[af_vet_1981]

And if I need to choose between the integrity and scholarship of the folks who made the NASB and ESV translations, and the Internet posters editor-surveyor & af_vet_1981...well, guess who I think is better qualified?

I conclude from these comments that modern Baptists do not believe the same doctrine of Inerrancy of the Scriptures as their Independent Fundamental Baptist brethren. Given the doctrine of Sola Scriptura I think they have irreconcilable differences. Those who believe in the holy catholic apostolic church do not have this problem.

[Karl Spooner]

Those who believe in the holy catholic apostolic church do not have this problem.

I'd rather have the problem.

[MamaB]

Do y’all even know what Sola Scripture is? It is believing the Bible has everything in it to teach salvation and how to live our life afterwards. If you do not beleve that, you do not believe God’s word. That is why it is so easy to understand, that a child can be saved.

[CynicalBear]

>>Those who believe in the holy catholic apostolic church do not have this problem.<<

LOL As much good as it will do them. Catholics, Muslims, Mormons and many others who adhere to cultic beliefs for fear of recrimination from those cults can’t veer from what their leaders tell them to believe. That however isn’t what leads to eternal life.

[Mr Rogers]

“I conclude from these comments that modern Baptists do not believe the same doctrine of Inerrancy of the Scriptures as their Independent Fundamental Baptist brethren.”

Well, if they believe the KJV is the Inerrant Scripture...then no, the vast majority of Baptists think they are nuts.

If they believe the Catholic scholar Erasmus was the pinnacle of textual reconstruction, even ‘tho he uses the Vulgate to substitute when he did not have Greek texts, then most Baptists think they are nuts.

If they think “Thou shalt not kill” is one of the 10 Commandments, then they are nuts.

If someone exalts the traditions of man as ruling scripture, instead of scripture ruling traditions...then they are nuts. Sola Scriptura does not mean we believe in using bad Greek texts, or in deliberately mistranslating the Bible to support a political belief. It does mean that if we have to decide if infant baptism is valid, we look in the scriptures...and don’t find it. Instead, we find passages that make the idea of infant baptism ridiculous. And we reject priests offering a continuous sacrifice of Jesus in ‘the Eucharist’ because Jesus said do this in remembrance of me, not do this as part of a perpetual sacrifice of me.