Church members given fraudulent facts
___A single document recently distributed in a Texas Baptist church illustrates the way lies are being spread about the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___The sheet is titled "Summary of the BGCT and SBC Issues." It is divided into three columns, with the first column listing an issue, the second column listing the position of the Southern Baptist Convention and Southern Baptists of Texas Convention on that issue and
the third column listing the supposed position of the BGCT, Texas Baptists Committed and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
___Nearly every position assigned to the BGCT is verifiably incorrect.
___The unsigned document asserts that the BGCT does not believe in the virgin birth of Christ. In reality, the BGCT has strongly affirmed the 1963 Baptist Faith & Message, which includes a statement explicitly affirming the virgin birth. The convention has taken no other action to negate its affirmation of the virgin birth.
___The document says the SBC and SBTC believe that "Jesus died in my place for my sin" but the BGCT does not. Yet there is no record of the BGCT espousing any other position of the atonement other than that Christ died as a sacrifice for sin. The 1963 Baptist Faith & Message, the official doctrinal statement of the BGCT, explicitly states the belief that Christ "by his own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer."
___The document says the BGCT "includes gay families" in its definition of families and does not view homosexuality as a sin. Yet the BGCT in annual session has plainly labeled the homosexual lifestyle as "not normal or acceptable in God's sight" and as "sin."
___The document further claims that the SBC and SBTC view the Bible as "the inerrant, infallible word of God," with the term "inerrant" endorsed as defined in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. By contrast, the BGCT "does not hold to inerrancy of the Bible as defined by the Chicago Statement," it purports.
___In reality, neither the SBC nor the BGCT has formally affirmed or adopted the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Even the 2000 version of the Baptist Faith & Message adopted by the SBC does not use the words "inerrant" or "inerrancy" to describe the Bible.
___Both the BGCT and SBC have in various ways stated affirmations of the truthfulness and authority of the Scriptures without using the word "inerrant," which is perceived to be a highly pejorative term upon which even fundamentalist biblical scholars cannot agree.
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