Author Archives: Southern Baptists for Abolishing Abortion

Good Kings, High Places

by Clay Hall 1 Kings 15:11-13; 1 Kings 22:43; 2 Kings 12:2-3; 2 Kings 14:3-4; 2 Kings 15:3-4; 2 Kings 15:34-35 were recently used by Douglas Wilson in a Bibledingers YouTube channel debate with T Russell Hunter to argue that even if incremental support of heartbeat bills is a tactical mistake, it is not asContinue reading “Good Kings, High Places”

RESOLUTION ON EQUAL PROTECTION FOR PREBORN CHILDREN

To be presented at the Louisiana Baptist Convention Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov 14, 2023 Submitted to the Committee on Resolutions on October 26, 2023 Author: Brian Gunter, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Livingston, LA (1) WHEREAS, an individual human life begins at the moment God combines the reproductive cell of aContinue reading “RESOLUTION ON EQUAL PROTECTION FOR PREBORN CHILDREN”

Gravest Threat? Lowest Form of Dishonesty? Or Way of Christ?

This tweet represents the lowest point of dishonesty to which we can descend when we sell out to the crass tone of secular politics instead of following the way of Christ. So begins one of our Southern Baptist Convention president’s latest attacks on abolitionism. Here is the quote from SBC Pastor Dusty Deevers that sparkedContinue reading “Gravest Threat? Lowest Form of Dishonesty? Or Way of Christ?”

Consistently Inconsistent

From a concerned SBC pastor As an apologetics-minded Christ follower, the consistency in the Christian worldview brings me comfort and peace. After all, it is only the Christian worldview that can lay true claim to consistency. This short article is to call not only a brother in Christ (Bart Barber), but also the single mostContinue reading “Consistently Inconsistent”

Keeping up with the SBC Abortion Abolition Debate

Perhaps you are struggling to make heads or tails from the ongoing abortion debate in the Southern Baptist Convention. Here is a reference guide to catch you up to speed. In this post, we do our best to include all of the most relevant information, including a bit of back story. We plan to updateContinue reading “Keeping up with the SBC Abortion Abolition Debate”

Legal Culpability: Questioning the Pragmatic Opposition to the Criminalization of all Parties Guilty of Abortion

The messengers of the SBC meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, June 15-16, 2021 stated “unequivocally that abortion is murder, and that we reject any position that allows for any exceptions to the legal protection of our preborn neighbors, compromises God’s holy standard of justice, or promotes any God-hating partiality.” We also affirmed that “the murder ofContinue reading “Legal Culpability: Questioning the Pragmatic Opposition to the Criminalization of all Parties Guilty of Abortion”

Incremental Regulationism: Man’s Wisdom or True Wisdom?

Recently, Pro-Life apologist Scott Klusendorf leveled another attack at our Resolution on Abolishing Abortion. This attack was published on the Gospel Coalition website on September 23, 2021, titled Saving Some, Standing for All: A Defense of Pro-Life Incrementalism. We believe that Klusendorf’s article relies on man’s wisdom as a counterfeit to true biblical wisdom. WeContinue reading “Incremental Regulationism: Man’s Wisdom or True Wisdom?”

Heavy-hitting SBC Abortion Abolition Resolution Authors Respond to SBC Academics

On June 22nd, an article was published in Public Discourse, titled Why We Opposed an Anti-Abortion Resolution at the Southern Baptist Convention (hereafter referred to simply as “the article” or “the SBC Academics’ critique”). The article bears the names of seven authors, who are all academics in the Southern Baptist Convention and one former presidentContinue reading “Heavy-hitting SBC Abortion Abolition Resolution Authors Respond to SBC Academics”