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Really? Either you are woefully naive or you have some silly idea that the majority of Baptists reside at Dallas Theological Seminary. Are you not aware that within the Southern Baptist Convention alone, Calvinists are a very small minority and they are typically despised? The OVERWHELMING majority of Baptists throughout the world are semi-Pelagians or worse. Ask any of the African pastors who are members here about the spiritual condition and theological position of most of the churches in Africa. Calvinists are a very small minority within the visible church in its broadest sense.

And just to relate a personal experience, which is NOT intended to be a paradigm in support of my contention that the majority of Baptists categorically do not embrace 4 out of the 5 Points of Calvinism.

When I was at WTS in Philly, back in 1979, I sat beside a young man who told me he came from DTS. I asked why he enrolled at WTS when the theology taught between the two were diametrically opposed? He affirmed that this was true. When he affirmed biblical Calvinism as the truth he was denied his MDiv at his final oral examination. So, he hoped to finish his desire for the MDiv at WTS. He also affirmed my assessment of Sperry Chafer's Systematic Theology as NOT teaching Calvinism at all, but rather a distortion of Calvinism by redefining terms, etc., etc., ad nauseam.