Question about Seventh-day Baptists and Free Will Baptists

[BobRyan]

Do Seventh-day Baptists and Free Will Baptists agree on the subject of "free will" and does this mean they do not hold to a Calvinist view of OSAS?

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So far - no one claiming to "Be" free will Baptist, or Seventh-day Baptist has posted on this thread.... 2022 02 03 (Y,M,D)

 

[JM]

The deviation from Baptist roots does not prove the rule. Baptists were Calvinistic before Free Will-ism entered the fray, this is a historical fact. Just because you can point to a poorly instructed congregation with poor leadership does not mean that is the rule. Arminian Freewill "Baptists" used pouring and sprinkling as a means for baptism, it wasn't until the Particular Calvinistic Baptists stressed full immersion that it was accepted by the Freewill'ers. Freewill Baptists were closer to Congregationalists in their practice - hence, historically speaking, Particular Baptists were the first modern Baptists. The heir to historic Baptists in North America is the SBC which uses a Calvinistic statement of faith distilled from the London Baptist Confession of Faith (1644, 1677 & 1689).

Check the historic Baptist Confessions to verity what I am posting.

Please post the website for the "Baptist" diocese please I would like to read their statement of faith.

I've pointed to historic landmarks of the faith that can easily be found online while you use anecdotals which is nothing but personal opinion based on limited observation.

 

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[actionsub]

Do Seventh-day Baptists and Free Will Baptists agree on the subject of "free will" and does this mean they do not hold to a Calvinist view of OSAS?

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So far - no one claiming to "Be" free will Baptist, or Seventh-day Baptist has posted on this thread.... 2022 02 03 (Y,M,D)

I was a Southern Baptist for many years. However, I studied at a General Baptist seminary (identical doctrine to Free Will Baptists).
I cannot speak for the Seventh Day Baptists, as their statement of faith does not address the idea of "free will" or OSAS.
As for the Free Will Baptists, as well as the similar General Baptists, they hold to a soteriological position called "Reformed Arminianism" that rejects OSAS. With regards to loss of salvation, it takes quite a long period of apostasy post-salvation to lose salvation; but once lost, it can never be regained.