Featured SBC Response to CBF Hiring LGBT administrative Staff

You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. My own opinion would be that seeking control of the convention so as to keep the seminaries from sinking into theological liberalism is definitely about theology.

 

A great big double AMEN to the bolded portion!!

 

Skippy doesn't understand the convention when he/she/it say things like they do. The concern was about the bible and how it was being taught in our seminaries. In order to make that change it was necessary to make changes politically but those politics are how the convention is run. So to say it was about politics and not about theology is absurd. Further the evidence about the motivation of theology is seen in how our seminaries were dealt with. That just cannot be ignored. Skippy just says whatever he/sh/it wants to be true with no evidence to support it.

 

The "great" liberals.

 

Since we are ripping verses out of context to draw meaning, does that mean Paul also supported gender fluidity?

 

The issues during the CR was not about women's role in the church. It centered around inerrency (which is not complicated nor hard to define) and Genesis. When you do not believe in a literal Adam and Eve then you create a theological crisis with the gospel.

 

Groan...

 

Baloney and patently false. The biggies that spilled out into my sphere at the time was the view of Inspiration, Calvinism and Feminsim.

 

I think it is fair to point out that the conservatives wanted to have or regain control of the direction of the Southern Baptist Convention. So in that sense it might be called a "power grab" -- though that is a clearly intended pejorative term -- and it had to be done "politically," that is, by means of garnering enough votes to get people in the proper positions to have "power." To pretend it had nothing to do with theology is either a result of not knowing there were theological differences between liberals/moderates and conservatives/fundamentalists, or of deliberately trying to skew the perception.

I find it interesting that those who talk about the fundamentalist political power grab would seem to have us think that the liberals were just flower children floating on clouds with no interest of political control of the SBC. But many of them took their marbles and left when they lost power, so it obviously did some attraction for them.