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What Baptists Have Traditionally Believed about Repentance
How did fundamental Baptists get to this point? To claim that thousands are being saved when there is no evidence whatsoever in the majority of the lives is confusion. This is not what fundamental Baptists believed and practiced in the past.
John the Baptist
It is plain that the first “Baptist,” the one named John, did not practice any sort of Quick Prayerism. He preached repentance and demanded evidence thereof:
“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. . . . But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance” (Matt. 3:1,2, 7, 8).
The Apostolic Churches
It is also plain that the Lord’s apostles and the first churches did not slight repentance. Peter demanded repentance on the day of Pentecost: “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38). In his second epistle, Peter described salvation as coming “to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
Paul, too, preached repentance to the unsaved pagans of his day. “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but
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