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To: fishtank

RE: James White is a Baptist, as is the author of the article, but they disagree with one another on this issue -

White is a REFORMED BAPTIST. I wonder how it differs from the other Baptists.... (e.g. Southern Baptists)


5 posted on 05/17/2018 9:05:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s lots of Southern Baptists who hold to Reformed theology........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mohler

Richard Albert Mohler Jr. (born October 19, 1959), is an American historical theologian[1] and the ninth president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been described as “one of America’s most influential evangelicals”.[2]


6 posted on 05/17/2018 9:55:03 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A few years ago, a survey showed about a third of SBC churches as Calvinists. Numbers seem to vary fairly widely for the pastors; the Calvinistic pastors tend to be younger than the average SBC pastor. I do recall one study showing the percentage higher for pastors than for members.

A lot of the SBCers who identify as Reformed aren’t 5 pointers, and certainly a lot have never heard of the London Baptist Confession, much less subscribe to it. So the numbers are going to vary greatly depending on exactly how the questions are worded.

While all the SBC seminaries probably have some reformed baptists, Southern in Louisville is a magnet for them; Southwestern, New Orleans, and Southeastern much less so. I don’t know enough about Golden Gate to comment on it. (Just proved it to myself. I didn’t know that they had changed their name, sold their campus, and moved. So obviously, I don’t know anything about that one). Folks who have a Bible college education are, I suspect, less likely to identify as Calvinists.


13 posted on 05/19/2018 4:26:18 PM PDT by PAR35
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