Baptist churches are traced to the 1600s•John Smyth accepted Mennonite teaching•Smyth’s followers returned to England and formed various Baptist churches•Calvinism became the predominate doctrine

Baptist churches are not in the NT•John the baptist did not start a church

-Before Christ’s death, Eph. 5:25-John said follow Christ, Jn. 1:35-37

•Baptist doctrines do not agree with the NT

American Baptist Association•Root: Baptist General Association•Name adopted in 1924•Conventions are not scriptural•Inherited sin•Church began w/Jesus’ ministry•Baptism administered by church authority, cf. Acts 8:26-39

Free Will Baptist•Traced to Arminian-minded Baptist•Southern Line – Palmer movement, 1727•Northern Line – Randall movement, 1780•Merged in 1935:National Association of Free Will Baptist

Primitive Baptist•Kenhukee Association of NCcondemned all “money-based” societies (missionary societies) in 1827•Others followed•Associations published meeting minutes on which fellowship was based

Primitive Baptist•Never formally organized into denomination•Exclusive & Calvinistic•Object to instrumental music

Southern Baptist Convention•Founded over N/S tensions in 1840s•HQ in Boston mostly abolitionists•Board refused to supportslave-holding missionaries•Formed SBC in 1845

Southern Baptist Convention•Over 16 million members•40,000 plus churches•Recent in-fighting betweenmoderates and conservatives•June 1995: apology forfounders’ defense of slavery

Inherited Sin“Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin” (SBC).

Inherited Sin•Son does not inherit father’s sin, Eze. 18•Why did Eve sin, Gen. 3:1-6; Jas. 1:13-15

Salvation by faith alone“Faith…In the exercise of saving faith, the soul is renewed by the Holy Spirit, freed from the dominion of sin, and becomes the child of God” (Free Will Baptist).

Salvation by faith alone•Not by faith only, Jas. 2:14-26•Faith w/o confession = no salvation, Jn. 12:42, 43; cf. Lk. 12:8, 9; Gal. 1:10

Once saved always saved“All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end” (SBC).

Once saved always saved•Why warn about the impossible, 1 Cor. 10:12•Jesus taught the possibility of apostasy,Lk. 8:4-8, 11-15; 15:11-32

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Baptist churches are traced to the 1600s•John Smyth accepted Mennonite teaching•Smyth’s followers returned to England and formed various Baptist churches•Calvinism became the predominate doctrine

Baptist churches are not in the NT•John the baptist did not start a church

-Before Christ’s death, Eph. 5:25-John said follow Christ, Jn. 1:35-37

•Baptist doctrines do not agree with the NT