“Mark Chaves, a professor of sociology at Duke University.” Brilliant author.
Baptists are heroic, since they started preaching against slavery in 1830’s and helped Lincoln get elected. Since then Baptists have been riding on the glorious fumes of the past. Nowadays, it is time to face the facts. The doctrine of John Smyth (1570-1612) has one fatal flaw; his doctrine is not His doctrine. After all, Smyth’s doctrine is only 407 years old.
“The doctrine of John Smyth (1570-1612) has one fatal flaw...”
Ummm...that no one in the SBC gives a rat’s rear about John Smyth? For doctrine, we prefer the Bible. And the SBC was NOT on the forefront of preaching against slavery.