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Lazerlike42
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yes there is a thread in the apologetics forum about this… you may find more people there because it has been a popular thread 
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Michael_Francis
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I am merging this thread with the one in apologetics.
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Eden
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Several CA members have been active over at the baptist.org site’s Catholicism forum for a couple of weeks and I was surprised that we were allowed to present our side for so long. Usually those sites block Catholics from posting almost immediately. The moderator Bill Jackson had responded last week to my statement that John Smyth founded the Baptist movement by stating that Jesus founded his church. A Baptist forum member confirmed John Smyth was the founder with some encyclopedia entries this evening. When I tried to post later, I got a message stating “We’re sorry. Only moderators can post here.”
Bill Jackson gave this public response:
Martyrs Mirror gives an account of Anabaptista being persecuted back to Apostolic times.
www.dodone.org/NA.html gives more Baptistic groups. The name “Baptist” was given as a slur. Baptist groups were around under many different names. One reason their history is hard to trace is because you Catholics killed all of them you could and then rewrote their histories…
It’s a shame because now I can’t respond appropriately to this from another poster:
Well, Eden, we do celebrate the birth of our Lord and since the exact date is not stated in the scriptures thiugh, we do know it certainly isn’t Dec. 25 we do honor His birth on that date. surely you aren’t going to presume that date was set by the catholic church are you?
For if you will do a simple search of that particular holiday Christmas was originally celebrated in January but, president F.D.R. moved it back to the last month of the year for tax reasons to assist retail merchandisers to move out merchandise before the first of the year and give them a break on their taxes paid on stock on hand.
All I can say is it’s great to be home (back at CA). I feel like I just left the twilight zone!
Bill Jackson gave this public response:
Martyrs Mirror gives an account of Anabaptista being persecuted back to Apostolic times.
www.dodone.org/NA.html gives more Baptistic groups. The name “Baptist” was given as a slur. Baptist groups were around under many different names. One reason their history is hard to trace is because you Catholics killed all of them you could and then rewrote their histories…
It’s a shame because now I can’t respond appropriately to this from another poster:
Well, Eden, we do celebrate the birth of our Lord and since the exact date is not stated in the scriptures thiugh, we do know it certainly isn’t Dec. 25 we do honor His birth on that date. surely you aren’t going to presume that date was set by the catholic church are you?
For if you will do a simple search of that particular holiday Christmas was originally celebrated in January but, president F.D.R. moved it back to the last month of the year for tax reasons to assist retail merchandisers to move out merchandise before the first of the year and give them a break on their taxes paid on stock on hand.
All I can say is it’s great to be home (back at CA). I feel like I just left the twilight zone!
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Psalm45_9
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That’s too funny!!! I was just about to sign up yesterday too… sniff… sniff… :crying:
Karl, you know what this means? You’ve been doing your job very well!!!
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LouiseL_SFO
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Interesting because they did not delete the post, it’s still there along with a response to it.wow. the Christian message board put me on coffee break too. and I just joined last night!! Was it something I said? Here’s what I posted under their topic thread: (my name over there is Butterflygal) Christ Life > GOD IN ACTION bibleforums.org/forum/images/misc/navbits_finallink.gif **What do you feel is the biggest thing wrong with the modern-day Church? **
Well, IMHO, I think it is the lack of authority and the fact that there are so many different Christian denominations…which one is right? who do we follow? does anyone really believe that Jesus will return for a bride (His Church) that is divided and at odds with herself?
“Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.” John 17:11 NKJ
Peace –
Butterflygal
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I sure didn’t think THAT sounded too Catholic!
In Christ—magdalisa
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Magicsilence
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Hiya charity, i ventured over to the baptist board aswell, using the same name though. Just like to point out i loved your posts! Brilliant, a severe lack of responses to them i noticed. Keep up the good work.
Hiya Eden. Like to point out that reading your posts on that baptist site was such a breath of fresh air. You sounded like a HEAVYWEIGHT apologist. Amazing. When they responded, you wiped the floor with them every time. Keep it up!
Magicsilence.
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bgh
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I’d have to agree…charity and Eden did a remarkable job over there, ably assisted by a strong cast. I’ve been posting on and off for a year or more, with some strong Catholic posters who came and went, and it was such treat finally to see a larger group of knowledgable Catholics who were able to call them to account for the stuff they were saying. In the words of one poster there, the crickets are now chirping in that forum.
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bobby_bambino
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Hi. I haven’t read much from this thread, but I just want to say to Charity, Eden, Magicsilence, and maybe some others that you guys are doing an awesome job of defending the faith on baptist.org. Seriously, you guys really know your stuff and I’m learning a lot from ya’ll!
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reen12
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Hi, Church Militant,
quote: Church Militant
I’m with you on that!
While I pray with Israel, let someone
distort Church teaching and I’m “in their face”…
bigtime!
I may not agree with the teaching, but I’m not
going to stand by and see it distorted. If you’re
going to disagree with something, at least have
a clear idea of *what *it is you’re disagreeing with,
not a caricature.
Once an Irish-Catholic, always an Irish-Catholic?
I may throw the occassional hardball at the Church,
but that’s a family issue.
I pray with Israel, but RC’s have been and will always
be my family. If you’re outside the family, and you
badmouth it, get ready for opposition.
I’ll argue tooth and nail with former fellow Catholics, but
don’t remove my place setting at the family picnic, OK?
Family’s gotta take you in, right?
I promise not to talk like an apostate during the festivities.
reen12
Fightin’ Irish
aka Zusia
quote: Church Militant
QUOTE]
I’m with you on that!
While I pray with Israel, let someone
distort Church teaching and I’m “in their face”…
bigtime!
I may not agree with the teaching, but I’m not
going to stand by and see it distorted. If you’re
going to disagree with something, at least have
a clear idea of *what *it is you’re disagreeing with,
not a caricature.
Once an Irish-Catholic, always an Irish-Catholic?
I may throw the occassional hardball at the Church,
but that’s a family issue.
I pray with Israel, but RC’s have been and will always
be my family. If you’re outside the family, and you
badmouth it, get ready for opposition.
I’ll argue tooth and nail with former fellow Catholics, but
don’t remove my place setting at the family picnic, OK?
Family’s gotta take you in, right?
I promise not to talk like an apostate during the festivities.
reen12
Fightin’ Irish
aka Zusia
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LSK
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Boy do I agree with you on this one.
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E.E.N.S
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I first started with BrotherLee but they deleted all my posts and “Coffee Break’d” me, then I signed on as BelovedDisciple2 and tried a different approach…“Coffee Break” time again, lol. I guess they can’t handle anything that even sounds remotely Catholic.
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adventistnomore
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This experieince proves to me (personally):
Catholics are members of a more engaging, honest faith.
We should be very proud of our forum for inviting discussion, questions, inquiries & CHALLENGES from our opponents, and discussing all religious faiths/beliefs (and be corrected when we are unfamiliar with them or misrepresenting therm.) Long live the Catholic forums!
Catholics are members of a more engaging, honest faith.
We should be very proud of our forum for inviting discussion, questions, inquiries & CHALLENGES from our opponents, and discussing all religious faiths/beliefs (and be corrected when we are unfamiliar with them or misrepresenting therm.) Long live the Catholic forums!
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Andrew_11
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I just joined this protestant forum after I read this thread and I have started a thread there, check it out, lets get more of us to join that forum and defend catholocism.my thread bibleforums.org/forum/showthread.php?p=516479#post516479
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reen12
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Dear Andrew_11,
quote: Andrew_11
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Would you give me your thought on the politicaly correct
term for apostasy, as well? :tiphat:
reen12
quote: Andrew_11
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Would you give me your thought on the politicaly correct
term for apostasy, as well? :tiphat:
reen12
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Andrew_11
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Thats part of my signiture, not my post, and I thought I removed that from my signiture cause it might offend people. I didn’t think it was still in there.
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montanaman
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It could be that the bibleforums board is some kind of anomaly–a bunch of Protestants who don’t want to do anything with Catholics. That’s fine and all, but I bet every single one of them would jump at the chance to tear a Catholic away from the Church.
The amount of work it takes just to build up a solid foundation upon which they can start asking truly meaningful questions is just staggering. I kept seeing “Why defend XYZ church?” They have the most well-developed cognitive dissonance I’ve ever seen in human beings.
The amount of work it takes just to build up a solid foundation upon which they can start asking truly meaningful questions is just staggering. I kept seeing “Why defend XYZ church?” They have the most well-developed cognitive dissonance I’ve ever seen in human beings.
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bobby_bambino
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Hi Andrew! I read the post you started on that Protestant forum, and its obvious they don’t want to have anything to do with us! They’re not willing to discuss issues or anything. Better if we leave them alone. BTW ‘‘Cafeteria Catholic is just a politicly correct term for heritic.’’ is fantastic!!
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Church_Militant
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I’m with you on that!
While I pray with Israel, let someone
distort Church teaching and I’m “in their face”…
bigtime!
I may not agree with the teaching, but I’m not
going to stand by and see it distorted. If you’re
going to disagree with something, at least have
a clear idea of *what *it is you’re disagreeing with,
not a caricature.
Once an Irish-Catholic, always an Irish-Catholic?
I may throw the occassional hardball at the Church,
but that’s a family issue.
I pray with Israel, but RC’s have been and will always
be my family. If you’re outside the family, and you
badmouth it, get ready for opposition.
I’ll argue tooth and nail with former fellow Catholics, but
don’t remove my place setting at the family picnic, OK?
Family’s gotta take you in, right?
I promise not to talk like an apostate during the festivities.
reen12
Fightin’ Irish
aka Zusia
Thanks Reen!
(God Be Good To You!)
I’ll save ya a seat next to me if ya don’t mind.
Pax tecum,
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Chipper
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Franz said:
Hey all, I think I am confused about the titel of this thread.
It says Baptist.org is closed to all catholics, but the date is July 28. I have been posting over there on the catholic forum until yesterday. Today it won’t let me post without moderator priviledges.
At any rate why does this post talking about Baptist.org have an earlier date on it???
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Psalm45_9
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This thread was conjoined with another thread by Michael Francis last night. Apparently Baptist.org is locking out the Catholics, because we’re exposing the errors in their understanding of the Catholic Church.
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