Lasserre Bradley Jr Now Affiliating with the Progressives, and Mixing with the Southern Baptist Founders Movement
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The Southern Baptists are Wondering if Bradley Hopes to Take over Their Seminary
At Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:29:58 PM, Bob L. Ross said... IS HARDSHELL BRADLEY COURTING SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEMINARY?America's most well-known Hardshell preacher may be sizing up the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for extending his opposition to Creedal Calvinism on the Gospel in relation to the New Birth.
I have a report confirmed by an "ear witness" that Bradley, a very well-to-do Hardshell preacher who is also in real estate business, has visited the Chapel at Southern Seminary and "fellowshipped" with some of the Faculty there. I have written to Dr. R. Albert Mohler and Dr. Tom Nettles, inquiring about the significance of Bradley's visit, but have no had a reply from either of them.
My first article on "Hardshellism" gives some detail about Bradley's apostasy from Creedal Calvinism into the Hybrid Calvinism of the Hardshells in the late 1950s. I first covered the apostasy of Bradley in some articles I published in a weekly Baptist paper which I once edited, and my article in the November, 1958 issue gives an extensive record of it.
Bradley's primary doctrine is the same as the current crop of Hybrid Calvinists -- namely, "born again before faith," or "regeneration precedes faith." This is the same "direct operation" palabber taught by the pedo-regenerationist theologians Shedd, Berkhof, and R. C. Sproul, and other preachers such as James White, Scott Morgan of the Founders, Gene Bridges, Tom Schreiner of the Southern Seminary, and others who advocate "Reformed" theology according to the Berkhof theology book.
None of them has given evidence that they believe that the Word of God is an instrumentality in the "quickening" work of the Spirit in regeneration or the New Birth, contrary to the Creedal Calvinism of all the Calvinistic Confessions of Faith.
Bradley has his own "preachers school" wherein young preachers are taught how NOT to preach the Gospel to the unregenerate as a necessary "means" in the New Birth, contrary to Chapter 10 of the 1689 London Confession of Faith, which Bradley and all Hardshells reject.
Bradley has spent most of the last half century of his life preaching against the Gospel as a necessary means in the New Birth, both on radio and at thousands of "appointments" at Hardshell churches and other meetings all across the United States.
Since Bradley is in real estate, and reportedly is a rich man, it leads one to wonder if he may be interested in some real estate located on Seminary Drive in Louisville, Kentucky. We can only speculate as to why he is patronizing and courting the Seminary, and I am anxious to hear from Dr. Mohler and Dr. Nettles about this.
Do you suppose he may envision moving his own preachers' school to Louisville, similar to what Lexington Baptist College did a few years ago, which is now called by the name of "Boyce"?
I am anxious to hear what Mohler and Nettles have to say about the anti-Gospel Bradley. -- Bob L. Ross
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