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PatienceAndLove
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We don’t, we all them all Baptist.
I think Southern Baptists only get separated out, cause it’s the only one people might see a difference in
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I think Southern Baptists only get separated out, cause it’s the only one people might see a difference in
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Pixie_Dust
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I have a good friend who says, only half-jokingly, that there are 57 Varieties of Baptist.
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Pixie_Dust
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Yep, they’re the “liberals” who don’t use the KJV anymore.
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PatienceAndLove
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ROTFLYep, they’re the “liberals” who don’t use the KJV anymore.
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Allweather
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I see from reading at the GARB site that they formed up in 1932 after splitting off from the Northern Baptist Convention, now known as the American Baptist Churches.
Apparently the main argument was over modernism within the NBC, which isn’t a bad reason to split off, IMO. The Catholic Church has had its own quarrels with modernism but because of our authoritative structure we’ve got perfect methods to deal with this sort of thing, without having to split apart at the seams.
The GARB places complete authority in the local congregation.
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DixiesFinest
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Ironically, I grew up Southern Baptist and it provided the most powerful springboard into the Catholic Church.We don’t, we all them all Baptist.
I think Southern Baptists only get separated out, cause it’s the only one people might see a difference in (they’re crazier than the other ones
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PatienceAndLove
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My Daddy was SoBap, so I am not surprised
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DixiesFinest
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Interesting isnt it? One of the (claims to be at least) farthest denominations from Catholicism provided for me the best introduction to Catholicism. I think the reason is that while trying to hold onto Sola Fide, the Southern Baptists emphasize works so much that it was a very simple step to accept that our Faith AND WORKS justify us before God.
For me, how we are justified was my greatest obstacle to returning home. All the rest simply fell into place.
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Semper_Fi_1
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The common Eastern name for John the Baptist is John the Forerunner.There is a church in Pittsburgh called “St John the Baptist Orthodox Church” and many visiting Baptist tourists have accidentally dropped in on Sunday mornings.
I used to work in a CS office and on enrollment forms, even teachers there would misspell the name of the church that issued their paychecks.
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Roger_Wissinger
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Yeah, I was happy being Baptist also. Then something happened. I started looking into the what the Catholics believe. I was hooked. I’m glad I was Baptist but that darn Scott Hahn. He talked me into it.
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Pixie_Dust
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I have to wonder how many of us there are. From my blog:“I did not leave my Evangelical Roots because I was unhappy there. In fact, I left my Evangelical roots loudly protesting to the Lord that I was very happy where I was thank you very much and did He really think this was necessary.”
For the record, it was a combination of Scott Hahn and John Martignoni that did it for me.
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strngrnrth
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Wow. I just saw the new Jack Chick tract, and it emphasizes obedience as necessary for salvation. That doesn’t sound like him.
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DixiesFinest
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No way…I have to see this for myself.
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allischalmers
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It does not matter when regular Baptist churches where started
A Regular Baptist Church is the truest image of the first centuary church and teach the purest gospel, no matter what Scott Hahn or Jerry Springer say
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DixiesFinest
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Yea, no matter that all of Church history says otherwise, no matter that all of the first century Saints and Martyrs, along with their second, and third, and fourth, and so on century counterparts all professed the Catholic Faith…Baptist is where it is.
Right…
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mystified
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It’s a pronuciation anomaly, not unlike “Catlik”.
I remember a computer problem in which St. John the Baptist parish was invariably transferred to one or another of the Baptist denominations
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I remember a computer problem in which St. John the Baptist parish was invariably transferred to one or another of the Baptist denominations
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allischalmers
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The most important thing we learn from history is our mistakes, that is why there are Baptists
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christcnection1
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oh brother…
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DixiesFinest
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Those poor Martyrs and Saints…unfortunate to know that they gave their lives for a “mistake” that was passed on to them directly from the Apostles…those poor Apostles, already messing up what CHRIST taught them…so sad…
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St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 8-9 (ANF, Vol. I)
“Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”
St. Cyprian of Carthage, Letter without heading to the Lapsed (ANF, Vol, V)
“Our Lord, whose precepts and admonitions we ought to observe, describing the honor of a bishop and the order of His Church, speaks in the Gospel, and says to Peter: “I say unto you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock will I build my Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it (Matt. 16.18). And I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Thence, through the changes of times and successions, the ordering of bishops and the plan of the Church flow onwards; so that the Church is founded upon the bishops, and every act of the Church is controlled by these same rulers.”
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