Predestination and free will are mutually exclusive.
Wow. Love the rhetorical flourish that started the answer to that question.For those that haven't seen it, here's Dr. Moore's trenchant repsonse to a backwoods pastor.
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Wow. Love the rhetorical flourish that started the answer to that question.
Do the Dutch still reform?Do the Southern Baptist still baptize?
Do the Southern Baptist still baptize?
no no.....The largest Baptist Church in Oklahoma a few years back quit requiring Baptizing. I can't keep track of the various strains of Baptists...
Baptists treading baptism issue | News OK
Agreed.
Baptist Church membership minimums: Saved and Baptized.
So the thing about the SBC is there's a lot of autonomy for individual churches. You've got to be doing it really wrong to get kicked out (like infant baptism ). The church in question still baptizes, yet they don't see a strong case for it to be a membership requirement; my guess is that it is strongly encouraged, especially since it's strongly encouraged that baptism closely follows salvation.
In other words, this church is an anomaly, yet because the SBC's values independence it's allowed to be in communion; it's what allows them to be the largest protestant denomination in the USA.
But not all Baptist would allow this... The history of Baptist in America is one riddled with splits and fractures over trivial doctrine... and carpet color.
PS - I'm not a Southern Baptist, just a fan (I'm a regular Baptist).