General Baptists

General Baptists are Baptists who hold the view of a general atonement, as well as a specific name of groups of Baptists within the broader category.

General Baptists are distinguished from Particular or Reformed Baptists.

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or baptists:

    “A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
    —Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)

    “[T]he Congregational minister in a neighboring town definitely stated that ‘the same spirit which drove the herd of swine into the sea drove the Baptists into the water, and that they were hurried along by the devil until the rite was performed.’”
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)