11/21/2023 0 Comments Awaken conference 2014 paige pattersonOver the years, Barbour became good friends with several of these inmates and discovered that, when you got to know them, they could be right nice. In the Magnolia State, there is a long tradition of employing prison “trusties” as servants in the governor’s mansion. With just a few days remaining in his tenure as Mississippi governor, Barbour pardoned a handful of men who were serving time for heinous crimes of violence against defenseless women. When I heard that Paige Patterson had allowed a devout Palestinian Muslim to enroll at Southwestern Seminary, Haley Barbour sprang to mind. Conservative Muslims and conservative Baptists are both fighting a rearguard action against the anything-goes relativism of our postmodern world.īut I suspect there is more to it than that. Both camps worship a God who has authored an inerrant textbook. The Southern Baptist leaders of the twenty-first century do have much in common with the men who currently speak for Islam. Theology must not be so important, after all. Logical consistency links ideology to ideology, fundamentalism to fundamentalism. They oppose all abortions and gay marriage. They don’t drink or smoke or go with girls who do. Muslims embrace social values that apparently run deeper than theology. In a brilliant post, Marv Knox argues that Paige Patterson’s willingness to break his own rules proves that, in a country in the throes of culture war realignment, ideology now trumps theology. So why didn’t this simple biblical calculus apply to Ghassan Nagagreh? God doesn’t have to make sense because He is God. Call it arbitrary, capricious or illogical if you want. Klouda’s professorial chops, but God has reserved certain jobs for men regardless of native ability or a subjective sense of calling. Klouda was just as precious in God’s eyes as Billy Graham himself but she was a woman, so God couldn’t have her teaching men. Sheri Klouda was denied tenure at Paige Patterson’s Southwestern Seminary because she was the wrong gender. A quick glance at the faculty page at Southern Seminary in Louisville reveals that there are precisely zero woman on the faculty. If the Book says women can’t exercise authority over men, there will be no female pastors, simple as that.Īnd since women can’t teach men in SBC churches, they can’t teach in SBC seminaries either. If the Bible says only orthodox Christians are bound for glory, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and Muslims need not apply. Start with the a priori assumption that every jot and tittle of the Bible springs directly from the mind of God, and things get real simple. Make no mistake, fundamentalism has its advantages. Scientifically verifiable truth the kind you can take to the bank. Paige Patterson is committed to Truth with a capital “T”. Why is this a big deal? I doubt the seminaries affiliated with American Baptist or Cooperative Baptist congregations would have a problem enrolling Ghassan Nagagreh, a student who believes there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet.īut there are good reasons why even the Washington Post took notice when the president of Southwestern Seminary pulled strings on behalf of of a non-Christian student. Paige Patterson says it’s okay for a devout Muslim to study at Southwestern Theological Seminary.
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