Head/Law-based Christianity

A bit earlier I wrote about a problem I have with Christianity being too much about thinking-doing -- thinking/believing the right doctrines and doing the right acts (or avoiding the wrong ones). A friend sent me a perfect example.

This website lists the doctrinal beliefs one must hold in order to participate in communion, baptism or become a member in the reformed presbyterian church.

Here's an excerpt (there are actually a total of 134 questions that one must answer in order to be able to take the Lord's Supper):


Questions asked for admission to the Lord's Supper
Term #1
An acknowledgment of the Old and New Testament to be the Word of God, and the alone infallible rule of faith and practice.

1. What do the scriptures principally teach?
2. What does the phrase "alone infallible" mean?
3. How does the term infallible differ from inerrant?
4. What is the infallible rule of the interpretation of Scripture?
5. Where does our full persuasion and assurance of the infallibility of Scripture come from?
6. Do you read your bible daily?


Term #2
That the whole doctrine of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Catechisms, Larger and Shorter, are agreeable unto, and founded upon the Scriptures.

1. What is meant by the phrase "the whole doctrine".
2. How can uninspired documents be used as standards of the church if the word of God is the alone infallible rule of faith and practice?
3. What does it mean when we say these standards are "agreeable to" the Scriptures?
4. What are the subordinate standards of the Reformed Presbytery in North America (General Meeting)?
5. Do you have any known disagreement with these subordinate standards?
6. Are there any truths which are non essential or too small and insignificant to uphold as necessary to be believed.
7. Which of the three documents mentioned was produced first?