Paige Patterson encourages Calvinists to leave Southern Baptist Convention

[KingsGambit]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscr...=socialnetwork

The other speaker at the chapel used a particularly bad argument; guilt by association because some Calvinists smoke and drink.

[One Bad Pig]

Odd, since Baptists seem to be more Calvinists than not IIRC.

[KingsGambit]

Odd, since Baptists seem to be more Calvinists than not IIRC.

I'd bet almost anything your average churchgoer has no idea what Calvinism is.

[Obsidian]

In my experience, most Baptists aren't intellectual enough to fully embrace Calvinism, or to fully adopt (or create) any competing system. But there is a lot of Calvinist influence in the Southern Baptist Convention. Also, it's sad that they focus more on their man-made rules against drinking than they do on their formation of theology.

[One Bad Pig]

I'd bet almost anything your average churchgoer has no idea what Calvinism is.

In that case, I'm not sure I've ever encountered an "average churchgoer."

[Sparko]

They can't become Presbyterians because they were fated to be Baptists. They have no choice.

[robrecht]

As an outsider, I may not fully understand all of the theological nuances involved, but perhaps her position could be summarized as, 'Of course God loves everyone, even Calvinists, but not enough to let them have an occasional glass of wine.'

[Cow Poke]

I'd bet almost anything your average churchgoer has no idea what Calvinism is.

I'd take that bet!


(only if I wanted to lose bigly)

[Cow Poke]

In my experience, most Baptists aren't intellectual enough....

wow

[KingsGambit]

wow

Obsidian gonna Obsidian.

[Trout]

Calvinists are OK with dancing, as long as it's around the burning stakes of our Baptist brethren .

[One Bad Pig]

Calvinists are OK with dancing, as long as it's around the burning stakes of our Baptist brethren .

You had me until the "brethren" bit.

[Trout]

You had me until the "brethren" bit.

Vessels of destruction?

[Sparko]

Wasn't Calvinism invented by Calvin Klein to sell more jeans? That's what CNN told me and you can trust CNN for unfake news.

[Cow Poke]

You had me until the "brethren" bit.

because he was sexist and didn't include our cistern?