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

51. Baptists came into existence as two distinct groups, with somewhat different beliefs and practices, but with believer’s baptism in common

52. Smyth would eventually 'switch' to Anabaptistry, to the horror of the Pilgrims and Richard Clifton, becoming an early founder of the Baptists

53. Although each Baptist church is an independent entity, Baptists nonetheless have always believed in associating with one another - and so the

54. “Beth Moore has more influence and more cachet with Southern Baptists, especially white Southern Baptist women, than the vast majority of …

55. The American Baptist Association represents only a small part of the Baptists in America, but these arguments are quite common and they deserve investigation.

56. Beginning in the early 17th century, Baptists were the first religious group to adopt separation of church and state as a fundamental article of faith

57. Baptists believe in a church composed only of regenerated or converted individuals, that is, persons who have had a personal experience of the Christian religion

58. Cartelize the health care industry in a way that places the preferences of government bureaucrats and interests of Bootleggers and Baptists above those of the public

59. Baptists (Greek, baptizein, to baptize), a Protestant denomination, which exists chiefly in English-speaking countries and owes its name to its characteristic doctrine and practice regarding baptism.

60. The Wine of Astonishment is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of the persecution of Spiritual Baptists during British colonial rule in Trinidad from 1917 to 1951

61. Baptists make up the largest Protestant Christian group in Arkansas, characterized by the practice of baptism, usually by immersion, on profession of faith in Jesus Christ

62. In 1733 one or two Baptists arrived in Savannah with James Oglethorpe, and others soon followed.Tiny Baptist centers were formed in the Savannah and Augusta areas

63. Most Strict Baptists formed the National Federation of Strict and Particular Baptist Churches in 1946, but the Standard party (or Gadsbyites) still remains very much aloof.

64. At the turn of the 21st century, there were about 43 million Baptists worldwide with about 33 million of those in the United States and 216,000 in Britain.

65. Texas Baptists is a movement of God’s people to share Christ and show love by strengthening churches and ministers, transforming culture, and connecting the nations to Jesus.

66. Back Off the Baptists: Why Steven Furtick Does Not Anathematize the SBC February 20, 2014 News Division Many of have taken issue with Steven Furtick in recent years

67. The Baptists conduct systematic religious propaganda among the vast popular masses, since conversion of those of a different mind is incumbent not only on specially trained preachers but also on

68. Its report concluded: “Aleksi’s collaboration was nothing exceptional—almost all senior leaders of all officially-recognised religious faiths—including the Catholics, Baptists, Adventists, Muslims and Buddhists—were recruited KGB agents.

69. Wood says he was ‘Anabaptistically inclin'd,’ which means that, in accordance with the terms of his commission, baptists (who abounded in Gloucestershire) were not as such excluded from the ministry

70. Baptist - Baptist - History: Some Baptists believe that there has been an unbroken succession of Baptist churches from the days of John the Baptist and the Apostles of Jesus Christ

71. The reason Baptists as a whole are not credal is primarily because the standard is the inerrant and infallible Word of God (Scripture), not the words of man (i.e

72. Like the Waldenses, it is also believed that “… the Albigenses had been in the valleys of France from the earliest ages of Christianity.” (Source: “A History of the Baptists,” by John T

73. Twenty-five churches associated with the Alliance of Baptists are participating in a five-year national scholarly study of how to expose and address systemic racism in their local contexts.

74. We therefore expressly ordain that you desist from molesting these Baptists [Anabaptists], from offering hindrance to their handicraft and daily trade, by which they can earn bread for their wives and children. . . .

75. Baptists are Christians who comprise a group of denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers, and that it must be done by immersion.

76. Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer’s baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or aspersion)

77. Baptist (countable and uncountable, plural Baptists) An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations ) of Christianity , which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults ), as opposed to the baptism of infants .

78. Word "Baptists." Biblical Authority - The Bible is the final authority in all matters of belief and practice because the Bible is inspired by God and bears the absolute authority of God Himself

79. The church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Biisk on 19 November filed in the arbitration court of Altai Territory a lawsuit against the mayor's office of the science city for two million rubles

80. Baptists in America is a remarkable story of how one religious denomination was transformed from persecuted minority into a leading actor on the national stage, with profound implications for American society and culture.