"I'll start with Scripture, but I can continue if you wish...."
Listen, I'm looking forward to this conversation, but let's try an not post tomes at each other. There is no way I can coherently reply to an article such as you have posted - it's simply too long. For clarity sake, would you mind summarizing the point(s) you are trying to make with this article and then we can address them.
Congrats! You did pick the salient point. Any discussion we would have will eventually come back to the issue of authority.
Fair enough, but it will take long postings to make a complete point. Cheap shots are the zone of the misinformed - and the norm for attacks on any faith both on FR and in the media. I wish to avoid those cheap shots and make a complete case for my view that Baptist teachings on those topics are incorrect when viewed through the Scripture.