And they all had a different interpretation of the Bible that's why there are thousands of denominations of protestant churches today and they keep splintering from each other.
Here's just a few hundred.
Southern Baptist Convention
Independent Baptist
(if non-black)
Baptist Missionary Association
(if non-black)
Baptist General Conference/Swedish Baptist
Conservative Baptist Association of America
Free Will Baptist
General Association of Regular Baptists
American Baptist Association
Baptist Bible Church, including Baptist Bible Fellowship
(if non-black)
Primitive Baptist
(if non-black)
Reformed Baptist (Calvinist)
Fundamentalist Baptist
(if non-black)
Seventh Day Baptist
Baptist General Convention of Texas
North American Baptist
Full Gospel Baptist Association
(if non-black)
Evangelical Baptist
(if non-black)
United Baptist Church
Evangelical Free Baptist
Cowboy Church Baptist
Pentecostal Baptist (
if non-black)
Traditional Baptist
(if non-black)
Ethnic Baptist (
if non-black and born again)
Baptist, not further specified
(if non-black and born again)
Baptist, ambiguous affiliation
(if non-black and born again)
Methodist in the evangelical tradition
Congregational Methodist
Evangelical Methodist
Independent Methodist
(if non-black)
Churches of Christ in Christian Union
Southern Methodist Church
Other ethnic Methodist
(if non-black and born again)
Methodist, ambiguous affiliation
(if non-black and born again)
Methodist, not further specified
(if non-black and born again)
This section documents the composition of the three major Protestant traditions (evangelical Protestantism, mainline Protestantism and historically black
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