Posted on 04/15/2007 8:41:48 AM PDT by Gamecock
baptists where never affiliated with rome:
http://users.aol.com/libcfl/trail.htm
Sir Isaac Newton:
“The Baptists are the only body of known Christians that have never symbolized with Rome.”
5 solas!
Newton was a genius of science, but he was definitely wrong concerning religion. He didn't believe in Christ's divinity.
see link!Interesting chart. Thanks for posting it....
baptists where never affiliated with rome:
“The Baptists are the only body of known Christians that have never symbolized with Rome.”
Don’t ignore the Coptic Church, The Assyrian Church, The Church of St Thomas in India, The Armenian church, and other small Eastern Orthodox churchs in places like the Uzbekistan and along the silk road. (The last wiped out by the Muslims and Mongols.)
"the word 'Protestant' is actually not a negative term. It is derived from the Latin preposition pro, meaning 'for', an the infinitive testare, 'to witness'. A Protestant then is one who witnesses for — a Protestant witnesses for Jesus Christ and the Word of God. Protestantism then is not merely a protest against ecclesiastical corruption and false teaching; it is a revival of the biblical faith, a revival of New Testament Christianity, with a positive emphasis upon the doctrines of Scripture, grace and faith..."
AMEN!
Luther disputed the sale of indulgences and other superstitions of the medieval church because he realized that they had no foundation in Scripture.
As Luther found out and Joe Walsh warbled, "You can't argue with a sick mind."
And you thought the Catholic church killed off all those ‘heretics’ during the dark ages??? Apparently they didn’t get them all...
“But look again at the chart. See the red circles. They are scattered nearly all over the chart. They represent churches. Single individual churches in Asia, in Africa, in Europe, in mountains and valleys, and so forth. Their being blood red indicates martyr blood. Christ their founder died on the Cross. All the Apostles save two, John and Judas, suffered martyr deaths. Judas betrayed his Lord and died in a suicide. The Apostle John, according to history, was boiled in a great cauldron of oil.”
FROM THE LINK!
Lee N. Field (cool screen name, by the way) is right. Why would the author and the host of the site want include the Montanists and Albigensians in their hypothetical timeline? Many of their teachings differ strongly from not just the Baptists, but from orthodox (small ‘o’) Christianity in general.
Ping to read later
“But look again at the chart. See the red circles. They are scattered nearly all over the chart. They represent churches. Single individual churches in Asia, in Africa, in Europe, in mountains and valleys, and so forth. Their being blood red indicates martyr blood. Christ their founder died on the Cross. All the Apostles save two, John and Judas, suffered martyr deaths. Judas betrayed his Lord and died in a suicide. The Apostle John, according to history, was boiled in a great cauldron of oil.”
Whoever did that chart should read Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and try again. It's kind of confused.
Ditto the quote. The Apostle John did not die a martyr's death, but was boiled in oil? "According to history" -- says who?
This thread's in danger of getting hijacked into a discussion of the Fundamental Baptist equivalent of Papal succession.
BTW fascinating book material from Tufte.
God used BOW & Packard's intro to it, along with Steel's Five Pts Of Calvinisim, to convince me that my hope was truly based in scripture; that scripture maintained that those who believe believe because God caused them to believe & not because they, by "glorius free will", decided to believe.
With Luther we are all heretics; may God make us more heretical.
There is one thing that unites all of the myriad of protestant sects without exception - their hatred of the Catholic Church! That is a common bond they share that transcends all of their many confusing and conflicting and different dogmas and doctrines.
Wrong
For sure; thanks for the link.
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