by pastormikejordan » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:16 pm
Tim, you ask: "I guess the question I would ask you is, within the ABC, where would you view the authority for enforcing doctrine?"
I am not saying that such a mechanism exists, only that it should (again, on an extremely limited level). As I said in my earlier post, what formerly was held together by convention may need to be explicitly spelled out now that those conventions are not shared in a broad, postmodern culture. IMO, the 1907 Northern Baptist Convention could not have understood or foreseen the threats to the authentic gospel (the core) that could come in the next century, and so opted for total autonomy not dreaming that the core could be challenged.
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