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Mission Statement: The mission of the PBportal.org is to provide an up to date, web accessible, convenient, and easy to use interface through which "old line" Primitive Baptists can share and dissiminate information. Through this website, we pray that fellowship will be enhanced, and that members and friends of our churches can find resources and information that will aid them in their Christian Walk. We intend for PBportal.org to be a gateway through which people can find information for and about the "old line" Primitive Baptist community.
Posting Guidelines: It is not our intention to be exclusionary, but in order to maintain the objectives laid out in our mission statement and to be true to our convictions, we will limit the posts on this website of news, meetings, other Primitive Baptist sites, church site links, and online sermons to material about or by "old line" Primitive Baptists. We will not enter into the controversial arguements that sometimes rage across our country. Our objective is not to divide but to unite the Primitive Baptist community. Below is a statement of faith in the form of a series of bullet points that characterizes that for which this website stands. All who agree with these articles are welcome to post. Prayer requests are not limited to any denomination or faction in any way. Bible study resources may point to locations that are not necessarily "old line" Primitive Baptist or Primtive Baptist at all, but are considered generally useful for the edification of God's people.
Statement of Faith
1st. We believe and profess, that there is only one true
God, who is our God, who is eternal, almighty, unchangeable, infinite,
and incomprehensible; who is a Spirit, having His being in Himself,
and giveth being to all creatures; He doth what He will, in heaven
and earth; working all things according to the counsel of His
own will.
2nd. That this infinite Being is set forth to be the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three agree in one. I
John v.7.
3rd. We profess and believe the Holy Scriptures, the Old
and New Testament, to be the word and revealed mind of God, which
are able to make men wise unto Salvation, through faith and love
which is in Christ Jesus; and that they are given by inspiration
of God, serving to furnish the man of God for every good work;
and by them we are (in the strength of Christ) to try all things
whatsoever are brought to us, under the pretence of truth. II
Timothy iii.15-17; Isaiah viii.20.
4th. That though Adam was created righteous, yet he fell
through the temptations of Satan; and his fall overthrew, not
only himself, but his posterity, making them sinners by his disobedience;
so that we are by nature children of wrath, and defiled from the
womb, being shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin. Psalm li.5;
Romans v.12-15.
5th. That God elected and chose, in His Eternal counsel,
some persons to life and salvation, before the foundation of the
world, whom accordingly He doth and will effectually call, and
whom He doth so call, He will certainly keep by His power, through
faith to salvation. Acts xiii.48; Ephesians i.2-4; II Thessalonians
ii.13; I Peter i.2, etc.
6th. That election was free in God, of His own pleasure,
and not at all for, or with reference to , any foreseen works
of faith in the creature, as the motive thereunto. Ephesians i.4,
Romans xi.5,6.
7th. That Jesus Christ was, in the fulness of time, manifested
in the flesh; being born of a woman; being perfectly righteous,
gave himself for the elect to redeem them to God by his blood.
John x.15; Ephesians v. 25-27; Rev. v.9.
8th. That all men until they be quickened by Christ are dead
in trespasses -- Ephesians ii.1; and therefore have no power of
themselves to believe savingly -- John xv.5. But faith is the free
gift of God, and the mighty work of God in the soul, even like
the rising of Christ from the dead -- Ephesians 1.19. Therefore
consent not with those who hold that God hath given power to all
men to believe to salvation.
9th. That Christ is the only true King, Priest, and Prophet
of the Church. Acts ii.22-23; Hebrews iv.14, etc; viii.1, etc.
10th. That every man is justified by Christ -- Romans; viii.33;
I Cor. vi.11; apprehended by faith; and that no man is justified
in the sight of God partly by Christ and partly by works. Romans
iii.20,28,30; Gal. v.4.
11th. That Jesus of Nazareth, of whom the scriptures of the
Old Testament prophesied, is the true Messiah and Saviour of men;
and that He died on the cross, was buried, rose again in the same
body in which He suffered and ascended to the right hand of the
majesty on high, and appeareth in the presence of God, making
intercession for us.
12th That all those who have faith wrought in their hearts
by the power of God, according to his good pleasure, should be
careful to maintain good works, and to abound in them, acting
from principles of true faith and unfeigned love, looking to God's
glory as their main end. Titus iii.8; Heb. xi.6; I Cor. vi.10
and 31.
13th. That those who profess faith in Christ, and make the
same appear by their fruits, are the proper subjects of Baptism.
Matthew xxviii.18,19.
14th. That this baptizing is not by sprinkling, but dipping
of the persons in the water, representing the death, burial, and
resurrection of Christ. Romans vi.3,4; Colossians ii.12; Acts
viii.38,39.
15th. That persons so baptized ought, by free consent, to walk
together, as God shall give opportunity in distinct churches,
or assemblies of Zion, continuing in the Apostles' doctrine and
fellowship, breaking of bread and prayers, as fellow-men caring
for one another, according to the will of God. All these ordinances
of Christ are enjoined in His Church, being to be observed till
his Second Coming, which we all ought diligently to wait for.
16th. That at the time appointed of the Lord, the dead bodies
of all men, just and unjust, shall rise again out of their graves,
that all may receive according to what they have done in their
bodies, be it good or evil.
This statement taken from the 1655 Midland Confession
Furthermore, we do not believe instrumental music, sunday schools, or missionary or tract societies are acceptable as additions to the church that Christ established in this world.
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Below, you will find general guidelines on what should be posted under each category.
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