Did you read the 2003 statement? If not please do so. Very interesting in what the SBC said about what they were straying from...the authority of God’s Written Word. So the SBC was following a tradition of men, a later council admitted it and went to scriptural authority. Kind of like Pope John Paul II apologizing for the Crusades.
“Did you read the 2003 statement?”
Yes.
“So the SBC was following a tradition of men,”
Protestantism is a tradition of men.
“Kind of like Pope John Paul II apologizing for the Crusades.”
He never apologized for the crusades. He apologized for excesses committed by crusaders. John Paul II would never apologize for the crusades but many stupid people - especially grossly misinformed twits on the internet - always say he did. I don’t get it.
Myth 7: Pope John Paul II apologized for the Crusades.
This is an odd myth, given that the pope was so roundly criticized for failing to apologize directly for the Crusades when he asked forgiveness from all those that Christians had unjustly harmed. It is true that John Paul recently apologized to the Greeks for the Fourth Crusade’s sack of Constantinople in 1204. But the pope at the time, Innocent III, expressed similar regret. That, too, was a tragic misfire that Innocent had done everything he could to avoid. http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/tmadden_crusademyths_feb05.asp