Our friend Paul Chesser takes the declaration by some Southern Baptists to task in this American Spectator column. Paul notes that the Southern Baptists claim “adherence to Biblical inerrancy and authority,” but with this declaration they have “absolutely botched [their] interpretation about what man’s responsibility over the Earth is.”
Paul provides three examples of Biblical misapplication and conclude that the signers “reveal their ignorance in areas of science and economics1, and their cowardice in compromising their Biblical principles in the face of political pressure.”
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1. That was a key point in my Townhall article on the same subject ? especially the declaration’s contention that “address[ing] climate change” was prudent.
