The Bahamas Baptist Union was organized on April 5, 1892 and comprised Baptist Churches drawn from New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island, San Salvador, Long Island, the Exumas, and Andros. From the very beginning up to the present time, the Union has never been an organization of complex rules and regulations. However, common ideals have been clear and concise, which were identified as follows at
the start:
We believe in common with all Orthodox Christians:
1. The divine Trinity and unity.
2. Christ’s incarnation and proper deity.
3. Man’s fall and helplessness, and his redemption by the vicarious sacrifice of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
4. The personality and deity of the Holy Spirit.
5. Justification of Christ’s mediatorial work
6. Holy living after God’s commandments.
7. A future resurrection of the body.
8. The day of judgment, and a state of eternal bliss or misery in another world
9. We declare our belief that the inspired Scriptures contain the full and supreme authority of Christ for all that relates to faith and practice
10. That a Christian Church is made up of persons morally regenerated, called from the world by Christ’s special authority to be a people peculiar to Himself
11. We maintain baptism and the Lord’s Supper, after the Apostolic appointment-both as regards their relation to themselves and to other Gospel teaching
12. That we earnestly oppose all connection of the Church with state, and all
distinctions among its citizens on the ground of religion
