I got an email notification from Ethics Daily yesterday, announcing a new curriculum available from Acadia.
The questions it poses signify how it has become neccessary, as I was bemonaing this past weekend, to “protect” and “defend” the meaning of Baptist, a nd to provide an apologetic to combat the damaging and embarassing shambles made of the Southern Baptist name by the presently “in power”. I say that in quotes becuase that’s basically what this is about: POWER. It’s not theology, although this is what they would have you believe. The proof of this is how they also blacklist people who agree with the theological points, but who do NOT approve of “theological witch hunts” and the “trumped up theological heresy” charges cobbled together by deceit, misrepresentation, and malice.
The questions posed by the email ad:
Do real Baptists . . .
preach authority, or practice autonomy? dictate creeds, or encourage soul competency? indoctrinate, or educate? exclude, or include? separate, or cooperate?
Being Baptist means moving forward to engage proactively and productively with our culture and throughout the world, including working for unity within the larger Christian community.
On the matter of “preach authority, or practice autonomy?” SBC, choice A.
“dictate creeds, or encourage soul competency?” SBC, choice A. (Denominational empoyees must sign the newly worded Baptist Faith and Message….and even here, the “interpretation” of a choice few is supreme and unquestioned (at least by them)
“indoctrinate, or educate?” SBC, and SBTS, choice A. (All of the profs I had are either retired or teaching elsewhere. Boy did I ever get in and get out at just the last moment — 1978-81, during the last days of Duke McCall’s presidency and the start of Roy Honeycutt)
“exclude, or include? ” SBC, choice A. (The only “inclusiveness” practiced by the SBC is inthe rush to include every republican platform item into a Biblical mandate)
“separate, or cooperate?” SBC, choice A (Latest case in point, SBC ‘s voting to withdraw from the Baptist World Alliance)
“…working for unity within the larger Christian community…” Fail, and actually opposes these efforts. (visavi the above point)
SBC 100% non-Baptist.