Baptist Briders Are Missing Much by Not Honoring the Reformation
It's true that some Baptists don't consider themselves as Protestants. The doctrines of Scripture alone, grace alone, faith alone, in Christ alone, and glory to God alone were affirmed by Scriptures themselves way before the Reformation. It was said that Baptists were called Baptists because they baptized people by immersion and told them that the Catholic infant baptism was unscriptural. It didn't take a Martin Luther to rise up and affirm the five Solas. Before that, we already had some pre-Reformation Christian groups which may have included earlier Baptists. However, the lack of successionism may have given way to Baptists becoming Protestants because we have the Reformed Baptist groups. However, we do have a stubborn bunch called the Baptist Briders. The Baptist Bride doctrine teaches that the Baptist Church is supposedly the only Bride of Christ. They would teach that non-Baptist Christians are supposedly part of the family but not part of the Bride. They have the s...