May I add to this discussion. Does one need to hold to Covenant Theology to be Reformed? Reformed Baptists have always confused me on this as they are for sure Calvinist in their soteriology, but they are credo, and in some cases dispensationalists. Can someone hold to credobaptism and still be a CT? I know some refers John MacArthur as a Reformed Baptist, but he is a dispensationalist. The Standards, except for the Baptist London Standard, teach paedo and CT, so I wonder how much of the standards does one really need to affirm in order to be Reformed - in the classical sense?

John Chaney

"having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith . . ." Colossians 2:7