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Note that the "Nashville Statement" was of conservative evangelical, not exclusively Southern Baptist origin, but the declaration of its inerrancy did come from Southern Baptists across the river in Arkansas.

While one might fairly charge them with a poor choice of words in using "without error," I think a charitable reading understands that they are simply saying that they agree with the declarations that the Nashville Statement makes about human sexuality.


Of course, probably none of the rest of us have ever claimed to agree with what someone else has written.

I think you're a bit too charitable. The reported quote was, "Arkansas Baptists went so far as to describe the Nashville Statement as “without error in its declarations based on biblical truths.”

The BFM famously uses "truth without mixture of error." The statement above claims an inerrant declaration. Or, do they mean that the declaration was inerrant only in its declarations that were based on biblical truths? Sounds rather like the mods of old.

It was dumb.

I don't mind agreeing that it was dumb/poorly expressed/whatever. But, William, do you really think Arkansas Baptists (SBC) believe the Nashville Statement is inerrant in the same sense as the Bible? That seems to be what Bob Allen is trying to imply.

Anyway, they're your people, not mine; I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.

My peeps sometimes do dumb things. Bob Allen didn't let this slide by...nor would I.

On this one, I have to agree with RVaughn in his reading of things. I see their statement as saying, In so far as what the Bible says, the Nashville Statement has not made any errors. I don't believe they are claiming inerrancy for the statement. I think people who don't like the Statement over-react so they can dramatize their disagreement.

So, Leland, you really think that Arkansas Southern Baptists mean to say that the Nashville Statement is just as inspired and inerrant as the Bible?

A red letter (no pun intended) day at Baptistlife.com. For once, I think we are all in agreement.

What is the old saying? "Miracles never cease."

This describes why most of the Baptists along the Appalachian Mountain chain have always declared, "No book but the Bible, no creed but Christ." In their declaration, Arkansas Baptists stepped in it, and it didn't smell good. Their words about human words are likely to haunt them.

For me, their statement calls into question the degree to which they mean anything more than "I agree with the Bible because the Bible agrees with me" when they apply those words to the inerrancy of the Bible itself.