What We Believe"What is the Baptist faith as different from other Protestant denominations, and what are the goals of a Baptist?" I asked. "We are evangelicals: we are Bible-oriented; we are conservatives. We’re not radical Fundamentalists. We are conservatives, and we are Biblically-oriented in our teachings. We accept the Bible from Genesis to Revelation as, in fact, God’s holy Word — the revealed Word of God — and that’s where it all begins. We believe in the Virgin birth; we believe in the miraculous conception; and we believe in the Trinity. By Trinity I mean that we believe God exists in three persons — the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. "Secondly, we are called Baptists because we are members of a Protestant denomination which holds that baptism should be given only to believers after their confession of faith. And that baptism should be given by immersion, not sprinkling." Reverend Pelletier smiled and paused. "Well, there’s more to it than that, but we got the name ‘Baptists’ because we considered ourselves Biblical Christians, baptizing by the method of immersion as in the Bible. Actually, the word baptism originally meant immersion." |
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