baptists in English

noun
1
a member of a Protestant Christian denomination advocating baptism only of adult believers by total immersion. Baptists form one of the largest Protestant bodies and are found throughout the world and especially in the US.
Lutherans, Calvinists, Methodists, Baptists and even agnostics have found him deserving.
2
a person who baptizes someone.

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1. Primitive Baptists are to be distinguished from Missionary Baptists, General Baptists, and Southern Baptists, although they all share a common lineage

2. There were two groups in early Baptist life: the Particular Baptists and the General Baptists.

3. National Association of Free Will Baptists

4. The Southern Baptist Convention was founded in 1845 at Augusta, Georgia, by Baptists in the Southern US who split with northern Baptists over the issue of slavery, with Southern Baptists strongly

5. Baptists do not practice infant baptism.

6. Economically, Baptists vary from paupers to billionaires.

7. The two main strands were known as General Baptists and Particular Baptists. There were also a few Sabbatarian or Seventh-day Baptists in the late seventeenth century, but they were never numerous.

8. Baptists reject any church hierarchy; however, among contemporary Baptists the role of the church, the clergy, and centralization is increasing

9. Baptists are traditionally strong believers in Biblical authority

10. Racially, Baptists are—“red, yellow, brown, black and white.” Once predominately white, Baptists are now a virtual kaleidoscope of human hues

11. Baptists traditionally advocate the separation of Church and State.

12. Whatever the Bible affirms, Baptists accept as true

13. Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, Chicago, Illinois

14. Baptists number in the millions worldwide and frequently make news

15. Baptists form the fifth largest Christian church in the world

16. Baptists were fallen Catholics known as Ana-Baptist in Europe.

17. Most Baptists trace their heritage to early 17 th-century C.E

18. A mixture as well such as Baptists, Angelicins, and Catholics

19. Adventists, Baptists, Evangelicals, and Presbyterians issued pamphlets against the Witnesses.

20. (This view, however, is shared by others who are not Baptists.)

21. Baptists were first religious group to adopt separation of church and state

22. Jacobite crowds sometimes attacked poor Dissenting groups,[Sentencedict.com ] such as the Baptists.

23. Baptists are grass-roots people, with a particular emphasis on the local church

24. Even some Baptists are not familiar with Baptist beliefs and practices, heritage and history

25. Lungu was raised Catholic, but she and her husband are now practicing Baptists.

26. Why Baptists are not Christian, but are really Angels of Light and do the Devil's works! This is an exposé of facts of what the Baptists believe and do in their religion

27. “Members of all faiths —Pentecostals, Adventists, Baptists, and everyone else— are joining the uprising.

28. Baptists definition at Dictionary.com, a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms and translation

29. Most scholars, however, agree that Baptists, as an English-speaking denomination, originated within 17th

30. Some followers sought to disown the name Anabaptists in favor of the title “Baptists.”

31. Early Baptists sought the freedom to worship God as they believed the Scriptures taught.

32. Notable Baptists have included Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan and Billy Graham

33. Historically, Baptists have played a key role in encouraging religious freedom and separation of church and state

34. The Baptists consider the Scriptures to be the sufficient and exclusive rule of faith and practice

35. DISTINCTIVE PRINCIPLES.—The Baptists consider the Scriptures to be the sufficient and exclusive rule of faith and practice

36. They exhibit great diversity in customs, but most Baptists have congregational polity combined with voluntary interconnection of congregations

37. The Baptists are like a two-headed coin, flesh on one side and religion on the other side

38. Yet little is known about Baptists by the world in general and what is known is often misunderstood

39. The quicksands of Anabaptistry : the covenant theology of the English separatists and the origins of the Baptists

40. Kidd and Hankins, both practicing Baptists, weave the threads of Baptist history alongside those of American history

41. Prophets plural, christ, Anointeds, plural, many different ones: one's a Methodist anointed, Baptists, and the Pentecostal, and so forth

42. William Merrell, in an article entitled “Bibliolatry–A Fraudulent Accusation,” discusses the charge that Southern Baptists are Bibliolaters.

43. Baptists originated among English dissenters of the 17th century, but have spread worldwide through emigration and missionary work

44. As the National Voice for LGBTQ and Allied Baptists, AWAB supports churches in being and becoming Welcoming & Affirming,

45. Why is Lent relevant for Baptists? Three reasons for observing some form of Lenten practice suggest themselves, in ascending importance

46. The American Baptist Church, USA, has roughly 1.3 million members and was formerly known as the Northern Baptist Convention, which formed after the split with the Southern Baptists. A key distinctive of the American Baptists is the freedom of the individual churches to have differing beliefs.

47. Baptists believe that the Bible is the only authority because it is divinely inspired or has a divine nature.

48. Since the origins of the church, Baptists have said the Bible is the only authority for Christian faith and practice

49. A year and a half after passing a controversial resolution on critical race theory, Southern Baptists are debating the topic again

50. Most scholars, however, agree that Baptists, as an English-speaking denomination, originated within 17th-century Puritanism as an offshoot of Congregationalism