baptist

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But, the real test is this: if men of my convictions can be effectively branded as non-baptist or non-fundamentalist or even non-dispensationalist this forces any other institution that claims to hold the same convictions as MBBC to cope with our stigma if they dare to associate with us.

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  1. One who administers baptism: the title (with a capital letter) of John, the forerunner of Christ. Him the Baptist soon descried. Milton, P. R., i. 25.
  2. [capitalized] A member or an adherent of one of those Christian denominations which maintain that baptism can be administered only upon a personal profession of Christian faith. Generally, though not always, Baptists are immersionists. This doctrine has been held from a very early age of the Christian church; but the Baptists as a distinct denomination date from the epoch of the Reformation, and were originally called Anabaptists by their opponents. In the United States the Baptists owe their origin to Roger Williams, who was originally a minister of the Church of England. The principal Baptist denominations are the Baptists, sometimes called Calvinist Baptists, from their Calvinistic theology; Freewill Baptists, who are Arminian in theology and open communionists in practice; German Baptists, popularly called Dunkers; General Baptists, a party of English Baptists who are Arminian in theology and hold to a general atonement (opposed to Particular Baptists, who are Calvinistic); Old-School Baptists, sometimes called Anti-Mission or Hard-Shell Baptists, from their extreme Calvinism, which leads them to oppose all active measures for the conversion of the world (a sect numbering 40,000); Seventh-Day Baptists, who keep the seventh day, instead of the first, as the sabbath; Six-Principle Baptists, so called from the six principles which constitute their creed (they practise “laying on of hands,” and refuse communion to all who do not); Disciples of Christ, also called Christians or Campbellites, an American denomination growing out of the labors of Alexander Campbell, and separately organized in 1827; Winebrennerians, or Church of God (organized in 1830 by John Winebrenner), who maintain the washing of feet as an ordinance of perpetual obligation; and Christians, or the Christian Connection, an American sect of Unitarian Baptists founded about 1800. The Baptists are congregational in polity, and generally Calvinistic or semi-Calvinistic in theology. Those of Great Britain do not generally regard baptism by immersion as a prerequisite to communion, and therefore commune with other churches; but the opposite position is, with few exceptions, adopted by the Baptists of the United States. The former are popularly called open-communionists, the latter close-communionists.
  3. Landmark Baptists a Baptist party, strong in the southwestern United States, which advocates a revival of the old landmark of non-ministerial intercourse between Baptists and pedo-baptists. They refuse to recognize the churches and ministers of the latter and hold their baptism to be invalid.

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  • Well they (southern baptist, etc) are backing a woman who could be the president of the usa soon. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • Kelly: "in the southern-baptist parking lot, where I help stripe the parking spots" ... maybe?? anyone?? —  The 9513
  • - You are partly responsible for me being a reformed baptist as opposed to just a regular vanilla baptist, though I haven't yet decided whether I should thank you for that or not. —  Pros Apologian
  • These states don't have a strong southern-baptist presence so the bradley effect will be nullified completely. —  ModerateVoters.org
  • But, the real test is this: if men of my convictions can be effectively branded as non-baptist or non-fundamentalist or even non-dispensationalist this forces any other institution that claims to hold the same convictions as MBBC to cope with our stigma if they dare to associate with us. —  Pensees
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  1. from Middle English baptist (only in reference to John the Baptist), from Late Latin baptista, from Greek βαπτιστής, one who baptizes, from βαπτίζειν, baptize: see baptize.
 

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