The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum faith in Jesus verse faith of Jesus

Yes, we are somewhat familiar with the "Primitive Baptists" because we have had one or two here on the Board a few years back. One, in particular, rejected the Nicene Creed's use of "begotten" in reference to the Son of God. He insisted that this word was inextricably linked to Platonist philosophy and thus made the Son "created" and not eternal. We labored to explain to him from linguistics as well as Scripture and the word "begotten" had nothing to do with "generation", i.e., birth from, but rather a place of exaltation.

Secondly, he held that the 'imago dei', image of God, was totally absent in all who were not regenerate, i.e., they were on the same level as non-human animals.

This is NOT to say that all Primitive Baptists hold to the same views as this one person and his local church. Doubtless there are others who hold to the same errors, but there are surely those who would reject them as strongly as we do.