tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777750410141759635.post7212641723594622085..comments2008-02-08T09:21:07.302-05:00Tony W. Cartledgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04890640429983888869noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777750410141759635.post-90041710792926478262008-02-07T09:31:00.000-05:002008-02-07T09:31:00.000-05:002008-02-07T09:31:00.000-05:00Many, many years ago the significance of 1 Corinthians 13:12 registered on me. Wow! If the apostle Paul could only see through the glass darkly, only know in part this side of eternity, I could hardly expect to know it all, to have all the right answers. That's an "unbiblical and unchristian wrench"? Huh? The arrogance of certain Baptists and other Christians who KNOW their interpretation is the right one is what gives us a bad name in the world. So I rejoiced when the New Baptist Covenant called us to gather in unity around those words of Jesus in Luke 4:18-19 (and, implicitly Matthew 25:31-46). Jesus was very clear. Those verses don't require much interpretation. These were the things that mattered to Jesus. They should matter to us.bubearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01945211368915004347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777750410141759635.post-52628788671547697582008-02-04T19:33:00.000-05:002008-02-04T19:33:00.000-05:002008-02-04T19:33:00.000-05:00In rebuttal to Mr. Clinton's anti-biblical and unchristian wrench on what Paul said about knowledge and love, I quote the words of an old Baptist song writer whose words reflect the real understanding of what it means to be a Baptist. Whereas this old Baptist wrote two centuries ago, he surely cannot be accused of writing in defense of 20th century fundamentalism or Republican partisan politics:<BR/><BR/>"How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in His excellent Word!<BR/><BR/>What more can He say than to you He hath said,you, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?" <BR/><BR/>Therein lies the unsurmountable chasm between authentic Baptists and modernist Baptists - the old acknowledges that the Lord has spoken, the new still keep hoping He will change His mind.<BR/><BR/>Mark Osgatharp<BR/>Wynne, ArkansasMark Osgatharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05585562082826860149noreply@blogger.com