[Brass Lamp]

The claims of the article are falsified by the false premise that Baptists are Protestants. If Catholics are going to continue the berate non-catholics for their supposed ignorance and lack of schooling, they would be well advised familiarize themselves with some of the most basic terms used in the dialogue.

Baptists are part of a general "primitive church" movement which acknowledges the truth that the first-generation church, as constituted directly under Christ, was necessarily inerrant and that the fruit of the early church fell not far from that tree. This is why Baptists are interested in the earliest Christian adaptations of Jewish tradition, in this case Passover.

For Catholics to lay claim to the early church from which we all derive makes as much sense as a child pressing a claim to superior ownership of his siblings parents.

[NYer]

Baptists are part of a general "primitive church" movement which acknowledges the truth that the first-generation church, as constituted directly under Christ, was necessarily inerrant and that the fruit of the early church fell not far from that tree.

The Baptist Church was formed in 1609 by John Smyth, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

[terycarl]

The claims of the article are falsified by the false premise that Baptists are Protestants. If Catholics are going to continue the berate non-catholics for their supposed ignorance and lack of schooling, they would be well advised familiarize

oh please....Baptists are indeed protestant and not necessarily good at it. If you are not Catholic, are christian, then you are protestant....

[Cronos]

by the false premise that Baptists are Protestants

Baptists are part of a general "primitive church" movement

Aha -- now Brass Lamp, that is your opinion. There are other Baptists who differ with you, so hence what is it --> do we say Baptists are Protestants or not?