Baptist Faith & Message Handout

Creeds, Confessions and the Scriptures

What are creeds and confessions?

Creeds are historic, helpful and good.

Baptists are people of deep beliefs. From the very beginning of the Baptist movement, Baptist churches and associations of churches have adopted statements of belief to teach, defend, and perpetuate the faith. These statements, most commonly known as confessions of faith, are intended to clarify and publish the most basic beliefs that frame our faith, our witness, and our worship. In the beginning years of the organized Baptist movement, theses statements were often intended to demonstrate that Baptists were fully orthodox as Christian believers. Later, such statements were used to establish identity, confront false teaching, and instruct Christians in the faith.

The Scriptures are the Word of God.

The Word of God is:

A person.

God speaking ________.

God speaking ________ to Man.

God speaking ________ through _____.

4 philosophies that guard the doctrine of Scripture are:

Authority

Inerrancy

Clarity

Necessity

 Charles H. Spurgeon said, “This Volume is the writing of the living God…everywhere I find God speaking: it is God’s voice, not man’s; the words are God’s words, the words of the Eternal, the Invisible, the Almighty, the Jehovah of this earth. The Bible is God’s Bible; and when I see it, I seem to hear a voice springing up from it, saying, ‘I am the book of God: man, read me!”