It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to known why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God.” The creed gives the purpose, it affirms the belief. My creed is in the context of religion, but I also to take to heart there are many sorts of creeds that hold people, corporations, organizations, and associations together. The creed is a personal bond to uphold, cherish, and a commitment. …show more content…
This creed may or may be disclosed profoundly. Of course, Baptists always have been formal creedalists. This is inherent in the name “Baptist,” which says something about what we believe about baptism. Baptists have always insisted on defining the boundaries of their faith, beginning with the General Baptists’ Short Confession of Faith in Twenty Articles (1609) and the Particular Baptists’ London Confession of 1644, and continuing to the current Baptist Faith and Message. As William Lumpkin wrote a number of years ago, “few Christian groups have confessed their faith so freely as the Baptists.”