J. M. Frost on Inerrancy

                                                                                                                                                                  Vol. VI, No. 9, December 1993

This is another brief presentation of statements from our Baptist forebears setting forth their views of Scripture and other vital questions facing Southern Baptists today. This passage is from J. M. Frost, the first head of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board (his title was Corresponding Secretary). The selection appears in his book, Baptist: Why and Why Not, published by the Sunday School Board in 1900.

"We accept the Scriptures as an all-sufficient rule of faith and practice, and insist upon the absolute inerrancy and sole authority of the Word of God. We recognize at this point no room for division, either of practice or belief, or even sentiment. More and more we must come to feel as the deepest and mightiest power of our conviction that a "thus saith the Lord" is the end of all controversy." [Emphasis added.]