What exactly is a 'Biblicist'?

[David Flick]

[John Sneed]

[Wade Burleson]

[Joshua Villines]

[bobfrgsn]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Hal Eaton]

[Norm]

Wade: ... Finally, I respect any person who disagrees with me and bases his views on the Bible. Not only do I respect him, I will fellowship and cooperate with them and call him a brother....

The questions remains not what you will call him, but how you will treat him. Will you, Wade, treat him as a brother?

[Wade Burleson]

[Norm]

Wade: ... Finally, I respect any person who disagrees with me and bases his views on the Bible. Not only do I respect him, I will fellowship and cooperate with them and call him a brother....

The questions remains not what you will call him, but how you will treat him. Will you, Wade, treat him as a brother?

Wade: Absolutely I will treat him as a brother Norm.

Then you will advocate for non-inerrantist SBC brothers to be placed in positions of leadership (e.g., boards and commissions) within the SBC?

[Wade Burleson]

[Haruo]

[Norm]

[Joshua Villines]

[David Flick]

[Wade Burleson]

[David Flick]

[T. D. Webb]

[Hal Eaton]

Oldad iterates--and reiterates--again and again:

The continuing discussion concerning the meaning of words will go on forever.

An ex-Roman Catholic priest fell in love with one word of the Good Book, namely, the "elect." Without knowing just what the original writer meant by it, or even what God meant by it (if that's the criteria for definition), we argue endlessly today about Calvinism. Then we call in the Chicago Statement, a rather meaningless combination of words unknown to the average layperson, SBCite, or most any Christian, as definitive of "what we (must) believe." Then we throw in the BF&M, in its various manifestations (and possible further future revisions) as a necessity for fellowship, inclusion, predominance or hegemony in the club. Historically, we have ordained creed after creed, confession after confession, statement after statement, manifesto after manifesto, covenant after covenant, in an attempt to finalize Ultimate Truth.

The quest for certainty, which is the mainstay of almost every sermon from our "sacred desks," suffers from our lack of a determinant, explicit philosophy of language. Absent that, we flounder in our demands for perfection and unanimity from all participants.

In a word:

Opinion rules. TIC, of course. (See below.)

I must reference once again a cartoon buried deep within my files (perhaps I should commission a re-draw of it). It shows a fellow shouting, "I'm right! I'm right! I'm right! I'm (gurgle, gurgle, gurgle)" as he disappears down the toilet.

[Joshua Villines]

[Wade Burleson]

[Norm]

Wade: ... I too bristle when others use the word 'inerrant' as a club.

You obviously, then, Wade, have little self-awareness. You have taken to this club in the past and used it, and continue to use it by denying non-inrerantists a place at the table.

[Jonathan]

[Norm]

[Hal Eaton]