Featured Baptist are not Protestants

John the Baptist baptism was for repentance and only for the Jews. Jesus commended his disciples to baptise in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit big difference. Its not the same baptism at all.

Justification by faith and predestination both are doctrines taught by Paul in the Bible but Lutherans and Calvinists don't pretend to have their origin with Paul.

Baptists came to existence as a movement as result of the Protestant Reformation and Anabaptist movement. Particular Baptists in England in 17th cent. were Calvinists who believed in baptism by immersion and general Baptists at that time were Arminians.

 

Before John Wesley was born again, there was George Whitefield who was the most popular Calvinist Methodist preacher in Britain and America, even though Whitefield like Wesley remained Anglicans to the end, the great revival in Britain was more Calvinistic in Welsh and more Arminian in England. Wales was considered land of revivals and the last great revival was that of 1905 and Evan Roberts was the instrument God used.

Like someone mentioned here Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a Calvinistic Methodist and this is an appropriate description of him, he came from Wales and from that calvinistic evangelical tradition.

Whitefield was the greatest preacher of the Evangelical Revival, Wesley was a better organizer than Whitefield, that's why Arminian Methodists movement increased and became more predominant in England.

 

I agree with the OP that Baptist are not Protestant neither are Protestants Baptist and we can question their doctrinal identity... But is that their true identity?... Or is the true identity of anyone who takes up the Cross of Christ and follows him known by this name... Brother Glen

Acts 11:25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:

11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

 

The five solas ('alones') of the Protestant Reformation were
Christ alone
Grace alone
Faith alone
The Scriptures alone and
To the Glory of God alone.

That's where I stand as a Baptist- alongside my Protestant brothers and sisters.

 

This is true, though I view this as a matter of poor understanding of Doctrine. I do not doubt those ministers were sincere believers that thought they were instructing properly, but they were in error.


God bless.