There are a number of different religious denominations which have the name 'Baptist'. Although some doctrines differ between the various Baptist groups, they all base their beliefs on the Bible, and all give particular emphasis to the need for total water immersion on the part of adult converts as an essential part of induction into the faith. (Matthew 28:19, Acts2:41) Given that Jesus Christ was baptised in this way and that he taught his followers that they should go and make disciples and baptise them, it could be said that Jesus himself started the Baptist movement. Similarly it is also possible to take the view that John ('John the Baptist') who started baptising adult believers some six months before he baptised Jesus was really the founder of the baptist church. Furthermore, as these individuals were carrying out God's will, then it could also be logically claimed that the actual founder of the baptist church was God. Although the bible record states that baptism is a fundamental part of Christianity, there is no record that the early believers called themselves 'Baptists' or the 'Baptist Church'. Nor are there any records in the early centuries of Christianity that the special term 'Baptist' was in any way ever applied to Christians. Many present day Baptists trace their religious roots to various devout Christian groups who practiced adult baptism, such as the Waldenses (about 1177). However the Waldenses were not called Baptists, nor did they call themselves Baptists. A more recent 'predecessor' of the Baptist movement would be the Anabaptists, but again, they were not called 'Baptists'. One person many consider to be the person most responsible for the development of the modern Baptist Church was John Smyth (1570-1612), an English ordained Anglican minister who broke from Anglicanism and established his own 'baptist' church in the Netherlands in 1608/1609. One member of that church, and baptised by John Smyth, was Thomas Helwys, who later returned to England and founded the first Baptist church there in 1612, in Spitalfields, London,. The congregation called themselves The General Baptists. For more information see Related Links below.
The Baptist religion falls under the religion of Christianity.
California Baptist University was founded in 1950.
I think that the Baptist religion, like many religions, can be found in more than half of the world's country. Churches of the Baptist religion, however, are mainly in the US.
I think she was baptized so.... (She's a baptist!)
John the Baptist founded no religious order.
no one found Dallas baptist university it was a baptist collage and since it is in Dallas they called Dallas baptist university
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