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Baptists

Baptists

3.9
Christians who put adult believers fully into water to show their faith
  • noun
  • /ˈbæptɪsts/
translation icon : bautistas
  • And Reverend Huffman was a Baptist minister in Cape Girardeau, MO, and he lives on Main Street.

Like was were we born Baptist or like, did we choose it?

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Examples

  • My son-in-law comes from Mississippi, a Baptist minister family in Mississippi.

  • The RLTF is here to defend the freedom of people of all faiths, Steven, from Methodists to Baptists to Orthodox Episcopalians.

  • But I mean, I was brought up as a Baptist Christian.

  • And as a Baptist, you know, and so I always felt I had a special connection to God.

  • But we grew up Baptist, right?

  • And this is this crisis moment is something that many Baptists then and now see as a necessary part of true religious commitment.

  • I was raised as a Christian Reformed Baptist, and I still believe in God.

  • Many Baptists believe in the practice of full immersion during baptism.

  • As a member of the Baptists, she participates in church activities regularly.

  • The community of Baptists gathered to celebrate their annual festival last weekend.

Synonyms

Southern Baptist
vsBaptists
21 4.8

A person who belongs to a large Christian church group in the United States called the Southern Baptist Convention

is the whole movement defined by believer immersion, not one region
Protestant
vsBaptists
15 4.0

The group of Christian churches that broke away from the Catholic Church

is a specific evangelical subset defined mainly by believer immersion practice
Baptist
vsBaptists
12 4.0

A Christian who fully puts believers under water to show their faith

is the general group of such believers rather than one individual type
Dunker
vsBaptists
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A member of a Christian group that baptizes people by putting them fully under water

is the wider evangelical group sharing believer immersion across many branches
Northern Baptist
vsBaptists
  • US
6.0

A person who belongs to the American Baptist Churches, a Baptist church group from the northern United States

is the broader set of groups united by believer baptism practice
General Baptist
vsBaptists
7.3

A person in a Baptist church who believes people have free will and Jesus died for everyone

focuses on believer immersion rather than on doctrines of predestination
Arminian Baptist
vsBaptists
9.3

A member of a Baptist church that teaches people can choose to be saved

centres on adult believer immersion rather than particular salvation views
Particular Baptist
vsBaptists
8.8

A Baptist who believes God decides who will be saved and that Christ died for some people

is defined by believer immersion rather than specific Calvinist theology
Calvinistic Baptist
vsBaptists
8.9

A member of a Baptist church who believes God chooses who will be saved

focuses on baptism by believers rather than on Calvinist predestination

Surface Forms

Baptists plural
Baptist singular

Morphology

Baptists = Baptist (transparent) = baptist + s

The plural suffix '-s' is a regular inflection forming the plural of the denomination name.

Etymology

Baptists comes from the Greek root baptizein, which means 'to dip' or 'immerse'. So Baptists are people who practise baptism by putting someone fully into water.