This article on Does the Church Need the Creeds? was published by Founders Ministries.
The Baptists rejected magisterial church polity because of what Scripture taught, and they affirmed the historic creeds for the same reason. The historic Baptist view is “The creedal baby must not be discarded with its ecclesial bathwater.”[18] Baptists today must hold the same conviction.
We are called to minister to a generation convinced of an individual’s ability to construe reality however they see fit. So, the danger of misconstruing the fundamental pillars of Christian faith is as present today as it was in earlier centuries.
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