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Protestant Denominations

Information explaining the beliefs and differences of various Protestant sects.

 

Why Baptists Are Not Protestants

Why Baptists Are Not Protestants

by Vernon C. Lyons

 
Editor’s note: Baptists did not start with John Smyth in 1609 as Wikipedia and most publications claim. As Vernon Lyons will show, Baptists (and those Christians holding to Baptists tenets of faith) can trace their roots to the Church of the New Testament.
 
People are usually put in one of three religious groups. If you are not a Jew or a Roman Catholic, then automatically you are a Protestant.… Continue reading

Primitive Baptists – True Hyper-Calvinists

Primitive Baptists – True Hyper-Calvinists

 
This article is the result of several months of dialog with Primitive Baptists (also known as Hardshell Baptists) and a good deal of time spent reading their literature. The dialog primarily consisted of email correspondence with a particularly outspoken apologist for that sect along with some interaction with several people on a Facebook Primitive Baptist discussion forum. I read articles by Primitive Baptists and former Primitive Baptists and I listened to a number of… Continue reading

Who Or What Are Primitive Baptists?

Who Or What Are Primitive Baptists?

 
Primitive Baptists are a Christian sect (as in denomination) that believe they can trace their “roots” back to the first century New Testament Church.   They believe in election and predestination but they refuse to call themselves Calvinists because they feel that it identifies them with John Calvin and his doctrine, including things Calvin preached that they do not agree with.  They have beliefs in agreement with many protestants of our… Continue reading

Famous Calvinists Of The Past & Present

Famous Calvinists Of The Past & Present

(Teachers & Preachers Of The Bible Doctrines Of Election & Predestination)

 

directory list famous calvinists

 

Introduction

 
In this article we have catalogued the names of many famous Calvinists – Christians who believed and taught the five points of Calvinism, abbreviated as T.U.L.I.P. and also known as “The Doctrines Of Grace”. One important point we wish to make in this article is that all these godly and scholarly Bible teachers believed that what is known… Continue reading

Introduction To Protestantism

Introduction To Protestantism

 

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” [Ephesians 2:8-9]

 

famous leaders of the protestant reformation

 

Famous Leaders Of The Protestant Reformation

 

Introduction

 

It may appear to Catholics that Protestants don’t agree on anything and can’t be part of the true “Church” of Jesus Christ since they have formed so many denominations. However, this Catholic view of Protestantism is… Continue reading

Featured Gospel Message

Christ Died For The Ungodly

by Horatius Bonar

The divine testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner. God bears witness against him, not for him; and testifies that "there is none righteous, no, not one"; that there is "none that doeth good"; none "that understandeth"; none that even seeks after God, and, still more, none that loves Him (Psa. 14:1-3; Rom. 3:10-12). God speaks of man kindly, but severely; as one yearning over a lost child, yet as one who will make no terms with sin, and will "by no means clear the guilty." <continued>