what does the baptist church teach and are their teachings correct?

Question

i want to know everything about the baptist community ,their teachings,their beliefs and disbeliefs.

Answer 1

They believe in Christ Jesus, Son of God, God incarnate, and that He died on the cross in payment of sin. They believe in the Trinity. There are different Baptist churches - some are very conservative, while others are not. They don't believe in drinking at all, in fact they serve grape juice at communion. But they have the basics down.

Answer 2

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A Baptist is a person who has faith in Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah of the Jews and has confessed that faith by baptism. A Baptist church is a congregation of likeminded Baptists who meet together for worship, teaching, evangelism, and the administration of Christian ordinances. Having been baptized with a deep water baptism by John the Baptist, Jesus established the first baptistic congregation among the Jews and the Baptist movement has spread to virtually all (if not every) nation in the world today.

Baptists emphasize the absolute authority of the Christian Bible. Consequently, they view faith in Jesus as the savior as they only way of eternal life, believer's baptism by full immersion as the only baptism, and the congregational governance system as the only valid form of church government.

Baptist churches often associate in national organizations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Baptist Convention, and the American Baptist Association, as well as hundreds of regional and local associations. There are also many Independent Baptist churches who do not participate in any organized associations but, nonetheless, have vigorous fellowship with other likeminded churches.

Answer 3

I was practically born in a Southern Baptist Church and since I have grown up I have been a member of Pentecostal and Mennonite Churches and visited many others. Having said that the only way to know the Baptist belief system fully is to attend a Baptist Church for long enough to understand them fully. I say this of all Churches there are flaws, because the Churches are run by humans who, although saved, are still full of flaws. We have to search out where God wants us to be. After growing up staunch Baptist I finally realized that denomination shouldn't be an issue in finding a Church for you to attend. When my family moves we try a different Church each Sunday and pray that God will open our eyes to which one He wants us to serve him at.

Answer 4

Yes, their teachings are Biblically based. They are strong believers in evangelism and missions because Chirst commanded it. To clear up some misconceptions, we do not fear Pentecostals; we do not believe having an occasional drink is a sin; we do not believe we are the only ones going to Heaven, nor that all Catholics are going to Hell. We do, however believe that parts of the Catecism of the Catholic Church are in direct contradiction to scripture. Here are a couple of websites that explain the Baptist statement of faith and their beliefs. The second website lists distinctive Baptist beliefs as opposed to some other denominations.

http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp#i

http://www.baptiststart.com/doctrine.htm#bytopic

Depending upon which Baptist Church you attend, the style of worship may vary greatly from traditional (choir, hymns, formal dress) to contemporary (casual dress, live band with guitars and drums). I prefer contemporary.

Answer 5

See below for a link to Baptist.org and also the Southern Baptist Convention. No one else has done this so far because they know whatever you say about them, there's another group who believes the exact opposite.

Some of the controversial beliefs include "Eternal Security," disbelief in the gifts of the Spirit in modern times.


What I like about Baptist is that they know and study their Bibles.

Edited to add: Sorry Reverent Reflections. Your answer was very gracious and mine wasn't.

Answer 6

I know this fella who is a baptist and apparently his father is someone of importance in their church.

But whenever we would have a discussion, his thesis would always become these circular arrangements that failed to prove a darn thing.

Particularly I found it disturbing that he claimed they made an especial effort to read the bible as it is without changing a single thing, BUT after further discussion with him of the first book - genesis - revealed that they have a revisionist view of how the universe was created that differed from exactly how it was written.

I guess that means that while they believe the exact words - they will interpret it in any order and however they like...

Answer 7

Baptist teaching is very dogmatic thus there are many different splinter groups. THey cannot get along with each other. They are afraid of pentecostals and steeped in traditionalism. Very active in world-wide evangelism. God loves them too!

Answer 8

As with any religion, the only teachings that are in Complete Harmony with the Scriptures are correct, while the rest of them are not.

Why You Can Trust the Bible :
- Does It Contradict Itself?
- History and Science
- Foretelling the Future
http://watchtower.org/library/t13/why_trust.htm

True Teachings--Where Can You Find Them?
- True Teachings That Please God
- - How Old?
- - How Organized?
- - Can You Trust the Bible?
- - What Does the Bible Teach?
- - What Will You Do?
http://watchtower.org/e/20050715/article_01.htm

How Can You Find the True Religion? :
1 Are all religions pleasing to God, or is just one?
2 Why are there so many religions that claim to be Christian?
3 How can you identify true Christians?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_13.htm

I also suggest the book:

What Does the Bible Really Teach?
http://watchtower.org/e/publications/index.htm

Answer 9

Well, to a Baptist they are correct, to everyone else they are wrong.

I think we needed to call in Captain Obvious on this one

Answer 10

If an atheist said they were tainted in false premises would you actually listen and question your considerations or is it just peer pressure and non thinking lip service in vain. the fence is always two sided.
peace out & good luck to you