General Baptists are Baptists who hold the view of a general atonement, as well as a specific name of groups of Baptists within the broader category.
General Baptists are distinguished from Particular or Reformed Baptists.
Famous quotes containing the words general and/or baptists:
“As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (18221896)
“[T]he Congregational minister in a neighboring town definitely stated that the same spirit which drove the herd of swine into the sea drove the Baptists into the water, and that they were hurried along by the devil until the rite was performed.”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)