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Killing er: "Now we are reevaluating and we're approaching everything with a humbler perspective and seeing God's hand working in Christ, but not necessarily as the incarnate God in our midst," Killinger said. "Now, that may be hard for you to hear depending on where you are coming from, but we can talk more about it.""

If religious bodies don't show concern for theological correctness (such as the deity of Christ) then who should? To this day the CBF, I feel sure, would not entertain a speaker or staffer who wasn't settled on that bit of Christian orthodoxy.

I am not taking up for Killinger, because I was not there to hear him in that particular year. I do know why he was invited. At the time he was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, VA, and was widely known as the most prominent thorn in Jerry Falwell's side. Indeed, he took up the religious liberty cause in local politics every time Falwell managed to get favorable zoning or other services denied to other religious applicants. His stature was because he was forcing a local community to be faithful to religious liberty on the local level.

You don't want me to pounce on the most extreme SBC heresy of the day, but I'm tempted every time I read dispensational premillennialists in SBC publications talking about things that remind me of what a lady once told me. She said she could prove that the Bible teaches suicide. I bit and she said, "It's in the Bible that Judas went out and hanged himself. The Bible also says, 'Go and do thou likewise.'"

He picked a top tier doctrine. Has nothing to do with not being a baptist. If it upset the Mods the it was no small doctrine. That episode was an embarrassment for which an apology was felt necessary.

ED: Tim, where do you get the idea that for William "there would be no circumstances in which you think a Baptist body should have a non-Baptist speak then" ?

I see nothing in William's comments about the Killenger's appearance at a CBF Assembly which suggest that "there would be no circumstances in which you think a Baptist body should have a non-Baptist speak"?

Imminent? Or immanent? They're quite distinct descrptors in describing God.

Keith, your view is heretical but a lot of your stuff is just for argument.

Still, I'd bet he has lines. Heck I'd bet you have. We all do. But I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy over all the tolerance shown here.