[xJones]

The original statement defined the group's purpose as "helping churches promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ." That statement was revised at the group's annual meeting to read "help churches fulfill their God-given mission."

i supppose it would be useless to point out that without the Gospel of Jesus Christ there would be no Christianity. And what "God-given" mission will they promote? Will it be the cause of homosexuality like the Episcopalians are now experiencing?

[HighlyOpinionated]

WAR EAGLE.

(Auburn First Baptist is in Auburn, Alabama, as is Auburn University.)

We have 300 Baptist churches in a county with 17,000 people. We also have 30 Methodist Churches, 2 Presbyterian Churches, one Lutheran, one Catholic, one Unitarian, one Assembly of God, one Church of God, maybe two dozen non-denominational churches and somewhere there's a Jehovah's Witness group meeting.

So which church do you think is doing to most to meet the needs of the poor?

[PetroniusMaximus]

It is my understanding that the CBF is slowly going liberal.

[Frumanchu]

A recurring source of contention has been Jesus himself. The famous creedal battles of the fourth century pitched those who believed in Jesus' absolute humanity over against those who asserted his absolute deity. The compromise, that Jesus was both fully human and fully God, allowed both sides to claim victory but also left the matter mostly unresolved.

Umm...that's not accurate. The councils did not settle on a compromise between two schools of thought. They clarified and more clearly delineated what was already accepted as orthodoxy in the church defending it against both those who argued Christ's humanity to the exclusion of His divinity and vice versa.

[siunevada]

The famous creedal battles of the fourth century pitched those who believed in Jesus' absolute humanity over against those who asserted his absolute deity. The compromise, that Jesus was both fully human and fully God, allowed both sides to claim victory but also left the matter mostly unresolved.

Oy vey! Two heresies compromise and call it the truth? That doesn't sound right.

[A.J.Armitage]

The famous creedal battles of the fourth century pitched those who believed in Jesus' absolute humanity over against those who asserted his absolute deity. The compromise, that Jesus was both fully human and fully God, allowed both sides to claim victory but also left the matter mostly unresolved.

This isn't shocking. But in light of it, this is:

James L. Evans is pastor of Auburn First Baptist Church.

He's a pastor. A pastor thinks orthodox Christology is merely a compromise. Has he ever read the Gospels? The Epistles? And he doesn't even get the heresies right: the Docetists and Ebionites were around in the late First Century; the Fourth Century guys were Arians, who were different.