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The preamble of the original constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention describes the purpose of the SBC as “eliciting, combining, and directing the energies of the whole denomination in one sacred effort, for the propagation of the Gospel.” These words are not only historically significant; they convey the mission and purpose and distill the distinct facets of the Cooperative Program. One...
the capacity to choose between alternatives and freedom as the capacity to consistently choose the good or the righteous. One might have the former hut not necessarily the latter.29 Since Particular Baptists such as John Bunyan and Baptists clearly opposed to Arminian beliefs such as Isaac Backus have also been at the forefront of defending freedom of conscience, soul competency has not historically been just the notion that all persons have the capacity in themselves to respond to grace. Those who
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