BCO 15.6

15.6. 14-6

14-6. The General Assembly shall have power: a. To receive and issue* all appeals, references, and complaints regularly brought before it from the lower courts; to bear testimony against error in doctrine and immorality in practice, injuriously affecting the Church; to decide in all controversies respecting doctrine and discipline; b. To give its advice and instruction, in conformity with the Constitution, in all cases submitted to it; c. To review the records of the Presbyteries, to take care that the lower courts observe the Constitution; to redress whatever they may have done contrary to order; d. To devise measures for promoting the prosperity and enlargement of the Church; e. To erect new Presbyteries, and unite and divide those which were erected with their consent; f. To institute and superintend the agencies necessary in the general work of evangelization; to appoint ministers of such labors as fall under its jurisdiction; g. To suppress schismatical contentions and disputations, according to the rules provided therefor; * Editor's note: "Issue" means "settling the issue of the case". h. To receive under its jurisdiction, with the consent of three-fourths (3/4) of the Presbyteries, other ecclesiastical bodies whose organization is conformed to the doctrine and order of this Church; to authorize Presbyteries to exercise similar power in receiving bodies suited to become constituents of those courts, and lying within their geographical bounds respectively; i. To superintend the affairs of the whole Church; j. To correspond with other churches; to unite with other ecclesiastical bodies whose organization is conformed to the doctrines and order of this Church, such union to be effected by a mode of procedure defined in BCO 26; and k. In general to recommend measures for the promotion of charity, truth and holiness through all the churches under its care.

For discussion

1. Put this answer in your own words, then say what it rules out — what belief is it written against?