Talk:Baptist Bible Fellowship International

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[edit] Questions

Can anyone explain this sentence: The Baptist Bible Fellowship International is a separatist fundamentalist organization formed in 1950 by members who separated from the World Baptist Fellowship. It is not a "accreditor" for institutions of higher learning according to the US Department of Education.[1]

Religious denominations are not generally charged with "accrediting" academic institutions in the USA. Perhaps this was meant to say they do not have an accredited college or seminary? Also I changed the reference to Falwell as labeling the SBC "less conservative" as opposed to "more liberal", both labels have problematic POV issues, but neither church is commonly considered "liberal" in the common sense of the word jme66.72.215.225 14:33, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I was going to ask this same question. BBFI doesn't claim to be an "accreditor" for institutions of higher learning. It has a list of "approved" colleges, but that is simply a "these people line up with our beliefs" list. Since nobody has followed up with this question since August 4th, I am going to remove this statement. If anybody knows a good reason to have this in, please post the reason here before you reinsert the statement. Mgroop 18:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

It must be noted that being an "approver" isn't the same as being an "accreditor." We dont want readers to confuse the two drastically different terms. Arbusto 07:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I still can't say I am convinced. However with the wording change you added, it at least makes sense why that statement is in there now. Good work. Mgroop 15:49, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jerry Falwell Trivia

I did a little (very little) research on this. David Cloud claims Jerry Falwell's Church is affiliated with SBC and BBFI. [1] In a brief Bio, americanpresbyterianchurch.org says he went to Baptist Bible College[2], which is a BBFI college [3]. Also rapidnet.com makes it clear he has strong ties with the Southern Baptist Convention (as well as several other things), but it never says it is a Southern Baptist Church.[4] sbcv.org lists Thomas Road Baptist Church as one of its members.[5] Also the wiki entry for Jerry Falwell and Thomas Road Baptist Church say that he was part of BBFI, but now strictly SBC. Mgroop 22:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Conclusion, I never saw anything that strictly said he was BBFI, but it can be inferred from the fact that he graduated from Baptist Bible College in Springfield Missouri. Mgroop 23:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)