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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Baptist Church: Its Origin
By J.F. Dancer, Jr. The issue of Guardian of Truth is devoted to a study of the Baptist Church. It is the aim of this article to see when this church came into existence. This is to be done by a study of history. Inspired history (the New Testament) does not mention such a church by …