04/18/2024
I hoped to be added to the trustee-appointed faculty of Southern Baptist Theological Seminany in Louisville after teaching there as a Special Instructor during the 1968-69 academic year. Had that happened, I would have been required to sign the Abstract of Principles that included then and now this section:
V. Election Election is God’s eternal choice of some persons unto everlasting life-not because of foreseen merit in them, but of His mere mercy in Christ-in consequence of which choice they are called, justified and glorified.
Every trustee-appointed faculty member must "swear" to that article of faith. Is it any wonder that so-called "Christian nationalism" is on the rise?