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...president of the nation's biggest Protestant group, the 13.2 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, Texas Pastor Jimmy Allen promoted a gargantuan vision of reaching the entire globe for Christ by A.D. 2000. So overwhelming is that task, said he, that "we don't have time nor need to debate the authority and accuracy of the Bible." But at this month's Houston convention, where tempers were as hot as the fiery furnace, the Baptists elected as Allen's successor a man who could not disagree more...
...Adrian Rogers, 48, pastor of an 11,000-member Memphis church and uncompromising champion of biblical "inerrancy." The term means that the Bible's every word was God-inspired, so that as originally written the books were error-free in every detail. The standard summary of Southern Baptist verities, the 1925 "Baptist Faith and Message," declares that the Bible "has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter...
Even so, various Southern Baptist seminary professors have criticized the inerrancy theory and entertained the possibility that, for example, Adam and Eve might be symbols for primordial mankind rather than the first human beings...
...inerrancy militants organized the Baptist Faith and Message Fellowship to turn things around. Adrian Rogers was the group's most prominent founding father and served on its board until last month. Besides that, his Memphis church gives $36,000 a year to the adjacent Mid-America Baptist Seminary, established by those who think the six official Southern Baptist seminaries are soft on Scripture...
...family, the community, the Lord. Southerland's account is lyrical and as unabashedly emotional as old-time religion. There is, for example, the author's description of a "testimonial" by the Reverend Brother Daniel A. Torch, given one hot August Sunday at Brooklyn's First Baptist Church: "The South's heat soft in the body of his song . . . His voice wide as the sun, filled with pain. Crying for his dead brother...