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    Southern Baptist Convention's Belief Systems

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    In seven pages this paper discusses the belief system based upon 'that is not really right, or correct, or certainly what I believe' within the context of the Southern Baptist Convention. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    stated doctrine. Bibliography lists 6 sources. BBsbapts SBC: The Southern Baptist Convention  Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., July 2001 Introduction Examining any specific belief system is a challenge, as one is confronted with the verbal response of "that  is not really right, or correct, or certainly what I believe." Therefore this discussion of the Southern Baptist Convention will look at what is written and the response that  is given to that stated doctrine. Origins Linking itself to the times of the Protestant Reformation, Baptists first appeared in the New World in 1639 through the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  Their own religious colony later appeared in Rhode Island. In 1682, William Screven moved the Baptist church into Maine. This church is important, according to Cowan (2000)  "because in 1696 Screven and most of the Maine church moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and formed the first Baptist church in the American South." According to its own web  page, The Southern Baptist Convention is both a religious title, and the name of its annual meeting. " Since its organization in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, the Southern Baptist  Convention (SBC) has grown to 15.8 million members who worship in more than 40,000 churches in the United States. Southern Baptists sponsor about 5,000 home missionaries serving the United States,  Canada, Guam and the Caribbean, as well as sponsoring more than 4,000 foreign missionaries in 126 nations of the world." Recent History On June 14th, 2000, the Southern Baptist Convention  adopted a revised summary of their faith. The committees report says in part: "Baptists cherish and defend religious liberty, and deny the right of any secular or religious 

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