Baptist Sunday School Lessons

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Hi, what kind of things were taught in Baptist sunday schools in the 20th cen? Did they teach anti Catholic things? The reason I ask is my grandmother attend their sunday school, and she makes lots of anti Catholic remarks.She always said she developed her faith there , looks like she was taught alot more as well. Id like to see if these things were and still are taught? If they were how could you ever hold your head up high, going to a church like that? I dont blaim any baptists on this forum, I blaim those in my town and baptists of the past!!
 
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Ukrforever said:
Hi, what kind of things were taught in Baptist sunday schools in the 20th cen? Did they teach anti Catholic things? The reason I ask is my grandmother attend their sunday school, and she makes lots of anti Catholic remarks.She always said she developed her faith there , looks like she was taught alot more as well. Id like to see if these things were and still are taught? If they were how could you ever hold your head up high, going to a church like that? I dont blaim any baptists on this forum, I blaim those in my town and baptists of the past!!
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I was taught anti-Catholicism in the Calvary Baptist Church (Southern) in my Sunday school classes and by the pastor from the pulpit – Sunday mornings and evenings, and Wednesday evenings, non-stop – from the age of 4 until I jumped ship and became an agnostic as a young adult. “We believe this, but those idol-worshipping, Mary-worshipping, pope-obeying Catholics who pray to dead saints believe that, and they’re dead wrong and are going to hell unless they leave the Church and become Christian.” The Catholic Church was the “W**** of Babylon” and the Pope was the Antichrist.

There are a couple hundred different kinds of Baptists. Some Baptist denominations are more anti-Catholic than others (Landmark, for example) and individual pastors also vary in the degree of their animosity toward the Church.

The last Baptist service I went to was a funeral. The preacher couldn’t resist telling the congregation that “no church and no pope can save you – etc. etc.” – just in case there was a Catholic among them. 😃 There was. 😃

Jim Dandy
 
I can’t recall anything explitly anti-catholic in all my years of sunday school, church, and classes, although indirectly for sure, depending on the church.

One exception: in my baptismal class as a teen (you know Baptists don’t baptise babies, right?), the pastor went through great pains to explain that Jesus did not establish the church on Peter since the words “rock” and Peter were different, communion was just a symbol, baptism was just a symbol… all that nearly directly aimed (without being too direct at anyone) at catholic beliefs. On top of all this, there is almost an unspoken unerstanding that catholics are way off base…

Just recalling my experiences. Truth be told, seeing the very scriptural rebutle pointed me to the catholic church.
 
Please avoid all anti-Catholic Baptist lessons. That’s all what I’m going to say you. All that protestantism is based on a brain washing. They think it is not funny and interesting if they don’t attack Catholic Church.
Find rather a Catholic priest and listen to his cathechesis and lessons. :))))
 
I have been the Sunday School Superintendent in a Regular Baptist Church for over ten years. I buy and reveiw all the matieral use in our Sunday School. I have never seen anything anti-Catholic in it. We teach what we believe, but just because it is not what Catholics believe does not make it anti-Catholic.

drywall
 
No one can say what your grandmother was taught. Baptist Sunday schools don’t have a “set” curricula. Each church offers a class, or if it is a big church, several classes for the adults during the Sunday school hour. Each class will have a different topic, and the adults are free to select which class they are interested in.

E.g., in the Baptist church that I grew up in, the typical adult Sunday school class electives might look like this:

Body Life: A Study of the Book of Ephesians, taught by Mr. John Smith

Happily Ever After: How to Have a Strong Christian Marriage, taught by Sam and Ella Jones

Into All The World: Being a Missionary in Your Own Neighborhood, taught by Dr. Jim Johnson

Perhaps the teachers of these classes are anti-Catholic and make anti-Catholic remarks during the classes. But more than likely, this wouldn’t happen because it would upset certain people in the class who have Catholic spouses, relatives, or friends, and when people in Protestant churches are upset, they will leave their church and find another church. (And that means less offering money for the church, as well as less people to help with various church ministries.)
 
Ukrforever said:
Hi, what kind of things were taught in Baptist sunday schools in the 20th cen? Did they teach anti Catholic things? The reason I ask is my grandmother attend their sunday school, and she makes lots of anti Catholic remarks.She always said she developed her faith there , looks like she was taught alot more as well. Id like to see if these things were and still are taught? If they were how could you ever hold your head up high, going to a church like that? I dont blaim any baptists on this forum, I blaim those in my town and baptists of the past!!
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The Protestant-Catholic dispute comes from far aways…👍
 
My grandmother went to a Presbyterian Sunday school (not Baptist, so I hope you won’t consider this inappropriate) in the 1930s and was taught that Catholics had tunnels under their churches filled with cannons, and when they become numerous enough the Pope would give the word and they would take over the country. Of course as an adult she didn’t believe it, but she loved to tell me the story.
 
Aelred_Minor said:
My grandmother went to a Presbyterian Sunday school (not Baptist, so I hope you won’t consider this inappropriate) in the 1930s and was taught that Catholics had tunnels under their churches filled with cannons, and when they become numerous enough the Pope would give the word and they would take over the country. Of course as an adult she didn’t believe it, but she loved to tell me the story.
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It is terrible that these Protestants are talking fairy tales about our noble faith.
I almost laugh and cry when I come in their empty churches without the cross and the altar without anything sacred.
 
Aelred_Minor said:
My grandmother went to a Presbyterian Sunday school (not Baptist, so I hope you won’t consider this inappropriate) in the 1930s and was taught that Catholics had tunnels under their churches filled with cannons, and when they become numerous enough the Pope would give the word and they would take over the country. Of course as an adult she didn’t believe it, but she loved to tell me the story.
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Cause cannons would definately work in this day and age :rolleyes: 😃

Obviously its tanks from Italy 👍
 
I didn’t learn anti-Catholic doctrine in the Baptist Sunday schools I attended, but I did sometimes get it from the pulpit.
 
The Sunday school classes Cat describes were not offered in the Southern Baptist church in which I grew up. 😛

This illustrates a problem in all Protestant communities. The variance in what they believe and teach is as deep as the Grand Canyon.

They agree on four things:
  • Sola Scriptura, although there is no agreement among them as to what it means.
  • Sola Fide - Faith Alone saves, although they may have different interpretations
  • all are pro-contraception, a complete flip-flop from their original teaching;
  • all teach that Catholicism is wrong.
Jim Dandy
 
belovucic said:
It is terrible that these Protestants are talking fairy tales about our noble faith.
I almost laugh and cry when I come in their empty churches without the cross and the altar without anything sacred.
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Hey belovucic, My girl friend is Hard Core Southern Baptist and though she may miss her church service, she will almost never miss Sunday school! She states they go over mostly the Old Testament. I asked her if she can make a request on what to go over in the future.
She said yes but the topic must be approved before hand.🤷
I was in her church a short while back do to a friend who’s son was to be baptized.
I would have never known i was in a church! It was empty and cold to me. It’s due to the absents of The Holy Eucharist! There was no Cross to be found anywhere but there were bible verses to be found by the doors entering the church which was nice but Nothing from John 6.
But back to the O.P. I would love to read what Southern Baptist have to say on this…

Matthew
 
I don’t think there is as much dissention against the CC as there was in the past by Baptists or hardly any other christian dennomination.Don/t know if that’s good or bad.
 
drywall said:
I have been the Sunday School Superintendent in a Regular Baptist Church for over ten years. I buy and reveiw all the matieral use in our Sunday School. I have never seen anything anti-Catholic in it. We teach what we believe, but just because it is not what Catholics believe does not make it anti-Catholic.

drywall
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What’s the difference between a Regular Baptist and the other 250+ denominations of Baptists?

What’s the name of your community’s founder and when was it founded?

Thanks.

Jim Dandy
 
valentino said:
I don’t think there is as much dissention against the CC as there was in the past by Baptists or hardly any other christian dennomination.Don/t know if that’s good or bad.
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Is this based on your own experience or a study? If it’s a study, I’d like to read it.

It’s not my experience. Do you get around the internet?

Jim Dandy
 
Ukrforever said:
Hi, what kind of things were taught in Baptist sunday schools in the 20th cen? Did they teach anti Catholic things? The reason I ask is my grandmother attend their sunday school, and she makes lots of anti Catholic remarks.She always said she developed her faith there , looks like she was taught alot more as well. Id like to see if these things were and still are taught? If they were how could you ever hold your head up high, going to a church like that? I dont blaim any baptists on this forum, I blaim those in my town and baptists of the past!!
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Every time I “infiltrate” a protestant bible study, someone manages to work in an anti-Catholic comment. The anti-Catholicism is rampant here on the west coast. It is almost always in the form of extemporaneous, off the page comments, delivered to “make an application” for the hearers or to “drive a point home.” When I was a second grader I remember vividly my bible club leader driving me home one day, and telling me that I was not saved because I was Catholic.

WHen I attended a mission trip at 17 with the local baptist church, everything was good, I could even evangelize with the use of “tracts,” but was addressed by a leader, “Why do you Catholics WORSHIP Mary?” I didn’t know the definition of WORSHIP at 17, so I didn’t know how to answer.
 
drywall said:
I have been the Sunday School Superintendent in a Regular Baptist Church for over ten years. I buy and reveiw all the matieral use in our Sunday School. I have never seen anything anti-Catholic in it. We teach what we believe, but just because it is not what Catholics believe does not make it anti-Catholic.

drywall
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I don’t qualify “we believe this and not that” type of teaching as anti-Catholic. What I do qualify as anti-Catholic is when it’s phrased like so “we believe this, and those Catholics/Romanists/Papist believe this and they’re plain wrong”. When I was growing up I went to a number of Baptist churches at the invitation of friends, and while I was in the Sunday school classes I heard many of the teachers use the latter form. The whole Sunday school class was basically designed to teach us why the Baptists were right and the Catholics were wrong. Yes I know that most Baptist churches don’t teach in this way, but anti-Catholicism seems to be very prevalent in rural Baptist churches.

Another thing that seemed to be prevalent was the refusal to call the Catholic Church by it’s name. It was always “those in the Romanist religion/those in the religion of Romanism” and never “those in the Roman Catholic/Catholic religion”.
 
Used to go to a Baptist supper wednesday nights, stayed for there bible study, most of ther teaching seemed pretty good, I did have words with them on Mary and the end times, I argued the Catholic position, they did not refute. One tim a lady did get upset and walked out,she got over it. IMHO they taught about 80% of what our Church teaches.

God Bless
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