Midterm Exam Flashcards
What are the 3 questions to lay the foundation for understanding our Baptist History?
1) What or Who is a Baptist?
2) Why study Baptist history?
3) How should we view Baptist History?
What is a Baptist according to a secular definition?
One who focuses on baptism by immersion as the primary distinctive
What is a Baptist according to the Theological definition?
One who focuses on several distinctive doctrines, such as autonomy, church ordinances, regenerated church membership, priesthood of the believer, immersion, and etc.
What is the holding to a set of beliefs (doctrines), not simply immersion?
The key to being “Baptist”
What are the 4 reasons we study Baptist History?
1) To be informed about our heritage
2) To be encouraged by seeing God’s hand upon His churches and in Human affairs
3) To be reminded of the importance of truth
4) To learn from the examples of others
Did the “Baptist” named themselves?
No, it was a name given to them by their opponents (because they rejected infant baptism - advocated for believer’s baptism only)
What are the 3 approaches to Baptist History?
1) The Reformation movement
2) Church Successionism
3) The Free Church through the ages
What views Baptist as an off-shoot of the Protestant Reformation, meaning that Baptist are “Protestants”
The Reformation movement
What sees Baptists as an exact succession of churches from the N.T., to the present; and unbroken line of “true” churches?
Church successionism
What are the 4 other names for church successionism?
1) Landmarkism
2) Church perpetuity
3) Church primogeniture
4) Baptist bride
What approach believes that God has consistently preserved His church to testify of His truth through the ages?
The Free Church through ages
T/F The “free church history” is more a succession of doctrines and principles than an unspoken chain of churches?
True
T/F The unity of Christianity is just founded in the visible tracing of any one set of people?
False
What does the “B” stand for in Baptist distinctives?
Biblical Authority
What does the “A” stand for in Baptist distinctives?
Autonomy of the Local Church
T/F The Bible is not only and sufficient authority for what the church/believers believe and practice?
False
Scriptures teaching on the Bible’s origin results in what?
Full Authority on the Bible
Scriptures teaching on the Bible’s correctness results in what?
Its inerrancy, infallibility, and preservability
Scriptures teaching on the Bible’s sufficiency results in what?
Sole Authority of the Bible
What are the 3 applications we learned from Biblical Authority?
1) The Bible bears the absolute authority of God himself
2) The Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice
3) No human opinion, council, or decree of any church or group can override the Bible
What are the 2 dangers to avoid when referencing Biblical Authority?
1) Beware of confusing traditional with Biblical
2) Distinguish between Biblical mandate and example
What are the 4 Ps under faith and Practice?
1) Precepts
2) Principles
3) Precedents
4) Perspectives
What is it when the local church is independent from any outside human control, or directives?
Statement of the Doctrine under the Autonomy of the Local Church
What is the definition of “Auto”?
self
What is the definition of “Nomos”?
law
What is the definition of “Autonomy”?
Self-governing
T/F Each local church is “self-governing” without any denominational hierarchy or control?
True
What are the 4 scriptural teachings about the autonomy of the church?
1) Christ alone is the Head of the Church
2) The local church is independent of outside human control
3) Christ is the Bridegroom
4) Christ is the Cornerstone and Foundation
What passage shows the church to select her own officers?
Acts 6:1-7
What passage shows the church to send her own missionaries?
Acts 13:1-4
What 3 passages have the final authority for church discipline?
1) Matthew 18:15-17
2) 1 Corinthians 5:1-5
3) 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15
What passage says that Christ is the Lord of the church/churches?
Revelation 2-3
What passages teach the Bible’s origin?
1) 2 Timothy 3:16
2) 2 Peter 1:19-21
What passage teaches the Bible’s correctness?
John 10:35
What passages teach the Bible’s sufficiency?
1) 2 Timothy 3:15-17
2) 2 Peter 1:4
What passages of scripture teach the absolute authority of God himself?
1) 1 Thessalonians 2:13
2) 1 Corinthians 14:37
3) 2 Timothy 3:16-17
What group prospered in Southern France, Northern Italy, and Northern Spain?
Albigeneses
What are the 5 things that described the Albigenses?
1) Dualists and Manicheans (influenced by Mani)
2) They rejected the established church and its trappings
3) They personally separated, avoiding places like dances and taverns
4) They were strong on Christian education and on learning how to read
5) Believed in putting the Bible in the language of the common man
What group emphasized the authority of Scripture, salvation by grace alone, baptism after faith (no infants), denied transubstantiation and purgatory?
The Waldensians
What group spoke out against images, pilgrimages, purgatory, and crosses?
The Lollards
What group taught salvation by grace alone and the separation of church and state, and the Bible not the Pope was the Supreme authority?
Bohemian Brethren
