“Did you know that the original Baptist confession of faith disagreed with you”
The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, found in updated language here:
http://www.grbc.net/about_us/1689.php
is not the original baptist confession of faith. It also doesn’t account for the being two types of Baptist - Particular and General. And example of a General Confession of Faith, from 1612, is found here:
http://www.reformedreader.org/ccc/acof1612.htm
I don’t agree with it all, either. However, there have been two camps of Baptists - Particular (because the believe in Calvin’s interpretation, with God atoning a particular group of people), and General (they believe the atonement was meant for anyone who receives it). General baptists preceded Particulars, but not by much, and the latter have outnumbered the former...at least in theory. The SBC, for example, comes from a Particular tradition, but most of the members I’ve met have been General.
A good article written from a Particular viewpoint is found here:
http://www.reformedreader.org/history/pbh.htm
“Arminianism came late to Baptists.”
Well, I’m not arminian, either. However, general baptists were at least as early or earlier than particular baptists...but with each congregation being fully independent, it is kind of hard to know. The pastor where I go claims to hold to Calvin’s PD, but preaches as if he does not...
Also, see the timeline here:
http://www.reformedreader.org/btimline.htm
How would you describe your theology?
Haven’t read the whole thing yet, but just stumbled on this article concerning FW/PD among Baptists:
“The influence of Calvinism on seventeenth-century English Baptists: theological labels need to be treated with care, for they are not, and cannot be, representative of fixed systems, totally resistant to reinterpretation according to changing context, be this temporal, geographical, or political”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXG/is_2_39/ai_n6116657/
Interesting.
Thanks.