No...it's the Bible that sets that truth out. Baptists are merely repeating what the Word of God says.
Oh, yah, right -- I'm sure it's there somewhere.
Here's a better solution. Forget about your favorite theological construct to overlay upon the Bible that just proves that your little group is right and everyone else is wrong. Just go get a Bible (preferably a good modern translation -- there are many) and read it for yourself.
I know. I know. How dangerous that would be with no priest or Calvinist commentator to tell you what to think or what the Gospel writer surely meant -- or what 'the church' has 'always' taught -- or what 'everyone' has 'always' understood. Just read it. [The whole New Testament mind you, not just your favorite half verse.] For yourself. (And try it with an open mind.) Just read it through. Then, if you magically come up with the same tired old construct or some doctrine of papal (or Calvinist commentator) infallability, so be it. But, by that time, perhaps everyone will have read it with an open mind for themselves.
What a concept!
BTW, I'm betting on the Gospel and Jesus Christ and against all the old constructs and 'church doctrines'.
No...it's the Bible that sets that truth out. Baptists are merely repeating what the Word of God says.
In fact it says exactly the opposite.
Luke 8:10-15
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.