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To: matthewrobertolson

Everyone who can say “amen” to the apostles creed would be a good starting point - and all the main protestant denominations do.


84 posted on 11/04/2013 1:18:56 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9
Everyone who can say “amen” to the apostles creed would be a good starting point - and all the main protestant denominations do.

Not all.

Baptists do not at all use it, because the "Apostles'" Creed (which it is not) has the word:
-- "Catholic" (for Romanists)(proper adjective describing the proper noun Church),
or :
--"catholic" (for Roman-derived Protestant Reformers)(describing the common noun "church")
which its original parent, the Roman Creed, did not.

Because Baptists believe in the autonomy of the local church, they implicitly and explicitly reject the word "catholic" in any statement of the Biblical pattern for a New Testament church. So do many other local non-Catholic, non-Protestant, non-denominational churches, for the same reason. However, most of them would probably accept the old Roman Creed as an acceptable statement of The Faith.

87 posted on 11/04/2013 3:17:48 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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