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was there An "official" baptist eschatological position?

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Tom Butler

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I don't remember seeing any Baptist doctrinal statement that adopts a specific position. The Baptist Faith and Message of the SBC speaks of the certainty of his return, but not from a particular point of view.

Most Baptist churches I'm familiar with are all over the landscape. In my own congregation I know of at least three different views among our members.
 
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Yeshua1

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Tom Butler said:
I don't remember seeing any Baptist doctrinal statement that adopts a specific position. The Baptist Faith and Message of the SBC speaks of the certainty of his return, but not from a particular point of view.

Most Baptist churches I'm familiar with are all over the landscape. In my own congregation I know of at least three different views among our members.
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yes, that is how it seems to be, as most would actually have in their belief statements that Jesus will one day come back and judge dead/living, but UNLESS its states something about ruling/reigning on earth, it could be A Mil!
 
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Jerome

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The most specific eschatological pinpointing I've ever seen is the '1689' Confession ('held to' by many of the new 'Reformed' Baptists) which goes so far as to identify who the the Antichrist will be. (= "the Pope")
 
Greektim

Greektim

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Yeshua1 said:
yes, that is how it seems to be, as most would actually have in their belief statements that Jesus will one day come back and judge dead/living, but UNLESS its states something about ruling/reigning on earth, it could be A Mil!
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The horror!!!
 
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revmwc

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Yeshua1 said:
Would it be historical pre mil?
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it depends first on what brand of Baptist you are.

Many SBC schools are a-mil or mid-trib, a few may be pre-mil but not pre-trib, then some are pre-trib and pre-mil.

Many of the BBFI, IBF schools and churches are fully floedge dispensationalist and are pre-trib thus pre-mil.

Then you have the BMA which believe only their brand of baptist are part of the bride.
Then the GAGB, GARBC, teh FWB, the ORB, OUB, ABA, CBA and on the list goes. Maybe you need to ask which Baptist instead of Baptist.
 
asterisktom

asterisktom

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Tom Butler said:
I don't remember seeing any Baptist doctrinal statement that adopts a specific position. The Baptist Faith and Message of the SBC speaks of the certainty of his return, but not from a particular point of view.

Most Baptist churches I'm familiar with are all over the landscape. In my own congregation I know of at least three different views among our members.
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I know of several NCT (New Covenant) Baptists who are, like me, Preterists.
 
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OldRegular

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The Abstract of Principles of the Southern [Baptist] Seminary is amillennial. That Abstract was written by James P. Boyce one of the Founders.
 
asterisktom

asterisktom

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Greektim said:
Pick me!!! (though I'm not quite as much preterist as you, Tom)
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Of course, I was already given the slippery-slope caution when I became A-mill. It accelerated when I became NCT.

I was teaching through Hebrews from an A-Mill perspective. There was someone there, a Full Preterist, who kept asking these out of left field questions - but in a very polite way. I never had really satisfying responses to these probing ("midwifing") questions on various texts from Hebrews, so I became a partial-pret before I finished the study. Later, as a result of these questions still sticking red flags in my mind (sounds painful!) I became a Full-Preterist. Also, my doing a series of articles on Isaiah led me to that conclusion.

But I wonder whether "Full-Preterist" is a proper term for me, seeing that I believe events like that of Heb. 9:27 are still future, individually experienced by each of us at death.
 
David Lamb

David Lamb

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I would say that there is no "official" baptist position on this. I know I've said this several times before - the "unit" among baptists is the local church. We don't have a hierarchical organisation (like the parishes, dioceses, archdioceses, etc. of the Church of England, for example). So there is no one in any position to say things like: "Pre-millennialism is the official baptist position. All local baptist churches must adhere to it, or they cannot be baptist churches".
 
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Herald

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Yeshua1 said:
Would it be historical pre mil?
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Hard to say. There were a fair number of amil's in the 17th Cenury. Baptists of that time where heavily influenced by their Presbyterian brethren. It was only after Darby, and then Scofield, that the majority of Baptist churches adopted dispensationalism.
 
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OldRegular

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Herald said:
Hard to say. There were a fair number of amil's in the 17th Cenury. Baptists of that time where heavily influenced by their Presbyterian brethren. It was only after Darby, and then Scofield, that the majority of Baptist churches adopted dispensationalism.
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:tear::tear::tear::tear:
 
Dr. Bob

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Northern Baptists (todays ifb, conservative, GARBC, et al) look to men like Augusut H Strong as the "theologian" codifying traditional US Baptist positions.

His book was/is an essential in seminary.

He was NOT pre-trib/pre-mil
 
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