Well done good and faithful slave. Share your master's joy. That's what Greg Mott hopes God
will say to him one day. Greg pastors First Baptist Church in Houston, which is affiliated
with the Southern Baptist Convention, and he once called out the 2011 edition of the NIV for using
the word "servant." In fact, many SBC pastors have denounced the NIV for its gender neutrality, but
also, more specifically, because of its usage of the word "servant." They prefer "slaves" in their
Bible. Now I'm not saying they want actual slaves in their backyard. I mean, what church denomination
would actually fight for the right to have black people that they own as property picking cotton
in their backyard? Oh wait, that's why the Southern Baptist Convention exists! They split
from their Northern Baptist brethren so that their slave-owning missionaries can get paid.
That's kind of awkward. The King James Bible uses the word "slave" two times, yet the Holman
Christian Standard Bible of the SBC uses the word "slave" 314 times. But don't worry, that's only a
15,000% increase. Now in all fairness to the Southern Baptist Convention, they did apologize
for their racist roots in 1995, which means that it only took them about 154 years to figure out
that it was wrong. Additionally, the official doctrinal statement of the SBC states that in
order to be saved, you have to genuinely turn from your sins. Not just be willing, not trying,
you have to genuinely stop sinning. My thought is, did the SBC genuinely turn from their roots of
glorifying slavery? Consider that only 16 years after their apology, they wanted more slaves
in their Bible. If Joe Biden claims the Georgia voter ID law makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle,
then what would that make this? Jim pterodactyl? Wait a minute, does that mean that they aren't
even saved themselves? I mean, if you have to genuinely stop sinning to be saved, is anyone
saved? Perhaps that's why the Southern Baptist Bible also says in Matthew chapter 7, "How narrow
is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life." And if you find it, if you're confused
and thought that salvation was easy, free, and not about slavery, perhaps you've been reading
the King James Bible, and if not, you need to get the Baptist bias.