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The statement:

"a provision which caused considerable discussion and dissent both within and outside of the convention's member churches"

under "Women's Limitations In Marriage and Ministry" should have a reference. The footnote at the end of the sentence does not support the claims of the sentence.

I don't know if I'm really qualified, but I'm gonna take the graffiti celebrating Falwell's death off this page. Some real Wikipedian can review it later, I reckon. ;)

Of course it is "qualified by Scripture"!

It might not be in the Baptist Faith and Message itself, but a good percent of the congregation and everyone who went through seminary (which comprises the whole staff of the convention) have read this in the Bible: 1 Tim. 2:12 [NIV]: I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man... 1 Tim. 3:2-3 [NIV]: Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

This being said, someone please change that paragraph.63.215.29.113 03:17, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Affirmations section

I'm not sure just what the dickens this section is supposed to mean or say. --Orange Mike 16:48, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I updated links [1] and [2] for links to descriptions of the 2000 BFM and the different BFMs with Scripture references. Sh33na 18:39, 4 December 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sh33na (talk • contribs)

Ratification Statistics?

(I suspect) there is an unwritten reason why the 1925 BFM still appears on the SBC website. It has to do with appeasing a crowd that doesn't move forward or accept change readily. There are obviously/possibly SBC member churches that never ratified the 1963 version (and I attend a church "delinquent" in adopting the latest 1998 and 2000 changes). As an encyclopedic article, this important set of statistics is missing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MathInclined (talk • contribs) 00:15, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]