Comments on: On Landmarkism, Campbellism, and Fundamentalism http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=42 Evangelical Resources for the 21st Century Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:40:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: GeneMBridges http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=42#comment-123 Tue, 23 May 2006 05:42:14 +0000 http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=42#comment-123 Also, if you notice, in the 3rd chapter, I've also hit on an antecedent to the KJVO movement you mention above, namely the Bible Society controversy of the early 19th century between Paedobaptists and Baptists. Also, if you notice, in the 3rd chapter, I’ve also hit on an antecedent to the KJVO movement you mention above, namely the Bible Society controversy of the early 19th century between Paedobaptists and Baptists.

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by: GeneMBridges http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=42#comment-122 Tue, 23 May 2006 05:30:46 +0000 http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=42#comment-122 Michael, Thanks for the link and your kind words. This is actually a published booklet now, but there are only 1000 copies, as the publication was donated by some folks at an SBC church in Oklahoma. I'll have 100 copies at the SBC in NC in June. 900 are being established, so I understand, to key figures in the SBC, 30 of which are the signatories of the Memphis Declaration. My booklet is specifically aimed at folks who don't know what Landmarkism is because they don't hail from places where it has gained much influence. For example, in NC, we have just a couple true Landmark churches, though I've heard some Baptist successionism taught here and there. If you or I say, "That sounds like Landmarkism" here in NC, folks are clueless. Ergo, when they hear or read a blogger say "The new baptism policies at the International Mission Board smack of Landmarkism" they are equally clueless. I was asked to write a popular, easy to read and understand history for that reason. To make it relevant, as you'll see in the last chapter, I'll tie it all together in the present day. Along the way, I'm also addressing other issues that are of current interest in the SBC. These include the actual definition of hyper-Calvinism in the wake of anti-Calvinist attacks accusing traditional Reformed Baptists and Amyraldians in the SBC of being hypers; Campbellism (easy believism and the use of sacramental "sinners prayers" in place of baptismal regeneration and a functionally Unitarian soteriology are fundamentally Campbellite ideas which have reared their heads in the highly revivalistic Baptist churches (it is functionally Unitarian to make God depend on man's faith for the Father to elect and to depend on man's faith to also regenerate--only the cross of the Son is in view, plus there is usually no doctrine of prevenient grace underwriting this, unlike traditional Arminianism, and the "wooing" is merely the preaching of the gospel itself, ergo, functional Unitarianism--add a sacramental prayer, aisle walking, etc. and you end up with sacramentalism; you've replaced baptism with these new rites, ergo Neo-Campbellitism); also principled dissent (there's a discussion on B.H. Carroll's behavior during the Whitsett Controversy coming up in the next chapter), and even, in the last chapter, the dishonest statisical reporting that goes on in the modern SBC. I even defend 5-Point Arminianism and the legitimacy of Free Will Baptist baptism, in view of the new IMB baptism policy, precisely because I'm a Five-Point Calvinist. I think the rejection of FWB baptism is hyper-Calvinistic in principle, and, in the last chapter, I document this. I'm glad you're enjoying the read. It should be complete by the end of the week. If you know any messengers going to the SBC in NC in June, please direct them to this URL and tell them to pay careful attention. God Bless! Gene Michael,

Thanks for the link and your kind words.
This is actually a published booklet now, but there are only 1000 copies, as the publication was donated by some folks at an SBC church in Oklahoma. I’ll have 100 copies at the SBC in NC in June. 900 are being established, so I understand, to key figures in the SBC, 30 of which are the signatories of the Memphis Declaration.

My booklet is specifically aimed at folks who don’t know what Landmarkism is because they don’t hail from places where it has gained much influence. For example, in NC, we have just a couple true Landmark churches, though I’ve heard some Baptist successionism taught here and there. If you or I say, “That sounds like Landmarkism” here in NC, folks are clueless. Ergo, when they hear or read a blogger say “The new baptism policies at the International Mission Board smack of Landmarkism” they are equally clueless. I was asked to write a popular, easy to read and understand history for that reason. To make it relevant, as you’ll see in the last chapter, I’ll tie it all together in the present day.

Along the way, I’m also addressing other issues that are of current interest in the SBC. These include the actual definition of hyper-Calvinism in the wake of anti-Calvinist attacks accusing traditional Reformed Baptists and Amyraldians in the SBC of being hypers; Campbellism (easy believism and the use of sacramental “sinners prayers” in place of baptismal regeneration and a functionally Unitarian soteriology are fundamentally Campbellite ideas which have reared their heads in the highly revivalistic Baptist churches (it is functionally Unitarian to make God depend on man’s faith for the Father to elect and to depend on man’s faith to also regenerate–only the cross of the Son is in view, plus there is usually no doctrine of prevenient grace underwriting this, unlike traditional Arminianism, and the “wooing” is merely the preaching of the gospel itself, ergo, functional Unitarianism–add a sacramental prayer, aisle walking, etc. and you end up with sacramentalism; you’ve replaced baptism with these new rites, ergo Neo-Campbellitism); also principled dissent (there’s a discussion on B.H. Carroll’s behavior during the Whitsett Controversy coming up in the next chapter), and even, in the last chapter, the dishonest statisical reporting that goes on in the modern SBC. I even defend 5-Point Arminianism and the legitimacy of Free Will Baptist baptism, in view of the new IMB baptism policy, precisely because I’m a Five-Point Calvinist. I think the rejection of FWB baptism is hyper-Calvinistic in principle, and, in the last chapter, I document this.

I’m glad you’re enjoying the read. It should be complete by the end of the week. If you know any messengers going to the SBC in NC in June, please direct them to this URL and tell them to pay careful attention.

God Bless!

Gene

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