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The Salvation of Infants: a theological essay by C.W. Koller

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 15:26
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Frequently, our Reformed-leaning Baptist brothers and sisters insist that the doctrine of imputed sin (i.e. “Original Sin”) as understood in the Augustinian-Calvinist theological trajectory is not only the biblical view, it is also the classic view among Southern Baptists. We’ve shown before that theologians of great stature among Southern Baptists have historically distanced themselves from Augustine on Original Sin. Nonetheless, many still accuse those of us who do not embrace Augustine’s theory of imputed Adamic guilt (based primarily upon Augustine’s skewed reading of Romans 5:12) of being “heretics” at worst and the “lessor” charge of “Semi-Pelagian” at best >>> The historical evidence demonstrates that many Southern Baptists vigorously rejected the idea of imputed sinful guilt from Adam; instead they interpreted Scripture as teaching we fallen human beings universally inherited a sinful nature from Adam but Adam’s sinful guilt was not imputed to us. In other words, there seemed to exist…



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