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What Primitive Baptists Believe

What is the basic difference between Primitive Baptist

    The basic difference is that Primitive Baptists believe in salvation by grace alone.  There are only two positions that a person can occupy on this matter.  One is that salvation is by grace, and the other is that salvation is by works.  It cannot be a combination of the two.  A person may say that he believes in salvation by grace, but if he sets forth any act of man's will such as repentance, faith, baptism or hearing the gospel as a condition for obtaining it, then this position must be put on the works side.  Primitive Baptists believe that salvation is of the Lord, that it is by His grace, and that nothing needs to be added to it.  Grace is the unmerited (not earned) favor of God.  If anything is done to receive grace, it is no longer grace. (Romans 11;6)

What do Primitive Baptists believe about the fall of man?

    That Adam willfully transgressed the law of God and therefore plunged himself and his posterity into a state of guilt and corruption (Romans 5:12-19).  That man in his natural state is dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians :1) and is unable to recover himself by an act of his own "Freewill" (John 1:12-13, 6:44; Romans 3:10-20, 9:16)

How do Primitive Baptists support their view on unconditional election?

    They believe that Ephesians chapter one plainly teaches that before the foundation of the world, God, according to His own sovereign pleasure, elected a people to eternal salvation and made all of the arrangements necessary for them to live with Him in glory.

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