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HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH ..
Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of America, organized in 1638.
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Founder John Smith
Origin Netherlands, 17th century
Number of members Approximately 125 million.
3 723 853 members in Brazil (according to the 2010 census)
Number of churches 6,000 churches in Brazil
The Baptist Churches are a Protestant denomination of English origin, which arose in Holland in the early seventeenth century. Baptist churches interpret baptism - immersing in water - as a biblical and public exposition of their faith. The denomination historically is linked to the English dissidents, or movements of anticonformismo of century XVI. The Baptist movement emerged in the English colony of Holland at a time of intense religious reform.1
Baptists are historical Protestants. Most Baptist churches choose to associate with groups that provide uncontrolled support. Major Baptist association is the Southern Baptist Convention of the United States, but there are many other Baptist associations in the world. In Brazil, the largest are the Brazilian Baptist Convention and the National Baptist Convention.
The Baptist churches form a Protestant denominational family of English origin.
1 Name
2 History
2.1 Origin
2.2 Worldwide expansion
2.3 Baptist Churches in Brazil
2.4 Baptist Associations in Brazil
2.5 Baptists in Portugal
2.6 Baptists in other Portuguese-speaking countries
3 Doctrine
4 Organization
5 External links
6 External links
Name
The term Baptist comes from the Greek word (Baptist, "Baptist," also describes John the Baptist), which is related to the verb (baptize, "baptize, wash, dip, immerse"), to "the baptized," John the Baptist. As a first name it was used in Europe as well as Baptiste, Jan-Baptiste, Jean-Baptiste, John Baptist. And in Holland, often in combinations like Jan Baptiste or Johannes Baptiste. It was used as a surname. Other commonly used variations are Baptiste, Baptista, Battiste, Battista. Anabaptists in England were called Baptists in 1569.1
History
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The academically accepted history of the origin of the Baptist Churches is their emergence as a group of English dissidents in the seventeenth century. The first Baptist church was born when a group of English refugees who went to Holland in search of religious freedom in 1608, led by John Smyth, a clergyman and Thomas Helwys, a lawyer, organized in Amsterdam in 1609 a church of Baptist doctrines. John Smyth disagreed with the policy and some points of the doctrine of the Anglican Church of which he was a pastor after approaching the Mennonites and, upon examining the Bible, believed in the necessity of being baptized with conscience and then baptized the other founders of the church, thus becoming the first organized Baptist church. Until then, baptism was not by immersion, only private Baptists, around 1642, officially adopted this practice becoming common afterwards to all Baptists. The first private confession, the London Confession of 1644, was also the first to defend immersion in baptism.
After the death of John Smyth and the decision of Thomas Helwys and his followers to return to England, the church organized in Holland was broken up and part of its members united with the Mennonites. Thomas Helwys organized the Baptist Church at Spitalfields on the outskirts of London in 1612. The persecution of Baptists and other English dissidents led many to emigrate. The most famous was John Bunyan, who wrote his masterpiece The Pilgrim while he was in prison. In the United States, the first Baptist church was born through Roger Williams, who organized First Baptist Church of Providence in 1639, in the colony he founded under the name Rhode Island, and John Clark who organized the Newport Baptist Church, also in Rhode Island in 1648. In American lands the Baptists grew mainly in the south, where today its main denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has almost 15 million members, being the largest Protestant church in the United States.
Baptist Church in the interior of the State of New York.
There are still other theories about the origin of the Baptists, but they are rejected by the official historiography. They are the theory of Apostolic Succession, or JJJ (John - Jordan - Jerusalem) and Anabaptist theory. Both are rejected by Baptist historians Henry C. Vedder and Robert G. Torbet. The theory of apostolic succession postulates that the present Baptists are descended from John the Baptist and that the church continued through a succession of churches (or groups) that baptized only adults, such as Montanists, Novacians, Donatists, Paulites, Bogomils, Albigenses and Cathars, Waldensians and Anabaptists. Baptist pathologists use this view to proclaim themselves the only church
