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Baptist Essentials

Michael Wrenn

New Member
What would you say are the essentials for being a Baptist? Not for a particular "breed" of Baptist (reformed, arminian, etc.), but for being a Baptist Christian?

What must you believe in order to be a Baptist?
 

glfredrick

New Member
First, realize that there are 57 varieties of Baptists in America, then start to examine them one-by-one.

I'd say the primary Baptist distinctive is being Baptist, whatever that means.
 

12strings

Active Member
I would say that the ONLY baptist distinctive is the belief in Believer's Baptism, ie, not infant baptism.

I'm not saying that all who hold to beleiver's Baptism are by definition baptists, but I am saying that if you asked a Baptist if they hold to believer's baptism, they would most likely say yes.

In probably any other issue you could think of, there would be difference of belief.
 

DaChaser1

New Member
What would you say are the essentials for being a Baptist? Not for a particular "breed" of Baptist (reformed, arminian, etc.), but for being a Baptist Christian?

What must you believe in order to be a Baptist?

Hold to orthodox Christian theology, distinctives being believers baptism and the individuals right to study and come to doctrines as one sees fit, as long as in the "pale of orthodoxy!"
 
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