It seems you know nothing of history OR baptists.
Did you not know that the Orthodox NEVER accepted Papal authority over them?
Were you not aware that there were MANY discussions about what was scripture and what was not, although the majority of the NT was never questioned?
Were you not aware that the accuser of Luther had written that the Apocrypha wasn’t to be used for doctrine?
And no, I’ve never met a Baptist who claimed to be Roman Catholic. We do claim to be Christians - which I believe the Roman Catholic church now accepts - and thus part of the catholic - universal - church.
there is only one authority on earth that can definitively state what the canon is and it has this authority because it received it directly from Jesus as recorded in Matthew 28. that authority is the Catholic Church, it alone is the pillar of truth and it alone has been promised the Holy Spirit to lead it to all truth.
since you state i know nothing about the baptists, enlighten me, where were the baptists in the 2nd century? who were it’s church fathers? what about the 3rd century? 4th? 5th? etc etc til the 16th. let’s see what you know about them.
Yes, but Roman Catholics aren’t Christians, they add works to faith.