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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Jon Sanders :: Townhall.com Columnist
Southern Baptists to Save the World (Not Like Matthew 28, Though)
by Jon Sanders
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And when he had opened the third and a half seal, I heard the voice of the third and a half beast say, "Get thee a load of this."

And I looked, and behold a green horse: and his name that sat on him was Warming, and gore followed with him. And power was given unto them over the climate of the earth, to heat or to freeze, to destroy with the tempest or the lack of tempest, with flood and fire or drought and ice, and with exceeding tedium.

Hallelujah! The Southern Baptists have finally found themselves an issue in which they can be praised of men!

You see, unlike those of some other denominations, the leaders of the Southern Baptists have maddeningly asserted that marriage is between a man and a woman just because what they call the Word of God says so, and whom the call the Son of God said it, too.

If that wasn't bad enough, they also refused to exempt acts of homosexuality from Biblical injunctions against sexual immorality in general.

Plus, they state outright that personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord is the only way to salvation. As if they forget there are other religions out there!

Such stridency is just out of step with these modern times, and nonbelievers throughout America let them know how wrong they are. The idea of a Creator God setting the rules is just too old school. God needed to get with the times, and the Baptists were standing in the way. Why couldn't they just see that Jesus was a nice man who told people to pay their taxes and give to the poor (and if you vote for the right "liberal" you can do both at the same time?

Don't underestimate the effects of these secular outcries against the Southern Baptists. They found them quite upsetting. After all, didn't Jesus tell his disciples that if they played their cards right, the world would welcome them with open arms?

So it is with palpable relief that the Baptist leaders announced their fealty with their co-religionists in the global warming creed. They did so in a declaration released Monday, March 10. The declaration appears weighted according to three principles: Biblical stewardship, prudence, and caring for the poor. Continued...
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Jon Sanders is a policy analyst and research editor at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, N.C.

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Reply # 1
Date: Apr 17, 2008 - 3:57 PM EST
It was NOT an SBC declaration
Jon Sanders is wrong.

The media misrepresented a seminary student's initiative as that of the SBC because the student named the initiative, "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change."

However, the SBC position statement passed as a body in June 2007, is vastly different and represents the official consensus statement of Southern Baptists.

The news report, "Seminary student's climate change project is not SBC's," http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27582, carries the correct information.

Here is a link the true position adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention, 2007 SBC Resolution on Global Warming, http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27583.

-- Will
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Reply # 2
Date: Mar 14, 2008 - 9:45 AM EST
Charles
"Unless you can show a theology handed down from the beginning, it is truly impossible for the Baptists to claim any direct link to the Apostles."

Historians make new discoveries all the time, so who are we to say that they'll never discovery a theology handed down from the first century? I'll admit it's highly improbable, but not impossible.

In any case, my argument was that Baptists did not begin with Roger Williams. That much has been verified beyond reasonable doubt.
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