Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
DAVEH: Hmmmmmm........I'm a bit confused about this, Kevin. Are you using a different definition for Baptists than is normally recognized? Or, do you belong to an off-shoot branch of the Baptist tree? The reason I ask this is that my WORLD BOOK Encyclopedia says this about Baptists:"Baptists are members of a large Protestant religious group who reserve baptism for adult or mature persons who affirm their faith in Jesus Christ as their savior. ....... The Baptist movement developed as one wing of English Congregationalism during the early 1600's. ........ Early history. The earliest Baptist leader was John Smyth, a clergyman in the Church of England. About 1607, Smyth went to the Netherlands with those English exiles who later became the Pilgrims of New England. While in the Netherlands, Smyth and 36 of the exiles formed a Baptist church. ......"
So Kevin........As you can see, Baptists are conventionally considered to be Protestant. And, they have a founder (Smyth) who did so in during the Reformation time frame. Why the discrepancy between what the WBE says and what you are telling me? Are you and they talking about the same Baptist Church?
BTW.......I am experiencing severe email problems right now. Until I get this resolved, I am not able to receive any email. Hopefully I will be able to sort it out tomorrow or soon thereafter. If not......I won't be reading your reply until I am able to get another computer up and running. This could be a big problem, as I am anxious to hear your answer to my above questions.
Kevin Deegan wrote:
DAVEH: Didn't you say you were a Baptist, Kevin? Aren't Baptists considered to be Protestants? They existed before there was any such thing as a protestant. Protestants came out of the catholic church.Sir Isaac Newton: "The Baptists are the only body of known Christians that have never symbolized with Rome."If they never got in, how could they come out? By the way who was it that the Catholics burned before the reformation?--Mosheim (Lutheran Historian): "Before the rise of Luther and Calvin, there lay secreted in almost all the countries of Europe persons who adhered tenaciously to the principles of modern Dutch Baptists."
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