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well since there are many Baptists in America and we are all different. Northern(American) Baptists are liberals and do not believe in the inerrancy of the word of God. Primitive Baptists add certain practices that are not found in the word of God. Southern Baptists believe in Conventions and have different view points(conservative, moderate and liberal), black baptists preach a social gospel and Fundamental independent Baptists believe in the local church, in the told literal inerrant word of God.
well since there are many Baptists in America and we are all different.
But don't all Baptists have certain very basic principles or rituals in common, no matter which of the different Baptist 'groups' they belong to?
I'm thinking here about the Baptist practice of a person having to be a certain age before being baptised. An ancestress of mine was a Baptist and in researching my family history I learned that unlike Catholics, et cetera, infants and children are not baptised; that ritual must wait until the person is an adult or almost so. My ancestress was baptised 'early' (at age 17) back in the 1700s (Second Baptist Church in Boston). So I would think something like that would be common to Baptists no matter what other differences of dogma or interpretation may exist between sub-denominations.
not fundamentalists and American Baptists. I have been to all types of Baptists churches in the US and latin America and Fundies are totally different in principles and rituals from liberal American Baptists. Southerner and American Baptists totally worship in different ways and have totally different principles. Black Baptists and American Baptists might be more the same than others though.
there is no age for fundies to baptize. We baptize those who first become saved, while other baptists believe in infant Baptism.
Just so you know, I saw Baptist there on its own. Its actually belongs there with Protestant.
Nope...do some Baptist history searches. This was brought up in another thread somewhere...search online for The Trail of Blood by Dr. J.M. Carroll. I am sure some others disagree, but he did quite a lot of research on the subject. We (Baptists) were never a part of the Catholic Church and therefore, not one of the protestors.
CarolinaJack, so you're saying that there is not ONE thing that all Baptist groups have in common? I'm still confused. If the groups are so very different, then why do they all call themselves Baptists??
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I have carolinajack on my ignore list, he's the only one. If you don't understand why yet you soon will!
well there is a long history of the baptist starting with John Smyth in the 1609 leading a seperatist group. There are some things that are familiar or similar and then there are things, which i have pointed out are totally not at all similar.
why would i be put on the ignore list for answering questions someone is asking??? windflower is asking honest questions and i am answering them, what is wrong with shadow??
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