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:
“There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect the general illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“[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)