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'''Baptists hold the [[church]] to be both local and visible.''' | '''Baptists hold the [[church]] to be both local and visible.''' | ||
We totally reject the false doctrine of the universal invisible church | |||
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states that "The Spirit forms the [[church]] | states that "The Spirit forms the [[church]] | ||
by baptizing all believers into the | by baptizing all believers into the [[Body of Christ]]." | ||
Latest revision as of 19:50, 23 September 2023
Baptists hold the church to be both local and visible.
We totally reject the false doctrine of the universal invisible church
See Bride of Christ
One view was promoted to popularity
by C I Scofield in his Scofield reference Bible
states that "The Spirit forms the church
by baptizing all believers into the Body of Christ."
He further states the church
to be "composed of the whole number of regenerate persons
from Pentecost to the first resurrection,
united together and to Christ
by the baptism with the Holy Spirit."
This is the popular view held by most Protestant churches.
Another view, not as widely held,
is that of the "church
consisting of all the redeemed in all ages."
From these two views
we understand the church to be universal and invisible.
Baptists, in opposition,
hold the church to be both local and visible.
