Article Seven: The Sovereignty of God
"""We affirm God’s eternal knowledge of and sovereignty over every person’s salvation or condemnation.
We deny that God’s sovereignty and knowledge require Him to cause a person’s acceptance or rejection of faith in Christ."""
I find this to be one of the best parts of the statement.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think its the perfect refutaion of the notorious Calvinist idea that God personally and absolutely controls by Sovereignty the salvation or lack of it as per each human being, and that free will plays no part.
If God controlled by sovereignty the salvation of us all, then we would have no free will option, and then God would have no rightful basis to judge us for rejecting his Son.
After all, how can God truthfully condemn you for something he caused?
He can only legally and rightfully judge a Christ rejector if said rejector has the option of >free will< to reject The Christ.
Apparently the SBC were thinking this one through.
(way to go fellas).
K