Did Paige Patterson tell all Calvinists to leave the SBC?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

Baptist, Atonement, Reformed, Bible, Religion & Spirituality, Calvinism, Biblical, Arminianism, Calvin, Christianity, Christian

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🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has received some unfair criticism over the last several days due to some comments he made in chapel about Calvinists. Some have gone so far as to suggest Dr. Patterson wants all Calvinists to leave the SBC, but this is simply not true.

Listen to these clips of Dr. Patterson presented by Dr. Leighton Flowers in there appropriate context in order to properly understand the intention.

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0:00.0	It's time for the Soteriology 101 podcast, where God is most glorified by his love and provision for all people.
0:09.3	Welcome your host.
0:10.7	The director of apologetics for Texas Baptists, an adjunct professor of theology, and a local teaching pastor.
0:17.4	Dr. Layton Flowers.
0:24.6	And I wanted to comment on some of the backlash from some comments that Dr. Page Patterson
0:32.6	made at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary following the sermon of Dr. Rick Patrick,
0:39.3	who preached on Salvation, sociology. And of course, as a Southern Baptist traditionalist,
0:46.4	he promoted traditionalism and spoke against, to some degree, Calvinistic leanings, and he also, within that context,
0:58.0	really pushed people to begin to realize that when you adopt a more reformed perspective,
1:05.7	then sometimes churches become more open to other reformed traditions.
1:11.6	For example, you have infant baptism within the reform tradition, or at least not, you know, not really
1:20.6	defending the concept of even immersion baptism and those kinds of things.
1:23.6	We have record of some churches that have been historically Southern Baptist
1:28.1	churches, which are now accepting members that were not baptized by immersion, for example.
1:35.8	And these are the kinds of things that sometimes happen whenever a denomination kind of lowers
1:42.3	its standard with regard to certain doctrinal issues and allows for, you know,
1:48.8	more ecumenical and various views. Now, I typically kind of side on the side of the autonomy of the
1:56.0	local church and the churches to be able to decide where they stand theologically.
2:07.4	And I have argued quite vehemently that each individual church, just as each individual person,
2:10.4	should have the freedom and the ability to read the scriptures for themselves and to discern for themselves what is right doctrine.
2:13.6	And that's, I think, a value we as Baptist hold very high is the religious liberty and the freedom to believe as we want to and not to have a hierarchical, you know, Vatican, Pope telling us what we should and shouldn't believe.
2:25.9	We are vehemently independent, sometimes maybe too much so. I don't know if it's always the best and most wise position, but it is,
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