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Baptist Theology: A Critical Look
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| SBC Maverick Where Are You? |
| 04.24.04 (6:47 pm) [edit] |
Several years ago I used to enjoy the SBC Maverick Website. What happened to it? Was he killed by conservative Baptists? Did God strike him dead?
Inquiring minds want to know!
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| What Do You Think About Baptists? |
| 04.23.04 (7:14 am) [edit] |
I would like non-baptists and baptists alike to provide their impressions of Baptists.
What do you think about Baptists?
Don't worry about offending me or Baptists. I want honest answers. The "be nice" rule does not apply to this particular topic.
My Experience:
I still consider myself a baptist even though I no longer attend a Baptist Church. Those historic beliefs that are central to Baptists still resonate with me. However, I have found the judgmental attitude of many (not all) to be no longer tolerable. When I was about 6yrs old, my family was "churched" which means that the deacons came by our home and informed us that we were taken off the church roll. (My father had just been employed by a brewery. He asked why Jesus could make wine, but he couldn't make beer. Interestingly, he left his job at the munitions factory to work at the brewery. It was OK to make munitions to kill Vietnamese-it was during the Vietnam War, but not OK to make beer. He just didn't get it!)
Naturally, this had a negative impact on our family. However, I had experienced the love and nurture of many good Baptists so this experience instilled within me a critical eye toward the church, but because I had experienced the love of God from some within that tradition and had an authentic connection with God as a result of this community I knew I must remain within it.
This experience was repeated during my time at a Baptist Seminary. On the one hand, many viewed me as a heretic and a Liberal, but I also had several friends that loved (and still do) me in spite of our differences. That's really why I became a theologian. Because I wanted to have a voice within my tradition.
I am now teaching outside Baptist circles because of my leanings, but I continue to write about Baptist issues-got one book coming out this year and hopefully an article or two next year.
As I heard one Baptist prof say, "Many of my friends and all of my enemies are Baptists."
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| Broke My Own Rule! |
| 04.22.04 (12:08 pm) [edit] |
I noticed as I read back through my comment on the TNIV that I broke my own rule about being nice. Sorry for the namecalling (Fundamentalist morons is insulting and an oxymoron :D ).
I'll try to do better!
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| Hot Damn! I Agree With Paige Patterson! |
| 04.20.04 (6:34 pm) [edit] |
Improper View of 'Election' Hinders Evangelism, Baptist Theologian Says
By Jim Brown
February 20, 2003
(AgapePress) - The president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary says he is greatly troubled by a resurgence of Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention and how that will affect his denomination's evangelistic and missionary outreach.
Dr. Paige Patterson says he is concerned about reformed theology wherever it is being taught in Southern Baptist life. While Patterson says he has the utmost respect for reformed theologians and churchmen, Baptists should reject covenant theology and the notion that one can baptize infants and consider them a part of the covenant family.
"Generally speaking, the vast majority of Baptists have rejected the idea that the doctrine of election means that God, in eternity past, made some people to damn them, to show His judgment -- and in justice He made others to save them, to show His mercy," Patterson says.
"That has been a doctrine held by some Baptists, but not by the majority," he says. "The majority have always believed there's no man in the world for whom Christ did not die and who could not come to Christ."
Patterson, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, believes many reformed theologians have made a great contribution to the general cause of Christianity, but have taken a wrong view of the doctrine of election. He notes that twice in the Bible, election is linked to God's foreknowledge.
"I believe that God's predestination or election is based on the fact that He does know everything, unlike the openness theologians would try to tell us," Patterson says.
"[God] knows before we were ever born who will and who will not respond to the gospel message," he says, "and it is on the basis of His foreknowledge that election takes place -- not on the basis of some arbitrary decision on God's part to create some to damn them."
Patterson believes evangelism is hindered when churches teach that Jesus Christ died only for the elect.
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| TNIV Madness |
| 04.19.04 (9:47 am) [edit] |
I just ran across a website that was condemning the TNIV. I was at first amused by the comments of “scholars” who condemned the work for its inaccurate translation of the Greek. I was, of course, not surprised by the list of Fundamentalist morons and their lame excuses for rejecting the TNIV. They are obviously misogynist idiots who don’t understand what translation is all about.
I challenge any of them to condemn the KING JAMES bible for its numerous inaccuracies! I know they won’t because they don’t want to offend their ignorant congregants! I’m much more concerned with the numerous additions (Long ending of Mark, Lord’s Prayer, etc) of the KJV in light of Dt 4:2 and Rev 22:18. Why don’t they speak to these issues?
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