I have been a practising Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me, as religious beliefs are to hundreds of millions of people around the world. So my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. - President Jimmy Carter
(Tim, w/thanks to Kamilla) Former President Jimmy Carter has been leaving the SBC for years, now. This is no news at all. He's not committed to the Word of God and belongs elsewhere, as he acknowledges here.
What is news is that the Southern Baptist Convention blames Eve for the Fall:
It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service.
It's a brave man who speaks up publicly for the right of women to enlist in the military, placing themselves as wives, daughters, and mothers in harm's way.
Then, we arrive at President Carter's statement about the SBC "claiming" Eve was created second after Adam...
This is a claim? Maybe our good practising Christian, Sunday school teacher, and deacon can enlighten us concerning the true order of the creation of Adam and his wife.
Next, President Carter accuses the SBC of blaming Eve for Original Sin.
The idea that even one single pastor of the SBC would blame Eve, rather than Adam, for Original Sin and the Fall is laughable. But then, when men oppose the structure God gave Adam and Eve in the perfection of the Garden, they must find some other explanation for the Church's teaching of authority and submission between the sexes. Smearing the church with the lie that she blames Eve for the Fall might work.
People who lack any knowledge of Scripture, church history, or the explicit statements actually made by the SBC, are as likely to fall for that whopper as any other.
To set the record straight, here's what Scripture actually says--and therefore, what all Christians for all time have believed--concerning the Fall:
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:22)
For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. (Romans 5:19)
The church does not blame Eve for Original Sin or the Fall. Ever.
Adam was responsible for the race. Not Eve.
