Thursday, June 29, 2006

Baptistic Creeds

[This is also from yesterdays Al Mohler program cited two posts ago:)]

The origin of some contemporary Confessions.
(1) Westminster Confession of Faith 1646
(2) 1689 London Baptist Confession: Strictly Reformed derivitive of the Westminster Confession. [Generally adapted to meet baptistic convictions regarding government and baptism]
(3) Philadelphia Confession 1742[adapted for purposes of language and structure...not content]
(4) The Centennial Confession [basically the Philly confession only the 100 year anniversary of it, also, updates for language and structure...not content]
(5) Charleston Confession 1813[based off of the Centenniel Confession, updates for language and structure...not content]
(6) [Current] Southern Baptist Confession is based on the Charleston confession [updates for language and structure...not content]

same starting point, but an offshoot in that the Philly Confession isn't in this lineage...
(1) Westminster Confession of Faith
(2) 1689 Baptist Confession: Strictly Reformed derivitive of the Westminster Confession.
(3) New Hampshire Confession 1833[less explicitly Reformed and Calvinistic although it is not Arminian.]
(4) Baptist Faith and Message of 1925 & 1963[based off of the New Hampshire Confessions, updates for language and structure...not content...this was the Southern Baptist Convention's first confession. Once again this was less overt and less strictly Calvinistic although it wasn't anti-Calvinistic.]
(5) 1992 Southern Baptist Confession of faith

There might be some problems with this, but once again...I'm just trying to understand all of this:)

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