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Bob Rogers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0shared a link. Mississippi Baptists, Darwin\u2019s theory and a confession of faith | Bob Rogers<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

September\u00a07\u00a0at\u00a09:39\u00a0PM<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0How Mississippi Baptists were directly involved in the debate over evolution that led Southern Baptists to adopt their first confession of faith: #MSBaptistHistory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mississippi Baptists, Darwin\u2019s theory and a confession of\u00a0faith
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Copyright by Robert C. Rogers and the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board.<\/em>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The hottest topic among Baptists in the 1920s was alarm over the teaching of Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution; this concern resulted in the adoption, in 1925, of the very first confession of faith of the Southern Baptist Convention. Mississippi Baptists were directly involved in these events.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The controversy heated up in 1921 when J. Frank Norris, the outspoken conservative pastor of First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas, accused Baylor University of supporting Darwinism. Mississippi Baptists expressed concern over the teaching of the theory of evolution as early as 1922. On October 24, 1922, the Simpson County Baptist Association appealed to the State Convention to appoint a committee \u201cto investigate the character of text-books used in the free schools and colleges of our state\u2026 especially if in these schools any teaching is discovered that contradicts the unmistakable teachings of the Word of God.\u201d The State Convention president appointed a committee made up of Baptist educators, to investigate the matter. The committee failed to report in 1923, but that year, Mississippi Baptist evangelist Thomas T. Martin published an anti-evolution book entitled\u00a0Hell and the High Schools: Christ or Evolution, Which?\u00a0<\/em>Martin criticized the educational elite, \u201ca lot of high brows supported by your taxes,\u201d and called on parents to take control of their children\u2019s education.1<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 1924, J. W. Provine asked that the committee be relieved of its responsibility, \u201csince the Committee is composed of those connected with the schools.\u201d The Committee on Committees appointed a new committee at the 1924 State Convention, which reported a resolution the very next day, decrying that public school textbooks \u201calmost universally teach Evolution,\u201d and saying \u201cthe teaching of this hypothesis is both a perversion of science and a violation of the religious freedom of our people.\u201d The resolution protested the use of tax dollars to oppose Christian doctrine, warned schools not to employ books or teachers that taught evolution, and petitioned the legislature of Mississippi to instruct the Text Book Commission \u201cto adopt no books for use in our schools that teach the unproven hypothesis of Evolution.\u201d2<\/sup>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 1925, the state superintendent of schools responded by banning the teaching of evolution in the state\u2019s classrooms, although the Mississippi legislature rejected a law against teaching evolution. However, Tennessee did pass an anti-evolution law in 1925, which sparked a controversy that was literally heard around the nation. John Scopes, a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was put on trial for violating the law. The famous lawyer Clarence Darrow defended Scopes, and the prosecution was led by William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic nominee for president. The Scopes \u201cMonkey Trial,\u201d as it was nicknamed, turned into a media circus, as it was aired live on the radio and heard by millions. The following year, Mississippi also passed a law against teaching evolution. The American Civil Liberties Union offered to represent any teacher willing to challenge the Mississippi bill in the courts, but no one took them up on the offer.3<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was in this environment that the Southern Baptist Convention adopted its very first doctrinal statement in 1925. Although local churches and associations had published statements of faith for years, larger Baptist organizations had resisted doing so, believing their only creed should be the Bible. In response to concerns raised by J. Frank Norris and others about liberalism, particularly evolution, Baptists began discussing the possibility of having an official statement of faith. This feeling was strong in Mississippi, as in 1924, Mississippi Baptists adopted a resolution that requested that the trustees and faculties of Mississippi Baptist schools prepare a statement of beliefs to which each teacher would be required to subscribe. Similar discussions were happening in other states and at the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1924, the Southern Baptist Convention rejected a call to make a doctrinal statement binding, but it did elect a committee to write a confession of faith, chaired by SBC president and Mississippi native, E. Y. Mullins. With the national attention of the Scopes trial, Southern Baptists were ready to adopt the Baptist Faith and Message, a statement of faith recommended by Mullins\u2019s committee in 1925.4<\/sup>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mullins chose to model the Baptist Faith and Message after the New Hampshire Confession of Faith, which modified some of the strong Calvinist language of other Baptist confessions. Regarding God\u2019s work of grace, the new faith statement said, \u201cElection is the gracious purpose of God, according to which he regenerates, sanctifies, and saves sinners. It is perfectly consistent with the free agency of man\u2026\u201d Instead of saying that Baptists were the only true church, as Landmark Baptists would have it, it simply said, \u201cA church of Christ is a congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel\u2026\u201d While the statement did not mention evolution, it affirmed that \u201cMan was created by the special act of God, as recorded in Genesis.\u201d The next year, in 1926, George W. McDaniel explicitly stated in his presidential address that Southern Baptists rejected evolution. A resolution was adopted making this \u201cMcDaniel Statement\u201d binding on all those working for Southern Baptist institutions. Likewise, in November 1926 the Mississippi Baptist Convention adopted a statement of faith that all college faculty were required to sign. In the first sentence, it affirmed belief in \u201cGod the creator of all things.\u201d5<\/sup>
SOURCES:
1<\/sup>\u00a0O. S. Hawkins,\u00a0In the Name of God: The Colliding Lives, Legends, and Legacies of J. Frank Norris and George W. Truett<\/em>\u00a0(Nashville: B & H Academic, 2021), 95;\u00a0Minutes<\/em>, Mississippi Baptist Convention, 1922, 28; Randy J. Sparks,\u00a0Religion in Mississippi<\/em>\u00a0(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001), 182.
2<\/sup>\u00a0Minutes<\/em>, Mississippi Baptist Convention,1924, 20, 26-28.
3<\/sup>\u00a0Sparks, 182; Thomas S. Kidd,\u00a0American History<\/em>, vol. 2 (Nashville: B & H Academic, 2019), 130-131.
4<\/sup>\u00a0Jesse C. Fletcher,\u00a0The Southern Baptist Convention: A Sesquicentennial History<\/em>\u00a0(Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1994), 141-142; Robert A. Baker,\u00a0The Southern Baptist Convention and Its People, 1607-1972<\/em>\u00a0(Nashville: Broadman Press, 1974), 398-399;\u00a0Minutes<\/em>, Mississippi Baptist Convention, 1924, 28.
5<\/sup>\u00a0Fletcher, 142-143; Baker, 398-399;\u00a0Annual<\/em>, Southern Baptist Convention, 1925, 72-73,\u00a0Minutes<\/em>, Mississippi Baptist Convention, 1926, 21-22. https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/198319700226657\/user\/1350975556<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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