By Ken Silva

 
The President of the Southern Baptist Convention Dr. Frank Page has responded to a letter which I wrote to him concerning two time former president of the SBC Dr. Ed Young sharing a platform in February of 2007 with Oneness Pentecostal "Bishop" T.D. Jakes who denies the cardinal doctrine of the Holy Trinity–the actual nature of God.
 
Dear Dr. Page,
 
Please know that I wouldn't attempt to contact you if I didn't think we have a very serious problem here as I point out in this post at Slice "Get Ready - Creative Church Conference 2007 is A-Coming": http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/archives/2006/12/get_ready_creat.php
 
When Dr. Young yokes himself with Word Faith Oneness Pentecostal T.D. Jakes this should be of the utmost concern. For a former two time president of our convention to publicly endorse T.D. Jakes as a legitimate Christian brother is simply inexcusable.
 
As someone I respect I would very much appreciate hearing back from you concerning what you have to say about this.
 
Dr. Page, I thank you for you time and may the Lord have mercy on us.
 
In Christ,
Pastor Ken Silva
The Background For This Theological Discussion
Sadly this entire issue of Jakes' denial of the Holy Trinity is being met by the Body of Christ with a collective yawn. However, my background is in apologetics, counter-cult evangelism and Comparative Religion which has required that I have done much extensive research into the origin of the Bible itself, of Biblical manuscripts, detailed study of Church history, systematic theology, various World Religions and of course non-Christian cults for the better part of nineteen years.
 
This is necessary background information for you to have in order to understand why Dr. Frank Page and I would then be able to have a rather intense theological discussion regarding the nature of God. Well, surely I thought Dr. Frank Page would be concerned about this issue and want to know the stone cold undeniable facts concerning two very high profile representatives of the SBC who have violated 2 Corinthians 6:14 by publicly yoking themselves with T.D. Jakes who does not believe in God.
 
Cutting Through All The Technical Jargon
Again I apologize beforehand for the possibly difficult language and wherever I can I will attempt to simplify any of Dr. Page's hermeneutical exegesis regarding relevant passages that deal with the pneumatology necessary for this important area of theology. Before I begin to carefully break down Dr. Page's cogent and highly insightful comment for you it will prove helpful to the reader that I quote it in its entirety.
 
The president of the entire Southern Baptist Convention, who I readily admit has far more formal training than I, says in response to my letter of concern:
 
Pastor Silva, Thanks for your sharing of concerns with me. I pray for God's discernment for my life as well as for others too. May we all be able to speak the truth in love.
 
In Christ,
Frank Page
 
O I know, you're probably thinking right now: "Whew, where in the world does one possibly begin to deconstruct a letter of this profundity?" And yet, I will attempt to give it my best. Dr. Page begins with, "Thanks for sharing your concerns with me." Well, with my own years of study–taking into account I am but self-taught–my best guess here as to making this accessible to the reader would be that Dr. Page has just said: "I have a fly in my office and I really want it to go away. It's really annoying me as it buzzes around in here." Again, I make no claim to be a theologian but this is what I am seeing before me.
 
Next we come to the central issue Dr. Page brings up in this most judicious reply. He says, "I pray for God's discernment for my life as well as for others too." Now, to the best of my ability here I sense what Dr. Page is attempting to teach me is: "I have a piece of chewing gum stuck to the bottom of my shoe which irritates me as I walk, and so I pray it will somehow just get scraped off." And finally this brings us to the climatic point concerning our theological discussion about the nature of the God we both are serving together in the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest allegedly "Protestant" Denomination in the entire country.
 
Dr. Page then presses his argument home with: "May we all be able to speak the truth in love." I must admit, this did take me a little off guard in our odium theologicum. But after much soul-searching and prayer I do believe the Lord has helped me to see that Dr. Page has essentially patted me on my proverbial head and said: "Thanks for writing me little boy, now you just run along and play. I really can't be bothered with all of this nonsense about Who God is. I have very important work to do developing Christ followers for His Kingdom." But no Dr. Page wouldn't simply try and patronize me like that; would he?
 
O well, I guess that's for another day but for now I might put the following before the reader: Do we seriously think that Christ Jesus will simply stand idly by while His Church won't even defend the nature of Who He is? If you happen to believe that I can tell you this: You had best invest in some spiritual underwear made of the heaviest asbestos because it is going to get mighty hot within the Southern Baptist Convention. And Dr. Page, you need to know this. That letter I sent to you was only God's battering ram with which to open up this issue and voices much louder than mine are soon to speak the Truth in love to you.
 
May the Lord have mercy on us all...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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