of energy, of life, of resources’ is very far removed for a true acknowledgment before God, that he is guilty of heinous crimes deserving of the wrath of God!

Such is the standard ‘expressions of sorrow’ offered by Irish Republicans. Regularly you have evidence of this hypocrisy and affected piety and posturing, as was the recent case of the ‘First Minister’, Michelle O’Neill’s extolling of IRA murderer, Brendan McFarlane.

See:—

Sinn Féin defends tributes to IRA man

All that grows and sprouts from the fallacious roots of Romanism is false and fraudulent!  The BBC and others of that ilk, may be ready to ‘canonise’ this murderer, but that is not how heaven sees his kind! (more…)