The Southern Baptist Seminary has been taken over by Calvinism. Thanks, Mohler.
You are right. But your comment is a bit beside the point of this column. Calvinists like Macarthur stand very much contrary to women speaking in church. So if SBC seminary is going soft on that point, while becoming more calvinistic, there is some disconnect going on.
Anyway, Macarthur is way too big of a grouch. I think the scripture is clear that grouchiness is out of place in the church. He also thinks of himself more highly than he ought. At a conference last year I heard him say he has a hard time staying humble.
‘The Southern Baptist Convention has been taken over by Calvinists’....
......as a Calvinist I can’t find anything wrong with this statement :)
What has that to do with the issues raised by MacArthur? Mohler (as are most Calvinists) is strongly complementarian as we as a rock with regard to the inerrency of scripture.
Southeastern Baptist Theological (Wake Forest NC)is not far from where I live and I have heard the same said of it.
If calvinists took over that would not mean female preachers. (Source I am a Calvinist)
Matthew 24:22Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Matthew 24:24For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Matthew 24:31And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Mark 13:20Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.
Mark 13:22for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
Mark 13:27And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.
Luke 18:7now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?
Romans 8:33Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
Acts 4:28to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.
Romans 8:29For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
Romans 8:30and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
1 Corinthians 2:7but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;
Ephesians 1:5He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,
Ephesians 1:11also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,