The Baptist Church: The Unscriptural Organization

By Mike Willis As we continue to consider the Baptist Church, we also need to study the pattern of organization which is found in the New Testament to contrast it with the present organization of the Baptist Churches in America. By so doing, I shall demonstrate that the Baptist Church cannot be the church of the …

The Baptist Church: Its Various Sects

By Larry Ray Hafley There are scores of Baptist vines, each of which produces its own particular fruit and flavor. As has been established in this series of essays, Baptist branches are not of New Testament stock. Their root is not in the ground of Christ; their seed it not of the word of God; their …

The Baptist Church: Its Doctrine of Succession

By Jady W. Copeland On the subject of a direct line of churches from apostolic times, Baptists are divided. Thomas Armitage, Baptist historian, denies it. Generally speaking the Landmark Baptists admit it and many of them say it is essential to sound doctrine. Bob L. Ross in Old Landmarkism And The Baptists tells of four positions …

Interesting Statements From A Baptist History Book

By Bill Lavender “A Short History Of The Baptists” by Henry C. Vedder, printed by “The American Baptist Publication Society,” Philadelphia, 1892, has undergone many printings since, but is little known and little read among Baptists. Vedder was a faithful Baptist, but many Baptists did not like the truth he told about their history. A few …