This is your opportunity to affirm your agreement with our Southern Baptist confession of faith. Click the post title here -
AFFIRMATIONS and post your 'signature' there.
One, if you would like to describe or qualify your affirmation, please feel free to do so. Express your personal Baptist identity.
Two, be honest! If you have an issue regarding a portion of one of the articles, state it. If you have no issues, state that, too.
Three, make no comments on others' affirmations. This time you are allowed to be just about you. Any comments made about others, either positive or negative, will be removed.
Four, please comment only once in the AFFIRMATIONS section. Consider this to be like signing a petition or document in a survey. So, take some time and make yourself clear. On the other articles, feel free to weigh in with your perspective.
I fully agree with the BFM 2000 in all its articles.
I also believe that our BFM could be strengthened by…
Article VI – The Church including that both the offices, pastors and deacons, are limited to men as qualified by Scripture.
Article XVI – Peace and War would include a statement on just war with Scriptural support.
As it stands, there is nothing within the Baptist Faith and Message with which I disagree.
SCOTT GORDON
I agree with the Baptist Faith and Message.
I believe a strengthening could take place in Article XV – The Christian and the Social Order.
There is an excellent statement in that section that reads, “We should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death.” While I agree with the obvious intent of this statement, that we should oppose by all means possible the practice of abortion and euthanasia, some have suggested (apparently with a straight face) that it also means we should oppose capital punishment.
They make this outrageous claim even though Article XVII – Religious Liberty clearly states that civil governments are ordained by God, and even though the New Testament clearly allows for those civil governments to “bear the sword.”
So perhaps some clarity could be brought, to keep the clear meaning of this excellent statement from being disingenuously twisted.
I affirm it in its entirety and whole heartily without caveats.
i affirm it.
david worley
I affirm the BF&M 2000 with the following caveats:
Article I,II,III,IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,IX,X,XI,XII,XIII,XIV,XV,XVI,XVII,&XVIII.
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Seriously, I affirm this confession without caveats. I too would like to see it strengthened.
Article VI–The Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel;
It could be strengthened by this statement; The New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is visualized in an …
Blessings,
Tim
I affirm the BF&M without caveats. I do think that Article VII. The Lord’s Day could be strengthened by replacing the phrase “Activities on the Lord’s Day should be commensurate with the Christian’s conscience under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.” with the phrase “Activities on the Lord’s Day should be commensurate with the Christian’s submission to the dictates of Holy Scripture under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.”
Unanchored appeals to conscience, while not invalid, are weak. Even if people would differ as to what the Bible says about appropriate activities on the Lord’s Day, they ought to be able to agree that the dictates of the Bible, whatever they might be, constitute our rules for Christian practice.
I cannot believe Bart beat me to the punch. It’s a great example of how I affirm the document w/o caveats but wished it went farther.
His solution would be a good one. I affirm it without reservation.
Yes. I affirmed it in Orlando, I affirmed it again in Columbia at our state convention, and I affirmed it a third time at an annual associational meeting in Orangeburg. I affirm it again here!
Everybody sing (to the tune of the old children’s song “The B-I-B-L-E”):
“The Baptist Faith and Message, yes that’s the book for me.
I stand alone on the BFM, The Baptist Faith and Message!”
Sorry brothers, I cannot place my name in affirmation of anything written by men. I believe in the suffiency of Scripture. Sola Scriptura. No creed but Christ.
I agree with every word of the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message.
Article VIII. The Lord’s Day . . .
This article has been DUMBED-DOWN! due to the NASCAR & NFL fans on the revision committee!
I prefer the ORIGINAL definition in the Absracts, 1925, & 1963:
“The Lord’s Day is a Christian institution for regular observance, and should be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private, resting from worldly employments and amusements, works of necessity and mercy only excepted.”
Annie Armstrong will agree with me . . . and also LOTTIE MOON!
resting from worldly employments and amusements every Lord’s Day,
chadwick, annie, & lottie
I affirm all accept for the seventh sentence of article III: “Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation.” Our inherited spiritual deadness and natural wickedness does indeed place us under condemnation, even when we are just blastocysts.
I do heartily agree to strengthening the document across the board. The original New Hampshire Confession of 1833 was far better than the BFAM, even while retaining some abiguity for wider acceptance.