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When you study the history of the church, it is seen that it begins at the beginning of the fifteenth century in the early seventeenth century, as a church at first essentially involved with a slightly Arminian doctrine, although we cannot regard it as Arminianism today, because Arminianism itself did not form as it is today, with all its consciousness as it is today at that time. They were called General Baptists because they believed in some kind of general or limitless atonement. And an interesting point is that these Baptists had a lot of flaws and a lot of peculiarities, believed, for example, in inbreeding, where they married only members of the local church itself, in the 20 member churches, only among these 20 members were married, were against building construction and were activists. The first Baptists in history were all baptized by spraying.
- After a few decades.
- Very few decades.
- Before the mid-17th century.
- Some Baptists questioned the question of general atonement in particular and began to believe in the subject of limited atonement or private atonement.
- So they began to be called private.
- Baptists.
- Or reformed Baptists.
- Or reformed Baptists.
- As they were then Baptists because they believed that baptism should be performed after the profession of faith and not after the profession of faith after baptism.
- Because at that time baptism could occur from birth or at any time in childhood and the profession of faith was a future attitude; then.
- First.
- The person repents.
- Believes.
- Confesses.
- Has his profession of faith.
- And then be baptized; thus.
- In the first half of the seventeenth century.
- These were born private Baptists.
- Who would be Baptists reformed today.
- With those who would be Armenian Baptists today.
- Although these terms are not as well defined as they are today.
The fact is that at the turn of the century, when they entered the 18th century, these General Baptists practically disappeared, and by the end of the 18th century there was no longer a General Baptist, or “Arminian” Baptist church, as is thought today. For the simple fact that they were against the construction of places, they met only in the houses, they also began to have problems with other Baptists who believed that immersion was important, although it was not an essential point, the main thing was Water and the Trinity, but the amount of water they were discussing, but it was the Reformed Baptists who started baptizing by immersion, so they started having problems with that, they also had problems with other problems at that time.
They began to cease to exist out of insanguinity, for example, because they can only marry people from the local church, the same address, the same house, less than 100 years later, have ceased to exist. line that these retired or private Baptists gave birth to virtually every other Baptist church in England, those pilgrim parents who went to North America and founded the Baptist Church and Baptist tradition there, who came to Brazil and other parts of the world.
They have a reformed historical past, so much so that the profession of faith they adopt in the United States is the result of this 1689 confession of faith that was composed in England by this group of private or reformed Baptists. When they arrived in Brazil, We saw the same thing, the Baptist confession adopted here was the confession of faith that was adopted in the United States, the New Hampshire Baptist confession of faith, which was adopted here and received until a few decades ago, when it was replaced by the doctrinal declaration of the convention. Brazilian Baptist, who still has some of these remains, but with some shots of what would be a kind of Arminianism, being defended, or received and embraced by both groups.
There are pensioners who say that it is reformed, Arminians who fully call themselves Arminians, but it is doubtful, and that everyone will put the sardines on their side in this regard, but historically we have not found any. Today’s Baptist church that is heir to those churches that started there, all the churches that exist today are in a way the heiresses of the reformed Baptist churches of the seventeenth century, now we live a real mixture of everything, you ask me. about reformed Baptists and Arminians, but today we find members of the Baptist Church who are Pentecostal, others who are neopentecosal, who are theologically liberal or almost atheist in the sense that they believe in the Word.
So today you find everything, then it is very difficult for you to define that the church is this or that, it is reformed, or that is all. Also Presbyterians, although in theory they define themselves as retired, but in practice you do not find it in most churches, as well as in Assemblies, which are defined as Pentecostal and some historical points, but if you start to visit Some churches, you realize that there is a big difference between them, so in the Baptist world it is the same, that’s why I prefer it rather than define it today, because today you find everything, try to look a little at our history and see Who Were these men God used to lay the theological foundation, like Benjamin Keach, John Bunyam, Hanserd Knollys, and so many others that God used there in the 17th century to support what is now called the Baptist Church?
With these men the foundations were laid, and today all that is recognized is recognized, and it all started with men who were reformed, who loved the Word of God, who returned to the Scriptures in every way, also in this way. reformed, and which gave birth to all the churches today.
By: Wilson Porte. © Return to the Gospel. Website: voltemosaoevangelho. com All rights are reserved. Original: Are all Baptists Arminian? EV interview with Wilson Porte