Agreed. But is it accurate and truthful?
I have always said that calling ones self 'Reformed
Baptist' is not calling oneself 'Reformed.' In the term 'Reformed Baptist,' 'Reformed' is modifying the word Baptist. So in that sense, yes! It is absolutely accurate and truthful. Among all the different kinds of Baptists out there (Independent, Free Will, Seventh Day, Southern, etc.) we are the Baptists that adhere most closely to the cornerstone doctrines of the Reformation.
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Agreed. But is it accurate and truthful?
I have always said that calling ones self 'Reformed
Baptist' is not calling oneself 'Reformed.' In the term 'Reformed Baptist,' 'Reformed' is modifying the word Baptist. So in that sense, yes! It is absolutely accurate and truthful. Among all the different kinds of Baptists out there (Independent, Free Will, Seventh Day, Southern, etc.) we are the Baptists that adhere most closely to the cornerstone doctrines of the Reformation.[/QUOTE]
This gets at the issue and clarifies it in a helpful way. Many baptists object to being called protestant because they see it as baptists were not reforming from rome...they were always seperate from them. Some of those baptistic groups were not as solid biblically as we would like to see them be...and then we have the anabaptists.
So....we are greatful to God for the reformers and the reformation.Yet we see believers baptism as biblical.Those who want to maintain strict historical boundries are not wrong,and yet those who identify with the particular baptists and the reformers also are a distinct group in our day.
Biblical Presbyterians are defending their historic roots.Reformed Baptists ,other than looking to and claiming the Apostles as examples....have a more nuanced and contrversial historical trail to maneuver through. While we defend believers baptism historically, we can read John Knox against anabaptists and agree with most of what he wrote.
Among baptists today as Pastor Sheffield points out here...there are marked differences. The term Reformed Baptist says alot very quickly and has a distinct identity. No one is trying to steal the label from the Christian Reformed churches or the Presbyterians.
It is an accurate term for us.