To: 1000 silverlings
And, Baptists are descended from the teachigns of John Smyth -- John Smyth, a Fellow of Christs College in the Church of England, he became "Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separatist," and ended his days working with the Mennonites (Leonard, Bill J. (2003). Baptist Ways: A History. Judson Press)
As a fourth generation group of Protestants, they moved further away from orthodoxy --> as we see how the first generation (Lutherans), differed from second generation (Calvinist) and third generation (Anabaptists, Unitarians etc). We see a further movement away from orthodoxy leading to the seventh generation Protestant groupings like Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, CHristian Scientists.
4,308 posted on
09/13/2010 2:07:02 PM PDT by
Cronos
(Κύριε ἐλέησον, Χρισ)
To: Cronos
you dont understand the term "Baptists". "Bible believers" is more apt. Independent churches. We may have loose organizations but Christ alone is our head
4,313 posted on
09/13/2010 2:11:11 PM PDT by
1000 silverlings
(everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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