Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Matthews, North Carolina and former head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, is disputing the charge that traditionalists simply do not understand Reformed theology.
"The underlying assumption there is that if we understood it, we would be Calvinists," Land said in a recent phone interview with The Christian Post. "And the fact that we're not Calvinists is our fault because we don't understand it."
The Calvinism, or Reformed theology, debate is over the roles of God's sovereignty and human free will in determining who will accept God's saving grace and follow Christ as their lord and savior. Most Southern Baptists lie somewhere between the extremes of that spectrum.
In a recent CP interview, James Forbis, a millennial Calvinist currently enrolled at The Southern Baptist Theological...
