Friday, February 8, 2008
Apostasy Within the Baptist Theology
General piece by
Rob Hood
Anyone who is a Southern Baptist or has even read the Southern Baptist Faith and Message booklet knows that there are certain core principles laid out in the Bible that cannot be changed. Any Southern Baptist or other denomination for that matter knows that God is the author of the Bible through His prophets and messengers. The core beliefs that we hold dear include the fact that God, not chance, created the heavens and the Earth and all living creatures and that man (Adam and his created wife, Eve) messed all of the perfection of creation up when he willingly chose to listen to Satan and to sin against God who made him.
As a result of disobedience through sin, death became the punishment, and the entire creation changed from a perfect world where lions and lambs could live peacefully together, to a wild and brutal survival game we call life. As an answer to this problem Jesus Christ willingly chose to come to this earth and die in our place so that all who would accept this offering of salvation could be saved when Judgment Day comes.
This is the basics of the Southern Baptist Faith and Message. To learn more, you’ll have to order the booklet from the Southern Baptist Convention because it is too lengthy to go into detail here in this article.
Now, about that apostasy that is in the title. Recently there has been a new movement by Baptists, no relation to Southern Baptists, to become a more moderate denomination and this has somewhat been led by former President Jimmy Carter. This more moderate (and more tolerant) denomination is nothing that we haven’t already seen with other denominations who choose to denounce the inerrant and Holy literal word of God and make up their own system of what is right and wrong and make up the kind of God that they think should be worshipped instead of worshipping the one true God who never changes.
The new movement does focus on some humanitarian goals which is just fine. The Southern Baptists and most all religious denominations have some type to humanitarian efforts to contribute to, as we should. The leaders in this new movement is called on its members to “help the poor”. While that sounds great and Jesus did teach that our goals as Christians are to help those who are poor, I can’t help but wondering in what way that these leaders are wanting to help. The specifics are not entirely known. I believing in helping poor people too, but unlike some modern day Democrats, I disagree that socialism is the answer to that problem. People like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and others were part of this gathering new movement. One more hidden reason for this gathering is to fight global warming. While climate change is real, it is not man-made. At the same time we are called to take care of God’s creation. We are stewards of the earth, but I don’t think believing lies about a made up story to control people’s lives and raise taxes is anywhere in the Bible. There is absolutely no evidence that humans are causing global warming, but there is plenty of evidence that radiation from the Sun is. The national left wing news media keeps ignoring this fact and the fact that global warming is impacting Mars, Neptune, and even Pluto. At this point I must ask Al Gore to go to Pluto and ask those pesky Plutonians to stop driving their SUVs and save their environment.
One man who attended this recent gathering in Atlanta, GA was the famous author John Grisham. Grisham spoke out and basically said that he didn’t not take the Bible literally as did the church that he grew up in. In short he took the left wing approach to theology and labeled real Christians who believe what God says in the Bible, and called them that nasty word that liberals label up as - “Intolerant”. For some reason, anyone who believes that homosexuality is a sin, abortion is murder, and socialism is Godly, is automatically labeled as “homophobic”, “intolerant”, “bigot” and so forth. Just think, these people who are calling us these names are the same people who ask others not to make judgments about some one else’s religious beliefs.
The Southern Baptist Convention is one of the last few remaining denominations who has and I hope always will reject secularism, humanism, Darwinism, liberalism, and apostasy in the church. The Bible must be taken literally where it is meant to be taken literally at in order for mankind to preserve the teachings therein and not lose our faith and our security that God provides through His Holy word. Homosexuality is wrong because God created two entirely different genders to raise families to worship Him. This was the entire purpose of our creation. If you don’t believe it, read Genesis as literal history and then you may understand this situation. Abortion was never intended. Homosexuality came as a result of sin. Greed came from sin. Murder, strife, envy, and all other problems that we face today can be traced back to when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden.
I encourage other fellow believers not to get discourage at this new movement because in time, God will correct this. So many times Israel was led astray as people today are being led astray and like His chosen people, we must repent, have a shaking, thunderous revival throughout this land, reclaim the supreme authority of the word of God, and only then can we be right with Him. Being more “moderate” in serving God will lead to going astray from what His word says and eventually astray from the truth of life. That is what we must reject at all costs. Apostasy and popular secualr peer pressure must be denounced,rejected, and kicked out of the House of the Lord before the Lord kicks us out of His house.
For more info see the following references:
References and Recommended Reading:
The Moderate New Baptist Covenant Led by Jimmy Carter
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2008/20080204145457.aspx
Southern baptist Offical says Grisham “off base”
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=66573
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