SOUTHERN BAPTIST PRESIDENT PROVES DENOMINATION HAS FULLY EMBRACED
SECULAR IDEOLOGY
SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/sbc-president-proves-denomination-has-fully-embraced-secular-ideology/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
BY Jeff Maples
In June, the Southern Baptist Convention officially adopted Critical Race Theory — an anti-Biblical worldview that treats every circumstance in society through the lens of racism — as a “useful tool” for analyzing racism in our churches and society. Though many conservatives tried to speak out against it, Resolution 9 was overwhelmingly supported by the messengers present at the convention.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) emerged as an offshoot of Critical Theory, a neo-Marxist philosophy that has its roots in the Frankfurt School and its methods are drawn from Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. CRT teaches that institutional racism exists within every structure of society and that these structures are intrinsically designed in such a manner as to protect and preserve “white supremacy” in our culture. Further, CRT does not rely on factual statistics or objective evidence to support the theory, rather it relies on anecdotal evidence and personal experience.
JD Greear is the current president of the Southern Baptist Convention — and no former president has pushed the denomination toward the full embrace of progressive secularism as has Greear. Greear has long been a proponent of “white privilege” theology, basically a fork of classic black liberation theology taught by James Cone. Further, Greear has embraced intersectionality — a method of victimology that combines “oppressed” groups of people for the purpose of standing against the “oppressor” — and has called on Christians to stand up for LGBTQ rights while insisting that sodomy is morally equivalent to other sins such as boasting or greed. While boasting the Southern Baptist church plants are becoming “less white,” Greear says it’s okay to vote for pro-abortion Democrats.
In a recent article published on his website titled Three Ways to Lay Down Your Privilege, Greear pleads with Christians to “lay down their privilege” for the minority.
Everyone who possesses power, in this world or God’s kingdom, possesses privilege. Those in the world use their privilege for their own benefit. Those of us in God’s family, however, have the privilege of laying down our power for the benefit of others.
Basically, Greear implies that the “straight, white, male” Church is wallowing in its bondage of protecting their own power. “My prayer for the church is that we would rejoice in the privilege of laying down power rather than wallowing in the bondage of protecting it.” Of course, there is literally nobody doing this. There is not a single person who is outspoken against the social justice infiltration in the Church who is “wallowing in bondage” to protect their own racially supreme power. It’s an asinine statement. The entire article is ludicrous and simply affirms how far left the denomination has gone.
(Publisher’s comment: One of our problems is, we have not seen the subject of “race” in a doctrinal context and have ignored it as pastors and theologians for fear of being tagged as racist. The word race, racist or racism is not found in the KJV Bible. And yet nothing worse can be said about a person today than to call them a “racist.” It is really an assault on the word of God, who according to the Apostle Paul has declared that God has divided the people of the world into Nations. In his sermon at Mars Hill in Athens he said, And (God) hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; But the world despises that message. Just as at the Tower of Babel they want all the world to be on “nation (race). So, they have made up a sin, a crime, called racism and have called it a “hate crime.” Worse even than any other including murder. It is also an attempt to brand the Jew as evil for trying to keep their nation pure and separate, therefore they are branded as, “racist”. But as happens so many times they have played on the ignorance of people because there is nothing wrong with the dictionary meaning of the word race. Webster’s on line dictionary gives the following definition: “The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob…”
We say we are KJV only but are ashamed to use KJV only words. We substitute “people groups” for the word “nation”, and “harlot” for “whore”, and “donkey” for “ass”. But we aren’t embarrassed to wear all kinds of undress see all clothing even to church, and watch all kinds of movies and TV, even in our own living rooms, with far worse language than this. Maybe we should reexamine what the Lord Jesus said when He warned at Mt 24:50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, Mt 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. I’ve been preaching for over seventy years and when I think of how soon I will be meeting my Lord, I shudder at the meaning of that word “hypocrite.” I trust that you do too.)
