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Why We Must Seek to Repudiate Resolution 9 in New Orleans in 2023

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 22, 2023 /

In 2019, the messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) adopted Resolution 9. It was passed based on the stated value of using critical race theory (CRT) and intersectionality (INT) as neutral “analytical tools.” The second Whereas of Resolution 9 states, “Critical race theory is a set of analytical tools that explain how race has…

Court Vindicates Dr. Paige Patterson’s Handling of Alleged Rape Case

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 18, 2023 /

In 2018, the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) Board of Trustees fired Dr. Paige Patterson, who was then serving as president of the seminary. The charges against Dr. Patterson significantly included the mishandling of two alleged abuse and rape charges by one female student in 2003 and one in 2015.[1] The latter happened at SWBTS…

The New Testament Reserves the Designation Pastor for Men

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 24, 2023 / Comments Off

The Baptist Faith and Message (BFM) says of the pastor’s office, “The office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.”[1] The meaning of the term pastor in the 2000 BFM is not in question, though some try to make it unclear. However, three of those who served on the 2000 BFM committee…

Welcome to America’s Alternative Universe: The Banishment of Objectivity

By Ronnie W. Rogers / March 27, 2023 / Comments Off

America continues to move further away from our foundational values of faith in God and the rule of objective law based upon objective facts. We are now being required more and more to live in a society where we must daily transition in and out of the universe of objective reality into an alternative universe…

The Catholic Augustine and His Novel Doctrine of Determinism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / March 14, 2023 / Comments Off

Many Calvinists are prone to refer to church history as though it started at the Reformation or drop back to the time of Augustine, thereby skipping all church history other than the Reformation. This distorted historical approach includes an attempt to co-opt Augustine from Catholicism in order to make him the Protestant forerunner to Calvin.…

Acts 2 and 4 Are Not Examples of Socialism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / February 27, 2023 / Comments Off

Acts 2:44–45 and 4:32–35 are often used to justify the claim that the Bible supports socialism. For example, Luke says, “And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need” (Acts 2:44–45).…

Faith Precedes Regeneration and Revelation Precedes Faith: John Chapters 6, 3, and Matthew 27:42

By Ronnie W. Rogers / January 30, 2023 /

Salvation begins with God revealing Himself to man. Man cannot find God unless He reveals Himself to man. God’s love for His creation is the reason there is a way for people to be saved from their just desert (John 3:16). Christ came into the world to save mankind, which means He had to pay…

Marxism in Our Public Education: For Real!

By Ronnie W. Rogers / October 17, 2022 / Comments Off

Marxist Paulo Freire is one of the most influential critical pedagogues. Critical theory, developed by Marxist Max Horkheimer, is the basis of critical pedagogy, which is the Marxist method for educating students in America’s public school system. Wherever you find critical theory in use, you have found Marxism. Accordingly, critical pedagogy is thoroughly Marxist and…

Homosexuality: The Sin Is the Act and Desire

By Ronnie W. Rogers / October 3, 2022 / Comments Off

Sometimes a homosexual or someone who claims to be “same-sex attracted” will, when they claim to be a Christian, say they refrain from the act, but they say little about their homosexual desires being an obstacle to following Christ. They believe their celibacy is all they need to be right with God and their homosexual…

Marxism and Critical Race Theory Have Taken Aim At Your Child and Your Church

By Ronnie W. Rogers / September 19, 2022 / Comments Off

Pedagogy is the study and theory of education. It establishes the methods educators use to teach our children. Critical pedagogy (CP) is prominent in public education. It is an educational theory and practice based on critical theory (CT). Critical theory is the social theoretical approach used by Marxism in evaluating and deconstructing capitalist societies. This…