Baptists and Creeds

                                                                                                                      Vol. XIX, No. 1, January 2007

Dr. B. H. Carroll, founder and first president of Southwestern Seminary had this to say about Baptists and creeds:

     A church with a little creed is a church with a little life. The more divine doctrines a church can agree on, the greater its power, and the wider its usefulness. The modern cry: "Less creed and more liberty," is a degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellyfish, and means less unity and less morality, and it means more heresy.... A creed is what we believe. A confession of faith is a declaration of what we believe. The church must both believe and declare. [An Interpretation of the English Bible, vol. 6, pp 140-7, Baker Book House, 1948]