Good or bad? Southern Baptists withdrawal from public education.?

Question

Even though their convention defeated the measure, what do you think of the idea they proposed to withdraw their kids from public education? Some say it would be a boon to the science curriculum in public schools.

Julia: I hope there weren't any Jewish or Hindu kids in your band. It'd be pretty insulting to ask them to degrade their own religion by participating in yours. Would you like to sing the praises of Vishnu?

Captain church: Thanks for the clarification re water. I suppose if Jesus had died in water Catholics would have to wear ice-cubes, or little water-filled vials.

Mr. Potato Head:
Most Christians I know have no problem at all with the concept of separation of church and state. A desire for theocracy does not define Christianity.

Answer 1

a angel said the south will never rise again.

thus cut them off as an org.

Answer 2

Water baptism is NOT for Christians who have the indwelling Holy Spirit. It is the opposite of Faith, of pleasing the LORD GOD Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 1:17...Paul is talking about his general commission here ["do as I do"], not any "gift" or "ritual practice" of the NEW Body of Christ, which didn't exist in Acts 2...that was the "Kingdom church" (Only Jews were there, still being offered the kingdom by the resurrected Christ), not the "Body of Christ church" {There was in those days the overlapping of the old & new covenants, which causes a lot of bad doctrine now}.
The Body of Christ Church didn't start until Saul became the Apostle Paul (years after the "Pentecost" of Acts 2)!
Water baptism is a deception from Satan to keep real Christians powerless spectators & not cause him any trouble...like the powerless Christians in the USA today (We are now THE largest mission field...odd, huh?).
The CROSS is the symbol of "death & burial & resurrection", not water baptism; if you substitute anything for the cross, you lose the power of the cross. Paul wrote (God thru Paul) "Everything I do (any H.S. christian, too) I do by the power of the cross".
[[Every time the word "baptize" is used in scripture, it means "to be identified with"; it often does NOT mean water]]
Having ANYTHING to do with water baptism makes a real christian almost totally ineffective.
Christ did not die in water, but on the cross, and it is the resurrection power of the cross that gives us our "power" (Christians these last 2,000 years were miraculously with him on the cross when He died, was entombed & rose from death).

Water baptism was an O.T. Jewish religious ceremony for the cleansing of sin...we have Christ's blood now to cleanse us from sin. Water baptism was under the Jewish religious "law", and scripture says that we are "no longer under the law, but under Grace"...it even says that we are "free from the law", because Christ completed the "law".
In 1 Corinthians 12:13 scripture says that Christians are baptized ("identified") by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, and in Ephesians 4:5 that there is "one baptism"....one, not two---there is spirit-baptism that gets us saved & indwelled; if there was water baptism as well, Eph. 4:5 would say 'two baptisms', but it does not....just "one baptism". You can SEE water baptism, and Christians are to walk by "Faith, not sight" [Hebrews 11:1 "Faith is the conviction of what we hope for and the evidence of things NOT SEEN"].
The Holy Spirit is invisible, so everything of the Holy Spirit in a Christian's life is to be invisible as well, spiritually discerned.
We live in times prophesied about where people "will not stand sound doctrine, just wanting their ears tickled...hearing only what they want to hear" (to avoid sacrifice & persecution & enjoy material pursuits), but the above rebuke to the fatal practice of water baptism IS sound doctrine of the Body of Christ!
My best to you!
The Keeper of the Flame

Answer 3

There already are lots of Christians -- Baptist, Catholic, and so on -- who do not send their kids to public schools.

My mother wanted to send me to a Catholic school but she couldn't afford it, so I went to public schools. But it was okay, because when I was in school, kids could still say "God bless you" when someone sneezed without being disciplined for supposedly violating the Constitution and trying to force their religion on people.

And my high school's band and choir put on CHRISTMAS concerts -- not "winter concerts," not "holiday concerts," but Christmas concerts.

Answer 4

The Public wants a NO God No prayer system. Let them have it.

Take ALL Christian kids out of Public schools. :)

It's Christian parents that are keeping public schools together now. I say ban public schools. They can have it. They sowed it..They can reap it. :)

Answer 5

Good riddance.