The Baptist Standard. (News Notes).
The Baptist Baptist
Member of a group of Protestant Christians who hold that only adult believers should be baptized and that it must be done by immersion. During the 17th century two groups of Baptists emerged in England: General Baptists, who held that Christ's atonement applied to Standard, state paper for Texas Baptists Baptists, denomination of Protestant Christians holding a distinctive belief with regard to the ordinance of baptism. Since 1644 the name has been applied to those who maintain that baptism should be administered to none but believers and that immersion is the only , carried two
significant series of heritage-related articles in its November November: see month. and
December 1999 issues. The series "The 20th Century in Review: One
Bite at a Time" focused each article around a decade of Texas
Baptist Life. The second series was titled "The 10 Most influential
Texas Baptists of the 20th Century."
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