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Some Southern Baptists have organized. This is a tremendous statement, displaying the dramatic difference between what the Reformers are claiming of Baptist History, and what actual Baptist History, especially within the SBC experience, has been.
http://sbctoday.com/2012/05/30/an-introduction-to-%E2%80%9Ca-statement-of-the-traditional-southern-baptist-understanding-of-god%E2%80%99s-plan-of-salvation%E2%80%9D/
Read the entire thing, but here are a few juicy good ones to tantalize your tastebuds...
Makes me wish I could sign it. Have any of you noticed who all HAVE signed it?!?
Take a look, here: http://sbctoday.com/2012/06/01/list-of-signers-of-%E2%80%9Ca-statement-of-the-traditional-southern-baptist-understanding-of-god%E2%80%99s-plan-of-salvation/
Six, count them, SIX past presidents of the Convention, including Paige Patterson, Jerry Vines, and Bailey Smith. Many of these were architects of the conservative take over and hold a lot of influence.
It looks like the "Reformed takeover" of the SBC may have a limited run. Praise God!!
http://sbctoday.com/2012/05/30/an-introduction-to-%E2%80%9Ca-statement-of-the-traditional-southern-baptist-understanding-of-god%E2%80%99s-plan-of-salvation%E2%80%9D/
Read the entire thing, but here are a few juicy good ones to tantalize your tastebuds...
Article Three: The Atonement of Christ
We affirm that the penal substitution of Christ is the only available and effective sacrifice for the sins of every person.
We deny that this atonement results in salvation without a person’s free response of repentance and faith. We deny that God imposes or withholds this atonement without respect to an act of the person’s free will. We deny that Christ died only for the sins of those who will be saved.
Psalm 22:1-31; Isaiah 53:1-12; John 12:32, 14:6; Acts 10:39-43; Acts 16:30-32; Romans 3:21-26; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:10-14; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:13-20; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 9:12-15, 24-28; 10:1-18; I John 1:7; 2:2
Article Five: The Regeneration of the Sinner
We affirm that any person who responds to the Gospel with repentance and faith is born again through the power of the Holy Spirit. He is a new creation in Christ and enters, at the moment he believes, into eternal life.
We deny that any person is regenerated prior to or apart from hearing and responding to the Gospel.
Luke 15:24; John 3:3; 7:37-39; 10:10; 16:7-14; Acts 2:37-39; Romans 6:4-11; 10:14; 1 Corinthians 15:22; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 2:20; 6:15; Colossians 2:13; 1 Peter 3:18
Article Seven: The Sovereignty of God
We affirm God’s eternal knowledge of and sovereignty over every person’s salvation or condemnation.
We deny that God’s sovereignty and knowledge require Him to cause a person’s acceptance or rejection of faith in Christ.
Genesis 1:1; 6:5-8; 18:16-33; 22; 2 Samuel 24:13-14; 1 Chronicles 29:10-20; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Joel 2:32; Psalm 23; 51:4; 139:1-6; Proverbs 15:3; John 6:44; Romans 11:3; Titus 3:3-7; James 1:13-15; Hebrews 11:6, 12:28; 1 Peter 1:17
Makes me wish I could sign it. Have any of you noticed who all HAVE signed it?!?
Take a look, here: http://sbctoday.com/2012/06/01/list-of-signers-of-%E2%80%9Ca-statement-of-the-traditional-southern-baptist-understanding-of-god%E2%80%99s-plan-of-salvation/
Six, count them, SIX past presidents of the Convention, including Paige Patterson, Jerry Vines, and Bailey Smith. Many of these were architects of the conservative take over and hold a lot of influence.
It looks like the "Reformed takeover" of the SBC may have a limited run. Praise God!!