The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Is the SBC Arminian, Calvinist, or Both?

The answer is, yes! I've heard preachers in the SBC say from the pulpit that we don't need theology, we just "gotta love Jesus," and I've heard some of the most excellent sermons on Eph. 2, or Rom. 8&9 where if you totaled up the points made in the sermon, there were 5 of them everytime (no numbers required, just the letters TULIP)! I went to a small SBC college, and learned in the classroom (Old Testament) that because God gave law against incest, there had to be people on earth besides Adam and Eve, and their children in Genesis, and that Job never happened, it's just an allegory, so on, and so forth. Then on the other side of things, I've heard wonderful things about the classroom experience at Southern Baptist Seminary in Al Mohler's stomping ground. The Baptist Faith and message leaves room for all of this. The difference, it seems, is the approach to writing such a statement. IMHO, the Baptist Faith and Message was written with a view of keeping the church together, whereas the London Baptist Confession, and Westminster Confession, where written for Biblical accuracy. The truth is shown, though, that there is no such thing as a completely Christian institution when it is run by sinful men!
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