Baptists.
In general, Baptists are evangelical Protestant Christians who hold to the authority of the Bible, the lordship of Jesus Christ, the independence of local congregations, the necessity of a conversion experience and a believer's baptism by immersion, and evangelism and missionary outreach. Most Baptists are at least mildly Calvinistic, but smaller groups uphold the theologically Arminian (freewill) position. The Baptist movement originated as a sect of dissenters in seventeenth-century England. The first Baptists emigrated to North America in the 1630s, settling mostly in ... ...
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