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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
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Subject: AP Bias or Error ?
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 17:37:25 EDT
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First, let me start with a few disclaimers...
I am not a Southern Baptist nor am I related to same
by blood or marriage.  I am not in Journalism (as should
be obvious :-) ).

Let me quote from an AP article out of Atlanta that had 
this headline in my local paper:

	MODERATE BAPTISTS MAY BE READY TO DUMP
		      STANLEY

"The election in Dallas next week will climax a fierce campaign
launched by moderates who claim Stanley, pastor of First Baptist
Church in Atlanta, is leading a conservative effort to force its
ideology - THAT EVERY WORD in the Bible must be interpreted LITER-
ALLY - on all Southern Baptist agencies and seminaries."

It would be nice if reporters assigned to write these articles
knew just a tad more about their subject matter.  I don't think
we're going to find many Baptists who upon reading Jesus' words
"I am the door..." or "I am the Bread..." are going to make the
non-figurative assumptions.

I think the doctrines that our "reporter" has messed up are
Literal Verbal Inspiration and Biblical Inerrancy.

This kind of thing happens on a regular basis from the press
but to paraphrase H.L. Mencken - when it is necessary to assign
a cause based on the choices of either malice or stupidity -
choose stupidity every time.

Would some Conservative and Moderate Southern Baptists please
comment ??


Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}