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Originally Posted by satz  Just a thought:
Due to their views regarding church government - I believe most baptists would not admit that there is even such a thing as The Church', but rather that there were churches thoughout history. Doesn't it logically follow that a baptist would not hold the LBCF in the same regard as a presbyterian would hold the WCF?
It seems for a baptist the LBCF would have been just the result of a bunch of godly men getting together. There would be nothing particularly 'special' about that gathering to make it any different from if we were to get some faithful, godly baptist pastors to come together to discuss theology today. | It is Landmark Baptists that deny such a thing as the universal church. The LBCF, the Abstract of Principles and the Baptist Faith and Message all affirm the idea of a universal church.
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Chris Poe
Mandeville, LA
"There are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it--the lunatic fringe in all reform movements." Theodore Roosevelt
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