The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

Crandall is operated by the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches.

* 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

In this view, the Lamb of God references and other hallmarks of Revelation are linked to what is known of John the Baptist, though it must be confessed that little information about him is known.

The memorial is within walking distance of other historic sites including the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, the Alabama State Capitol, the Alabama Department of Archives and History and the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.

Held by many Protestant groups who take what they believe is a more literal interpretation of the Bible, including many, but not most, Pentecostal Charismatic and Baptist churches and Independent and ' Non-denominational ' churches as well as a few of the Presbyterian Church and Wesleyan / Methodist churches.

" However, some U. S .- led Baptist and other fundamentalist denominations still believe it is their duty to engage in what they refer to as outreach to " unbelieving " Jews.

According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine: As such, according to one viewpoint, for those who " belong to the Church ," the term Methodist Catholic, or Presbyterian Catholic, or Baptist Catholic, is as proper as the term Roman Catholic.

The bread and " fruit of the vine " indicated in Matthew, Mark and Luke as the elements of the Lord's Supper are interpreted by many Baptists as unleavened bread ( although leavened bread is often used ) and, in line with the historical stance of some Baptist groups ( since the mid-19th century ) against partaking of alcoholic beverages, grape juice, which they commonly refer to simply as " the Cup ".

Confessional Baptists believe in pneumatic presence, which is expressed in the Second London Baptist Confession, specifically in Chapter 30, Articles 3 and 7:

This view is prevalent amongst Reformed Baptists, those in the Founders movement ( a Calvinistic movement within the Southern Baptist Convention ), some Primitive Baptists, Strict Baptists, and several individuals in other Baptist associations.

It is rare to find a Baptist church where The Lord's Supper is observed every Sunday ; most observe monthly or quarterly, with some holding Communion only during a designated Communion service or following a worship service.

Exclusive use of unfermented grape juice is common in the Churches of Christ, Baptist churches, and other independent Protestant churches.

The evangelist divides history into three stages: the first ends with John the Baptist, the second consists of Jesus ' earthly ministry, and the third is the life of the church after Jesus ' resurrection.

There is a broad disagreement over chronology between Matthew, Mark and Luke on one hand and John on the other: all four agree that Jesus ' public ministry began with an encounter with John the Baptist, but Matthew, Mark and Luke follow this with an account of teaching and healing in Galilee, then a trip to Jerusalem where there is an incident in the Temple, climaxing with the crucifixion on the day of the Passover holiday.

John's account of the Baptist is different from that of the synoptic gospels.

John is not called " the Baptist.

In the Christian New Testament, Matthew 3: 4, John the Baptist is said to have lived for a long period of time in the wilderness on a diet consisting of locusts and wild honey.

The name of the country comes from the Jordan River, which is significant to Christians because it was the place where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.

While this passage is the only reference to John the Baptist outside the New Testament, it is widely seen by most scholars as confirming the historicity of the baptisms that John performed.

After lying in state in the rotunda of the State House in Columbia, his body was carried by a caisson to the First Baptist Church for services, where then-Senator Joe Biden delivered a eulogy, and later to the family burial plot in Willowbrook Cemetery in Edgefield, where he was interred.

* Billy McCormack ( 1928-2012 ), Baptist pastor from Shreveport, director and vice president of the Christian Coalition of America, was born in Bienville Parish and is interred at Providence Cemetery in Ringgold.

Most of those interred at the cemetery were of the Baptist faith.

Keith, Josiah, and Bethany Green are interred at Garden Valley Cemetery behind the Garden Valley Baptist Church, less than a half-mile from the LDM property.

His funeral took place at Antioch Second Baptist Church, and he was interred at Mount Lawn Cemetery, Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania.

" Johnston was interred in a cemetery at Barkers Creek Baptist Church, where he attended Sunday services during his boyhood years, near Honea Path, South Carolina.

Johnson's fat hand, another bottle were protruding from the truck cab, and that self-proclaimed Baptist teetotaler, had a bottle at his own lips.

The Rev. Melvin Carter officiated at the ceremony in Slaughter Chapel of the First Baptist Church.

Beginning at least as far back as 1789 various Baptist bodies condemned slavery.

Acadia University, established at Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1838 has a strong Baptist religious affiliation.

Brown owes its founding to the support of learning among a Baptist Church association but in 1762, the Baptist Minister Morgan Edwards was at first ridiculed for suggesting the founding of a college.

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

Holly's funeral was held on February 7, 1959, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock.

Theodosius I founded the Church of John the Baptist to house the skull of the saint ( today preserved at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the Forum of Taurus, and turned the ruined temple of Aphrodite into a coach house for the Praetorian Prefect ; Arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the Mese, near the walls of Constantine.

Bannister died of a heart attack in 1901 while attending a prayer meeting at his church, Elmwood Avenue Free Baptist Church.

In this view, Luke might have originally started at 3: 1, with John the Baptist.

The Baptist recognizes Jesus secretly in Matthew, and not at all in Mark or Luke.

James Dunn states that the accounts of Josephus and the New Testament regarding John the Baptist are closer than they may appear at a first reading.

* In 1938, Oklahoma Baptist University awarded Hoover an honorary doctorate during commencement exercises at which he spoke.

The first excavation at Tell as-Sultan was carried out in 1867, and the monasteries of St. George of Koziba and John the Baptist were refounded and completed in 1901 and 1904, respectively.

The burial-place of John the Baptist was at Sebaste in Samaria, and mention is made of his relics being honored there around the middle of the 4th century.

A crypt and relics said to be John's and mentioned in 11th and 16th century manuscripts, were discovered in 1969 during restoration of the Church of St. Macarius at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt ; Additional relics are claimed to reside in Gandzasar Monastery's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Nagorno Karabakh ;

In 1956, at age 22, Falwell founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, where he served as pastor.

One unusual link between Falwell and Conservative rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a Navy chaplain, was created when President Ronald Reagan surprised the participants at Falwell's " Baptist Fundamentalism ' 84 " convention in Washington, D. C., by choosing to read Resnicoff's on-site report of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing as his keynote address.

In October 1999 Falwell hosted a meeting of 200 evangelicals with 200 homosexuals at Thomas Road Baptist Church for an " Anti-Violence Forum ", during which he acknowledged that some American evangelicals ' comments about homosexuality entered the realm of hate speech that could incite violence.

Edgar Saltus's historical fiction novel Mary Magdalene: A Chronicle ( 1891 ) depicts her as a heroine living in a castle at Magdala, who moves to Rome becoming the " toast of the tetrarchy ", telling John The Baptist she will " drink pearls ... sup on peacock's tongues.

* St. Paul Baptist Church-Founded in 1867 by former slave Elijah Barnes, registered at the state and federal level as the second oldest African American Baptist Church in the state.

* 1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States

The young Son House was determined to become a Baptist preacher, and at age 15 began his preaching career.