Give up folks. Their worship is as hollow as their words. Repentance? What a joke. When it’s just talk the talk and no walk, then flee, run. I did a year ago and am SO glad.
I'm grateful they published that article. Whether or not the SBC listens, it matters.
“Real repentance would have meant actually following through,” concludes the editorial. “Baptists ought to know that.”
"Ought" being the operative word. I've not known one professing believer actually live it. They've learned well from their leaders. Talk is cheap. It means nothing. They don't hold themselves or each other accountable for anything. It's all 'forgiveness' and 'mercy' and 'turn the other cheek.' But they are merciless toward their victims.
Yup. I hold zero hope that they will follow through -- at least not in my lifetime. But I'm grateful when the media calls them out on their endless gaslighting. And you're absolutely right... they are "merciless toward their victims."
I have distant relatives on my dad's side who are Southern Baptists (I'm not a Baptist, I belong to the General Council of the Assemblies of God, the nation's second largest Pentecostal denomination after the Church of God in Christ). One of my grandfather's brothers was a Southern Baptist. I don't look at the Southern Baptist Convention the same way I used as a result of the sex abuse scandal. There will be judgment one day and God will not spare those who covered up the sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention unless there is repentance on the part of those leaders.
Give up folks. Their worship is as hollow as their words. Repentance? What a joke. When it’s just talk the talk and no walk, then flee, run. I did a year ago and am SO glad.
I'm grateful they published that article. Whether or not the SBC listens, it matters.
“Real repentance would have meant actually following through,” concludes the editorial. “Baptists ought to know that.”
"Ought" being the operative word. I've not known one professing believer actually live it. They've learned well from their leaders. Talk is cheap. It means nothing. They don't hold themselves or each other accountable for anything. It's all 'forgiveness' and 'mercy' and 'turn the other cheek.' But they are merciless toward their victims.
Yup. I hold zero hope that they will follow through -- at least not in my lifetime. But I'm grateful when the media calls them out on their endless gaslighting. And you're absolutely right... they are "merciless toward their victims."
But, of course they won't....'cuz "Jayzus says"...like they really, actually, believed one blessed word of the "bible" they wave around
I have distant relatives on my dad's side who are Southern Baptists (I'm not a Baptist, I belong to the General Council of the Assemblies of God, the nation's second largest Pentecostal denomination after the Church of God in Christ). One of my grandfather's brothers was a Southern Baptist. I don't look at the Southern Baptist Convention the same way I used as a result of the sex abuse scandal. There will be judgment one day and God will not spare those who covered up the sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention unless there is repentance on the part of those leaders.