[precedence]

You're right; the Baptist church is an outgrowth of the Bible-based anabaptist movement, which was neither catholic or protestant.

[Coldwater Creek]

Thank you!!!!!!

[wideawake]

The anabaptist movement, of which the SBC are theological descendants, was indeed a Protestant movement.

The first self-described Anabaptists were Nicholas Storch, Balthasar Hubmaier, John Denk, Thomas Munzer and Heinrich Pfeifer.

All were born and raised Roman Catholic, all affiliated themselves with the protestant Reformers - specifically Luther and Zwingli.

Munzer, the leading Anabaptist, was voluntarily received back into the Catholic Church before he died, BTW.

Anabaptism was another school of Protestant theology alongside Lutheranism, Zwinglianism,Calvinism, etc. - it shred numerous Protestant doctrines with tghe other Protestant schools and like the other Protestant schools it had its own distinctive doctrinal emphases.

The SBC is a doctrinally Protestant group of congregations, just as the Anabaptists were a doctrinally Protestant movement.

[Paleo Conservative]

You're right; the Baptist church is an outgrowth of the Bible-based anabaptist movement, which was neither catholic or protestant.

How could one have a Bible based movement before there were widely available printed Bibles? Why do the Baptists use the Protestant version of the Bible if they aren't Protestant?

[Hieronymus]

Ulrich Zwingli, the leading light of the movement in the early 16th century, did start out his life as an ecclesiastical leader as a Catholic priest. This would seem to make him a Catholic who became a protestant.