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More on the Second Baptist Houston court case: "Two important ideas came out of Dorfman’s ruling: Officers and directors of a nonprofit corporation owe their fiduciary responsibility to the corporation, not to individual members of the corporation; and churches as Texas nonprofits do not face...

I agree. Other things being equal, it is best for the church leadership to avoid publicizing the notions of known heretics or the gripes of perennial soreheads. Unfortunately, sometimes heretics and soreheads give themselves the platform and cannot be stopped from making their views known, in...

More commentary on the foolishness from crackpot Doug Wilson - he doesn't want Christian women to vote unless they are "heads of households." To the extent that his teaching is followed among Christians, it will depress the Republican/Christian Right vote and give the advantage in elections to...

I suppose the answer to this may yes, if the controversy cannot be handled and quelled in private discussions with that congregant. In the original article by Pastor Charles Dear, he used the example of the Acts 15 business meeting, at which the rather dangerous "notion" that "except ye be...

Another balanced view, from an IFB pastor, Charles Dear, Crescentville Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: "Baptists believe in democratic procedures that permit open discussion of problems and divergent views. This is right and Biblical. Please read Acts 15. Note that this is not a...

Gary Demar's take on the possibility of a literal Chinese invasion of Israel featuring 200,000,000 soldiers, all of them mounted on horses: "It’s being argued that the dried-up Euphrates is the marching route of a 200-million-man army from China on horseback (Rev. 9:13-21). The drying up of the...

For those who want to research the Second Baptist controversy further, there are these web sites from the plaintiffs: "The Senior Pastor, without a vote of the membership or a board of trustees elected by the members, now has ultimate control over the church and its $1 Billion in assets that...

It turns out that the American Center for Law and Justice (Jay Sekulow, director) was representing the church on this matter: "Second Baptist posted statements on their homepage in response to the ruling from Senior Pastor Ben Young and American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) Chief Counsel...

Latest case law on the subject of resistance by members against dictatorial authority in a church - this story from one year ago is about a lawsuit filed by church members of Second Baptist Church, Houston, Texas whose right to vote was taken away from them: "Jeremiah Counsel claims that...

Yes, hatred of the Jews is irrational. Anti-Semitism, and anti-Semites, should be repudiated by all of us. "On the one side, a generation of evangelical Christians have been taught that the Bible requires them to give unqualified support for the nation of Israel, politically, financially, and...

There are significant differences between the AV1611 and the 1769 revision - more than just spelling changes or typographical errors. So which of these two is the infallible version? They cannot both be infallible. Leviticus 26:23, 1611: "And if ye will not be reformed by these things." 1769...

"He Gets Us" update - supposedly the purpose of this glitzy, expensive advertising campaign was to get inquirers back into church and refer them to some kind of church, but they are not doing that any more - have not been doing that since 2024. The Christianity Today interviewer asked some...

For more background on the Northwoods sex scandal with Bill and Steve Gothard, and how it was covered up, see these links: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/plot-thickens-at-bob-jones-university/ https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/the-scandal-1980/ "Bill pulled in two men from Bob...

For those who missed the article in the April 5, 1982 Los Angeles Times exposing Gothard's shenanigans, here it is. Most Gothard supporters never saw the article - the Internet did not exist back then. https://www.recoveringgrace.org/media/LATimesArticle.pdf

Podcast discussing the Bill Gothard legacy, an interview with Don Veinot of Midwest Christian Outreach - you can listen to it, or read the transcript - click on "Show Transcript." https://roysreport.com/podcast/bill-gothard-a-legacy-of-abuse/?mc_cid=12490a17e3&mc_eid=5f87b5be9b A few excerpts...

As Christians, we are obligated to be Zionist and "stand with Israel," lest we be accused of hating the "Jooooos." However, it appears that most American Jews do not feel such an obligation - only 37% of them identify as Zionist, and for many of that subset of Jews, this does not equate with an...

This is where Stevo appeared to call for the deaths of his children - assuming that "destroy" means to kill them: "Controversial Faithful Word Baptist Church pastor Steven Anderson labeled his four eldest children 'evil' and said if they don’t repent, God needs to 'destroy' them during a Sunday...

Where is your Bible, Mr. Hard Knocks? According to your own reasoning, if you don't have the AV1611 originals, then you don't have a Bible.

Do we have the "originals" for the AV1611? Where are they? Without the AV1611 original manuscripts, you have nothing with which to verify your claim.

Mr. Knox, please explain why the "exact inerrant, complete copy of an inerrant translation in the 1769 edition of the AV1611" has different wording than the AV1611. Show your work.