Baptist Traditions

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Anima_Christi said:
There aren’t many Baptists who hold to this view. Although many Traditional Catholics (such as myself) think that women should (not must) wear dresses.
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Are you kidding? Every Baptist church I ever went to was like that down here. The first time my wife and I went to mass together at our new parish, she exclaimed, “Now I can wear PANTS to Church!”😃
 
NathanR said:
I agree there is “Some truth” in the Baptist faith and I know that this is a personal area of weakness for me. I was raised in the Baptist faith and feel that I was misguided greatly until becoming apart of the body of Christ in the universal church.
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Yes there is some truth. The Church realizes all Christian faiths posess some truth but only the Catholic Church posesses the entire truth.
 
mozart-250 said:
Umm…before you guys make yourselves look really foolish, you might want to do some research on the diversity of Baptists that exists.

Baptists range from;
  • Your rather moderate American Baptists here in the north (I know a wonderful American Baptist church I would attend in a heartbeat if I lived 30 more miles out in the middle of nowhere).
  • To your King James only fundamental Baptists
  • To your ethnic black Baptist churches.
So far this thread is a baseball 0-fer as none of these traditions are shared by all Baptists.
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How many Baptist denominations are there?
 
My OP was a question in general which is why I did not list any specific baptist church label like “landmark baptist” for example.

Universal Church vs Local Church for example in some baptist churches.
 
Daniel_Marsh said:
Some Baptist traditions I can think of are,

dunking for baptism

Jesus did not make wine that contained alcohol

Women must wear dresses

Catholic Church started in 300’s.

can you think of any others?
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Hard to do…there are too many variations of **Baptists. **

About the only one close would be Scripture Alone…but then again they don’t agree on what Scripture says within all the various Baptist groups.

It’s like nailing Jello to a wall.
 
If I’m not mistaken, all baptist churches practice “believer’s baptism”.
 
Mickey,
That is exactly what I was going to say. Baptism is an outward expression of one’s faith in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. It is not a necessity because Faith alone saves you; however, you should want to be Baptized if you are truly faithful. Like all works in the Protestant Faiths, you should want to do them if you are truly saved however you do not have to do any because you are saved by faith alone? One of the many reasons I became Catholic.
 
NathanR said:
Mickey,
That is exactly what I was going to say. Baptism is an outward expression of one’s faith in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. It is not a necessity because Faith alone saves you; however, you should want to be Baptized if you are truly faithful. Like all works in the Protestant Faiths, you should want to do them if you are truly saved however you do not have to do any because you are saved by faith alone? One of the many reasons I became Catholic.
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That is definitely a Baptist tradition. I recall it like this:

Baptism has no sacramental value, is not required for salvation…but for some reason is required for membership in a Baptist church. :whacky:
 
MrStain said:
That is definitely a Baptist tradition. I recall it like this:

Baptism has no sacramental value, is not required for salvation…but for some reason is required for membership in a Baptist church. :whacky:
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A family member of mine who is Lutheran started going to a Baptist Church because her Lutheran parish closed. She found some of the things in the Baptist Church troubling, but what made her leave and find another Lutheran Church was when they told her she needed to be baptized in order to be a member of the church. She told them she WAS already baptized, as an infant, and never went back to the Baptist Church.
 
lak611 said:
A family member of mine who is Lutheran started going to a Baptist Church because her Lutheran parish closed. She found some of the things in the Baptist Church troubling, but what made her leave and find another Lutheran Church was when they told her she needed to be baptized in order to be a member of the church. She told them she WAS already baptized, as an infant, and never went back to the Baptist Church.
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Yep… That occurred a lot at my old Baptist church. There were many Christians who were re-baptized in order to obtain membership into the church. Our Pastor was raised Episcopalian and he himself was re-baptized when he first joined a Baptist church.

I didn’t think much about it at the time, because baptism’s were always such joyful experiences and welcoming brothers and sisters into the Church was wonderful. I just trusted that it was all ok, but I clearly did not know at the time that there was meant to be one Baptism and one Body of Christ either.
 
KarenNC said:
The big thing you need to remember about Baptists is that they are basically diametrically opposed to Catholics in church organization. They have a strong tradition of the autonomy of individual congregations.
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Though this ‘autonomy’ is becoming less and less characteristic of the SBC.
 
You guys are forgetting to mention the Baptist tradition that stands above all others: fried chicken for Sunday dinner!
 
maggieodae said:
:rotfl: :rotfl: How could I forget that one! My dh was SB…
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I’m Catholic but I like fried chicken too, and I’m not even Southern. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. I like the South better, though. I love country music.😛 😃
 
I am puzzled by why one baptist church will not accept the baptism that occurred in another bapstist church? Why is that?

So, rebaptism is the common tradition among many baptist churches? or just some?
 
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