Hardsheller
There are some that add a sixth point. The sixth point is Sovereignty. TULIPS
Now, do I get any points for that? :D
Southern Baptist Calvinism
Discussion in '2005 Archive' started by Hardsheller, Jun 26, 2005.
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Gee, a fella can learn something every day.
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I will support the CP as long as Calvinism is not "required". I don't like SBTS going to all-Calvinist faculty, but I don't have to go there. Now, if ALL seminary professors in ALL SBC seminaries were required to be Calvinist...well, I'd probably not remain a Southern Baptist.
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"Required?" Like How?
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Some claim the sixth point as evangelism
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Evangelism as a Calvinistic 6th point would be quite a conundrum! :eek:
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I'm sorry that you feel that way, Diane. I would love to see the SBC become Calvinistic through and through. But I don't allow the Calvinism/Arminianism dispute to affect my ability to worship God with either Calvinists or Arminians.
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That must be the reason so many have left the SBC. </font>[/QUOTE]Precisely. If the BFM were made totally Calvinistic, I'd have to leave the convention. I don't have a problem with having Calvinists in the SBC; diversity in this matter doesn't bother me all that much. -
1. There are many Southern Baptists who wrongly think Calvinism and Evangelism cannot coexist. This is the BIG PROBLEM that many SBC NON-Calvinists have with SBC Calvinists.
2. Some Southern Baptists see it as a rewrite of history when SBC Calvinists claim that the majority of the Early Founders of the SBC were indeed Calvinists. Why do they believe this? Because For the last 75 years at least, the SBC Historians have downplayed and downright denied our Calvinistic roots.
3. Likewise the Anti-Missions Controversy of the 1800's has been blamed entirely on the Calvinists. There has been no serious scholastic examination that I am aware of concerning the FACT that the majority of Baptists who were arguing about Missions Organizations and Boards were indeed Calvinistic in their theology. So if there is a resurgence of Calvinism the thinking is "there go Missions."
4. If Calvinism were predominant in the SBC we'd have to revise our Doctrine of Man in our SBC Confessions. If you go back and trace the Doctrine of Man through the historic Baptist Confessions and bring it right up through the BF&M 2000 you discover that Man is getting better in SBC Theology and able to do more now to help himself spiritually than he used to be able to in the 1600's through the 1800's. Calvinism is thus seen as a theological threat to the methodology underlying many of our ministries.
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What was the SBC doing in the 1600's??
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Having potluck dinners.
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Evangelicals WHERE Calvinists. The very term as a "tag" was from the Englanders. Like everything else along with the 2nd law of thermodynamics, everything breaks down and what takes work gets ignored. That's how things over time get turned upside down. Evangelical NOW is any nut that shouts on a stage and a Puritan is a heretic.... what is right will be wrong.... and what is wrong will be right.
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