History of The Baptist Church

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[benaim]

I am from a Catholic family, but surprisingly my parents enrolled me in a Baptist Academy and that is where I finished elementary school. I even got baptised there(second time) though it was superfluous. I went back to the Catholic Church, and now I will remain a Catholic. Just trying to fulfill what I vowed during Confirmation. I learned a lot in that school about Jesus and the Bible and for that I am thankful. My mother in some way does regret that I went to that school. Though past is past, and I believe God was forming me in that school.

[bennywaters]

Great video today. Really appreciated the historical survey. Makes me want to get the book and read through to find out more about my tradition. I've spent time in other traditions here in Australia, but for the last 6 years I've returned 'home' to my baptist roots. I found the comments on the general and particular baptist insightful. I identify with the particular (so 1689 ...I've loved studying this myself along with the Westminster confession). And I would say that here in Oz even in the congregation where I worship, there is a mix of general and particular...I would say that the general (more arminian like) is the majority though.

[mrluchothesupers]

Really liked this video. I'm a Baptist living in Argentina. Pretty educational

[Hillbillygreasemonkey]

Greatly appreciate this study. Born and raised a Baptist, and love studying the history

[Logos-Nomos]

The Kingdom of the Cukts was quite revealing and I noticed that the vast majority of the cults were credobaptists.

[ИванЖивцов-фя]

Hello everybody! I can afford to disagree with the historian, since his words that Baptists are not the direct heirs of Anabaptists are, to put it mildly, untrue. It should be remembered here that John Smith's group moved to Holland and joined the Anabaptists, where John Smith himself later died. It should also be remembered that Evangelical Baptist Christians in Russia in particular and in the territory of the former Russian Empire in general are the direct heirs of Fraternal Mennonites, that is, Anabaptists. But the Baptists took the name for themselves for historical reasons.

[riverjao]

Origen (185-254) Homily 5 on Romans he writes:

“The Church received from the Apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. For the Apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of divine mysteries, knew that there is in everyone the innate stains of sin, which must by washed away through water and the Spirit.”

That’s quite a while before 500 AD.

[j.sethfrazer]

When we consider that in a time where Christianity was a new religion and believer’s Baptism (Credobaptism) naturally looked like it was the predominant view of baptism in the Church, I find it to be a bit dishonest to categorize that as the “ancient” practice or “normative” practice, given the development of the Church’s religiosity. In other words, when virtually no one has ever heard the Gospel, OBVIOUSLY most of Christianity will be consenting believers desiring to be Baptized. That says absolutely nothing about the Apostolic theology around Baptism. All it says is Christianity was a new religion.

I just think it’s kind of telling that there’s not a single passage in the entire Bible that describes Holy Baptism as anything like an “outward expression of an inward change.” I think that should tell us something is a bit off with how Baptists assume Biblical Soteriology works. There’s plenty of Scriptural evidence that we are JUSTIFIED by believing and having faith, but there’s virtually ZERO Scriptural evidence that we are actually REGENERATED by believing and having faith. That’s God’s work. That’s the Holy Spirit’s work through the Means of Grace: Word and Sacrament. Historically, Baptists have always falsely equated justification with regeneration and, personal-experience talking, it causes a lot of confusion in the long-run.

[myotheraccountissuspended]

I'm not baptist myself but I know some very good people that are, being a historian I had to find the origin of the goodness in the Baptist faith.

[bigmyke]

I’m pleased with the historical dates, he was on point.

[colinpowell]

Please can the book be published as an audiobook available on Audible?

[geographicaloddity]

In light of the SBC rejecting the Nicene Creed, it's interesting he affirmed that the early Baptists used the creeds of the early church.

[benwalsh]

Roger Williams believed in the law of liberty. it is where separation of church and state comes from. it is the source of the first amendment

[ronreeder]

When Abraham circumcised himself, the "default" position was credo circumcision. The "default" position later became pedo circumcision. Both were God's will, according to the Bible.

[geoffchurchill]

if you're going to refer to other churches as cults, be consistent, shouldn't baptists be calledd a cult too?

[pahinchao]

why do not many people worship on Saturday instead of Sunday?

[clarencehammer]

I noticed that there was no mention of the Seventh Day Baptists. I’m sure that they must be one of I if not the smallest Baptist denominations. I think they are almost unknown. One time I read that there are more than 30 different kinds of Baptists.

[jackmakando]

Baptist has a rich history and regret to see most Baptist believer's Don't know the history.

[leewhite]

Even the thief on the cross knew Jesus was God. Luke 23:39>40 kjv. Isiah 43: 10>11 kjv .

[SUPERFLASH-activate]

Thanks for this video, i was looking for church history for long time until i stumbled on this. Many thanks...