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 percent 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 the 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 few 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.