"You speak of yourself as a Christian, but imply that those who do not share your exact beliefs may not be Christians. I think it is important for the readers of this board to understand that your fundamentalist views of Christianity are not shared by a majority of the people of this country who called themselves Christian. Although your viewpoint should of course be respected, it is nonetheless that of a minority sect - the fundamentalist fraction of the Southern Baptists to be precise."
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Webster Groves...
Most certainly my views are a minority position even among those who profess to be Christians - I agree and have never suggested otherwise.
As I have stated a number of times, my goal is to explain what the Bible teaches if you both read it in a normal literal sense and accept it as being true in all respects. To that extent, I try to represent the beliefs of a large number of bible believing Christians whose views are little understood and often twisted by those who oppose biblically based Christianity.
I try to make a distinction between what is my personal opinion and what I believe represents the views of bible believing Christians in general, and I also try to make a distinction between those things where the Bible is not specific and when its teachings are very clear. To the extent of when I fail to make those distinctions clear, I apologise.
I consider myself a Christian, in the biblical sense, and not a Baptist (Southern or otherwise), fundamentalist, "christian rightist", or anything else. Many individual Southern Baptists would strongly disagree with what I believe, while many Methodists, Lutherans, Pentecostals or other denominations, and yes, even blacks, would agree. It has everything to do with one's view of the Bible and nothing to do with one's race or church affiliation.
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"You speak of yourself as a Christian, but imply that those who do not share your exact beliefs may not be Christians."
Whether someone agrees with me or not has absolutely zero to do with whether or not he is a Christian - I do not see how I could have been more clear on that point. I have many times here made very precise statements about the only thing that determines who is a Christian in the true biblical sense - a genuine belief God and in Jesus and acceptance of His substitutionary death in payment for my sins. I stand by those statements.
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