Updating and Refining the 1689 Baptist Confession: Answers to Common Objections

It’s challenging to persuade people to modify their favored theological traditions even when the modifications suggested are intended to enhance the intelligibility and usefulness of the timeless truths embodied in those traditions. So I’d like to close this series on updating and refining the 1689 Baptist Confession by looking at some common objections that have been offered by some of my pastor friends and fellow believers. While I believe each of these objections is motivated by a concern to preserve biblical truth and the unity of the church, I haven’t found any of them sufficiently decisive or conclusive to preclude the framing of a new 21st century Reformed Baptist confession of faith upon the foundations of the old 1689. Read more