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Becker Bible Studies LibraryTwo-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
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Denomination History, Practices and Beliefs Introduction The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church acquired their name from the doctrine from Daniel Parker stating there are two seeds, one spirit that is good and one spirit that is evil. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church are part of the Baptist denomination and congregational in their form of government.The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists church is commonly known as the anti mission Baptists along with the Duck River and Kindred Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Old Regular Baptists, some Regular Baptists and some United Baptists. The founder of the Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists church was the Elder Daniel Parker from Tennessee and Illinois who established the Two Seed Doctrine. Daniel Parker was a Baptist minister who taught that a part of the offspring of Eve were the seed of God. The Elder Daniel Parker believed and taught the seed of God were the elect to eternal life, he taught the other seed was of satan and were foreordained to the kingdom of eternal darkness. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists church has been compared to the elect theory and the predestination theory of Calvinism. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church are Manichaean in doctrine. Manichaean is a religious doctrine which is based on separation of matter and the spirit and of good and evil. The Manichaean doctrine originated in Persia in the 3rd centrury. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church has been called Old School, Predestinarian, and Primitive Baptist until late in the 19th century. It was then considered by the Primitive Baptists that the Two Seeders were holding onto heretical doctrines. Two Seed Churches do not consider themselves as Primitive Baptists. The status of the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists taken in 2003 showed there are four remaining churches; two in Texas, one in Indiana and one in Tennessee. There is approximately eighty members. Two of the churches participate together in the Trinity River Association, and two are independent. History The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church first appeared in the late eighteenth century. It was the elder Daniel Parker (1781-1844) who protested against the mission and opposed the Arminian doctrine of the Methodists and established his dislike of their missionary effort and church schools and thus established his Two Seed Doctrine. Daniel Parker was convicted that two seeds entered the life stream of humanity in the Garden of Eden. One seed was good, planted by God. The other seed was evil, and was from satan. The two seeds were in conflict in humanity from that day on. He believed that every baby is predestined, born with either one seed or the other. There is nothing that can be done to change the way either one was born. That means missions are useless and underminded the mission of God. Daniel Parker said the seed is in the spirit and not of the flesh. This was the cardinal point of Parkers theology. Daniel Parker was a stringent Predestinarian. He felt there was a violation of the government of the Church of Christ in forming themselves into a body. The Elder Daniel Parker was the leader of the Two Seed movement and spoke best to the common man. The Two Seed Doctrine was comparable to the elect theory of Calvinism and is predestination. Daniel Parker felt the mission activity was not Biblical since the seed had already been predestined. Daniel Parker migrated to the Texas frontier in 1834. It was a time that Texas was still a part of Mexico. Mexico was mainly Catholic and would not allow any Protestant churches in Mexico. It was July 26, 1833; in Illinois that The Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church was constituted before Parker left for Texas. Daniel Parker organized around nine churches in the eastern part of Texas. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church entered South Georgia in 1840 and the movement hit the highest point around 1880. Belief The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists believes The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists believe in the Resurrection of the body of Christ, and that this body is the church. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church believes Salvation is by grace alone. They believe in the resurrection of the body of Christ, and they believe the body of Christ is the church. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church observes the Lord’s Supper and practices foot washing. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church usually does not have a Sunday school. Manners and morals are all important to the Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church. They are against dancing, drinking and smoking. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church believes there should be no foreign missions since every baby is predestined. Believing they are either born with a good seed or a bad seed. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church believes nothing can be done to change which seed is received. They conclude no mission is useless. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church do not pay their ministers. The Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Church believes Christ came to save sinners and He finished His work so ministers should not be paid for that Christ had already finished. |
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Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” (Lu 21:36 AV) |
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