The Evangelical Presbyterian Churches are an offshoot of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. According to the Wikipedia article, the EPC split in the 1980s due to questions about the ordination of women.
Today, the EPC allows for the ordination of women, which, as mentioned before, violates I Timothy 2:12, which reads:
"I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet."
There are many other reasons why EPC churches are false churches leading many to Hell, and here are some of them:
The EPC has a motto:
"In essentials, unity; in non essentials, liberty; in all things, charity."
Now, that's all well and good, if by "non-essentials", you mean things that the Bible doesn't teach. Yet, it is all often that this is not the case. In the case of EPC, that is not the case, given that according to EPC's position paper on the Ordination of Women, they say:
"The Evangelical Presbyterian Church does not believe that the issue of the ordination of women is an essential of the faith."
Thus, they reject the Scriptures as partially "non-essential", also rejecting the following:
"...man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God." (Luke 4:4b, KJV) (also see Deuteronomy 8:3 and Matthew 4:4)
EPC leaders are made subject to a doctrinal statement of man called the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms:
"EPC pastors and the other leaders of the church (called Ruling Elders) take a vow when they are approved as leaders that they “receive and adopt the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Scriptures."And what is in this Westminster Confession of Faith?
The following are heresies which I found in the Westminster Confession of Faith. There may be more, but these are points of heresy that I am certain are heresy. As I've said before, I know in part (I Corinthians 13:9).
The WCF teaches that the Sabbath, which is the seventh day of the week (explicitly stated in Exodus 16:26), has been changed to the first day of the week "since the resurrection of Christ", since the first day is called "The Lord's Day". Nowhere in Scripture has the Sabbath been changed. To say it has, alters Scripture:
"Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar." -- Proverbs 30:6
In addition, a footnote is added to the Scripture citations the WCF gives, saying:
"these texts are cited in connection with the example of the apostles and the early church."
Here's the problem: Nowhere in the citation texts (for example, I Corinthians 16:1-2 on the special collection, Acts 20:7 referencing the Lord's Supper) does it suggest that the weekly meeting of Christians (what we call a church service) was a Sabbath gathering! The apostles didn't even call it a "Christian Sabbath" as the WCF does. Again, another addition to Scripture.
The WCF says:
"Dipping the person into the water is not necessary. Baptism is correctly administered by pouring or sprinkling water on the person."
This is a perversion of the Greek word for baptise, which is "baptizo", which, according to Strong's Dictionary, means "to make whelmed (that is, fully wet)". Is this not "dipping"?
Citations:
Wikipedia contributors. "Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 4 Jun. 2025. Web. 6 Jul. 2025.
"The EPC." EPC, www.epc.org/. Accessed 6 July 2025.
"The Westminster Confession of Faith in Modern English" EPC, https://epc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WCF-Online-Version.pdf,. Accessed 6 July 2025.