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Bereans
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Bereans or Beroeans (both: bərē`ənz), members of a Protestant religious sect founded in Scotland by John Barclay Barclay, John, 1734–98, minister of the Church of Scotland and founder of the Bereans or Barclayites. His Without Faith, without God (1769) and other works were unacceptable to his presbytery, and he was prohibited from preaching.
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 c.1773. They took their name from the community mentioned in Acts 17.10–13. They held the main Calvinist doctrines and placed great emphasis on the study of the Scriptures. The sect is extinct.


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Tuesday at Berean Baptist Church, 1210 Chambers St.
Becoming a Berean "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, to see whether those things WERE SO.
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