What is the difference between a baptist and a non denominational christian?

Answer 1

Christians and BaptistsChristians believe in Jesus as God's son and our Savior. Baptists are one of the branches of the Christian faiths.

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• Christian's believe and HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS as God's Son and have invited him to enter their life. Even demons believe He is the Son of God. Being saved and therefore a Christian requires confessing to Him that you are a sinner and need forgiveness and want him to enter your heart.

• As in all denominations, what constitutes a Christian does not come from which one you belong to. There are true Christians across many denominations, and being in a particular one cannot automatically 'make' you a Christian. Ideally, there should be no difference, but people still have control over how they make choices and live. You can't necessarily judge a church or Christians as a whole from a particular individual.

Aside from being a Christian in name only, a true Christian has trusted in Jesus Christ as the One who died for his/her sins. The normal result of this is a new life that desires to live in a way that is obedient to God & glorifies Him on a daily basis.

While there are a number of folks that identify themselves as being Baptist, a portion believe in Christ, but some do not. Therefore some have clarified this by saying that they are Bible-believing Baptists. Thankfully, this is not always the case, even though the distinction of "Bible-believing" is not made, but there are those who nonetheless endeavor to be faithful to the truth of God's Word.

Historically, Baptists have held to certain distinctive doctrines, of which other Christians may or may not uphold in totality. A simple acrostic of this is:

Biblical authority for all faith & practice (The Bible being inerrant & preserved)

Autonomy of the local church

Priesthood of every believer

Two ordinances of the church: Baptism by immersion & The Lord's Supper

Individual soul liberty (The individual right & responsibility to believe)

Salvation through faith alone (Saved membership)

Two officers of the church: Pastors & Deacons

Separation of church & state

The order of membership in a Bible-believing Baptist church is salvation first (by trust in Christ as one's Savior), believer's baptism (in obedience to Christ's teaching), then joining a local Christ-honoring congregation.

Baptists claim a heritage that goes back to the days of Christ as believers.

Answer:Christian refers to behavior.

Acts 11:26 (KJV) And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

The disciples behaved like Christ and as a result were called "followers of Christ" or "Christians". A person may behave "Christ like" but not actually be "born again".

Born Again refers to a spiritual change that God performs in a persons life.

John 3:3 (KJV) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

John 3:4 (KJV) Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

John 3:5 (KJV) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Baptist refers to the church that baptized a person, it refers to "baptism". A person that is a "Baptist" should be "born again" and should be behaving like a "Christian". However, a person may have been baptized in a Baptist church but not really be "born again" and also not be a follower of Christ (behaving Christ-like).

• Born Again -- allows entrance into heaven
• Christian -- a way a person behaves, a follower of Christ
• Baptist -- baptized in a Baptist church

First of all, Baptist is NOT its own religion, it is merely a denomination of Christianity itself.

Answer 2

baptists strictly believe in salvation by only faith and not works and that works are only a way of showing love to our great God and king. Other denominations believe that works help or that salvation is only by works. Baptists believe that all Christians are saints were other denominations believe that their are no saints or that saints are something special. Baptists believe that the old testaments laws do not apply to us now such as the eating of meat or the Saturday sabbath. Wear as the other denominations keep the Old Testament laws or get rid of the old Testament altogether.

Answer 3

A Baptist church answers to a governing body such as the Southern Baptist Convention while Interdenominational churches usually have no outside decision makers. Baptist churches generally have the same set of beliefs while beliefs change among interdenominational churches.

Answer 4

They are the same church, of course; they are all branches of one Church of Jesus Christ. The difference between the Baptist church (branch) and the majority of others is that the Baptist church believes that a person should only be baptised if they believe, not in the assumption that they will grow up to become a Christian.

Answer 5

They don't. Baptist are evangelical christians. Unless your talking about the christian denomination then theres no way to know since there are so many branch denominations. I would suggest atending some baptist and christian churchs to find out.

Answer 6

Their beliefs are fairly similar. I'm not an expert on the bapist faith but I do know that the non denominational faith bases all their beliefs on the inspired Word of God.