Question: Who was the pastor of the earliest Baptist church?
Answer: John Smyth

Question: John Smyth broke his ties with what church?
Answer: Church of England

Question: Where did John Smyth go into exile?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: Smyth wrote a tract titled what?
Answer: "The Character of the Beast," or "The False Constitution of the Church."

Question: What was his first proposition?
Answer: infants are not to be baptized

Question: What was his second proposition?
Answer: Antichristians converted are to be admitted into the true Church by baptism

Question: Smyth believed a scriptural church should consist only of regenerate believers who have been what?
Answer: baptized on a personal confession of faith

Question: What is paedobaptism?
Answer: infant baptism

Question: Who thought their self-baptism was invalid?
Answer: Smyth

Question: Smyth applied for membership with who?
Answer: the Mennonites

Question: What is an outgrowth of Smyth's movement?
Answer: The modern Baptist denomination

Question: What name did Baptists reject?
Answer: Anabaptist

Question: Who wrote that Baptists referred to themselves as "the Christians commonly—though falsely—called Anabaptists?"
Answer: McBeth

Question: When did John Spilsbury promote the strict practice of immersion?
Answer: 1638

Question: Who promoted strict immersion baptism?
Answer: John Spilsbury

Question: Tom Nettles was a professor at what seminary?
Answer: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Question: What was Tom Nettles a professor of?
Answer: historical theology

Question: Who was thought to be influenced by continental Anabaptists?
Answer: early seventeenth-century Baptists

Question: Early seventeenth-century Baptists were thought to be influenced by who?
Answer: continental Anabaptists

Question: General Baptists shared similarities with who?
Answer: Dutch Waterlander Mennonites

Question: Who are two representative writers?
Answer: A.C. Underwood and William R. Estep. Gourley

Question: What were the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites?
Answer: one of many Anabaptist groups

Question: Who founded the earliest Baptist church in North America?
Answer: Roger Williams and John Clarke

Question: When was the first American Baptist church established?
Answer: 1639

Question: Where did Roger Williams establish a Baptist church?
Answer: Providence, Rhode Island

Question: Where did John Clarke establish a Baptist church?
Answer: Newport, Rhode Island

Question: Clarke was what to Williams?
Answer: his compatriot and coworker for religious freedom

Question: Missionary work began in what Canadian colony?
Answer: Nova Scotia

Question: When did missionary work begin in Canada?
Answer: 1760s

Question: What was the first Baptist church in Canada?
Answer: Horton Baptist Church

Question: Where was the first Baptist church located in Canada?
Answer: Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Question: When was the first Canadian Baptist church established?
Answer: 29 October 1778

Question: When did Baptist congregations split over slavery?
Answer: May 1845

Question: Why did American Baptist congregations split?
Answer: over slavery and missions

Question: Slaveholders were prevented from being appointed as what?
Answer: missionaries

Question: Who prevented slaveholders from being appointed missionaries?
Answer: Home Mission Society

Question: Northern congregations formed what organization?
Answer: American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA)

Question: What is the largest fellowship without control?
Answer: Southern Baptist Convention

Question: It has been suggested that a primary Baptist principle is that local Baptist Churches are what?
Answer: independent and self-governing

Question: What term is considered somewhat incongrous is a self-governing church?
Answer: Baptist denomination

Question: Baptists are defined by what?
Answer: doctrine

Question: Baptists have issued what without considering them to be creeds?
Answer: confessions of faith

Question: Most Baptists are what in doctrine?
Answer: evangelical

Question: Baptists have played a key role in what?
Answer: encouraging religious freedom and separation of church and state.

Question: Beliefs about one God; the virgin birth; miracles; atonement for sins through the death, burial, and bodily resurrection of Jesus are examples of what?
Answer: Shared doctrines

Question: When was the London Baptist Confession of Faith created?
Answer: 1689

Question: When was the Philadelphia Baptist Confession created?
Answer: 1742

Question: When was the New Hampshire Baptist Confession of Faith created?
Answer: 1833

Question: "Crisis" comes from a Greek word meaning what?
Answer: to decide

Question: Who wrote that some controversies reach a crisis level may actually be "positive and highly productive?"
Answer: Walter Shurden

Question: What did Shurden claim was never ideal, has often produced positive results?
Answer: controversies that have shaped Baptists

Question: What are some controversies that have shaped Baptists?
Answer: "missions crisis", the "slavery crisis", the "landmark crisis", and the "modernist crisis"

Question: When did Baptists become embroiled in the controversy over slavery in the United States?
Answer: Leading up to the American Civil War

Question: When did Methodist and Baptist preachers oppose slavery and urge manumission?
Answer: the First Great Awakening

Question: They worked with slaveholders in the South to urge what?
Answer: paternalistic institution

Question: What denomination allowed blacks active roles in the congregation?
Answer: The Baptists

Question: What refused to appoint a slaveholder as a missionary?
Answer: the Home Mission Society

Question: When did black Baptists began to organize separate churches, associations and mission agencies?
Answer: As early as the late 18th century

Question: Who separated from white congregations and associations after the war?
Answer: freedmen

Question: Who wanted to be free from white submission?
Answer: freedmen

Question: What states setup black conventions?
Answer: Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky

Question: What percentage of all African-Americans identify with Baptist denominations?
Answer: 45%

Question: Where did Baptist missionaries take an active role in the anti-slavery movement?
Answer: the Caribbean

Question: Who was a prominent British Baptist missionary in Jamaica?
Answer: William Knibb

Question: Where did William Knibb work toward the emancipation of slaves?
Answer: the British West Indies

Question: Knibb also protagonised the creation of what?
Answer: Free Villages

Question: What was named after the slave port of Calabar?
Answer: Jamaica's Calabar High School

Question: When did the Southern Baptist Convention vote to adopt a resolution renouncing its racist roots?
Answer: 20 June 1995

Question: How many Baptists registered for the meeting in Atlanta?
Answer: More than 20,000

Question: SBC delegates are called what?
Answer: messengers

Question: What sought to reset the ecclesiastical separation which had characterized the old Baptist churches?
Answer: Southern Baptist Landmarkism

Question: Who was an influential Baptist of the 19th century and the primary leader of this movement?
Answer: James Robinson Graves

Question: When did the Southern Baptist International Mission Board forbade its missionaries to receive alien immersions for baptism?
Answer: In 2005

Question: The Southern Baptist Convention adhered to what as its official position?
Answer: conservative theology

Question: What groups were formed by moderate Southern Baptists?
Answer: the Alliance of Baptists in 1987 and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in 1991

Question: When was the Alliance of Baptists formed?
Answer: 1987

Question: When was the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship formed?
Answer: 1991

Question: Conservative theology was the official position of what?
Answer: Southern Baptist Convention