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Baptists tend to splinter over issues
of every size. There's the Primitive Baptists, 5 point Calvinists, generally no instrumental music (not always), they wash your feet at the door because Jesus washed the disciples feet at the Last Supper. They basically believe that Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper and the Foot Washing then. Most others don't see things that way. Reformed Baptists, Reformed meaning 5 point Calvinists, but no other practices of the Primitive Baptists are picked up. General Baptists, Non-Calvinist, some almost anti-Calvinist. Southern Baptists have both Calvinists and non-Calvinists so one has to interview the pastor fairly closely to make sure you're getting what you want, but historically, more non-Calvinist. Then there are all kinds of independent Baptist churches, particularly down south where the SBC was just too liberal or conservative on [whatever topic goes here], so that church left the SBC. Some of these do join to form associations, but many are just independent. They basically split over various rules of doctrine, but instead of tolerating the difference, one of them thinks that theirs is THE WAY and splits off from the other. David If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.--Mark Twain
On 6/6/2010 12:41 AM, bil...@aol.com wrote:
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