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To: noprogs
>> Baptists existed over 300 years before Rome decided to get into the Church Business. How Baptists got lumped in with the Lutherans as protesting something is beyond explanation. << <

Rome decided to get into the church business around 42 A.D., whereas the earliest church labeled "Baptist" dates back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with English Separatist John Smyth as its pastor. So I'm not sure how that's possible unless he had a time machine and went back to over 200 years before Jesus.

34 posted on 05/31/2014 2:07:27 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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To: BillyBoy
I think he was referring to John, the Baptist...
72 posted on 05/31/2014 7:42:54 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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