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To: djrakowski

No, I’m a Baptist, which was the name given us by the Pope because we believed in scriptural Baptism of believers by immersion. We were persecuted by the Pope and the Protestants for that belief.


84 posted on 10/31/2008 1:27:29 PM PDT by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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To: demshateGod; Petronski; NYer; Titanites

If you’re a Baptist (and I was a Baptist), then you’re a Protestant. There’s no way for you to avoid that appellation.

I hope you’re not getting your view of Christian history from “The Trail of Blood.” It would explain a lot about your posts, though.


86 posted on 10/31/2008 1:31:07 PM PDT by djrakowski
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To: demshateGod

Actually, Baptists were first called “anabaptists” because they wouldn’t baptise children. Baptists changed it to “Baptist,” to emphasise that they did indeed want to baptise people, but only after they had come to a satisfactory understanding why.

The Pope had nothing to do with either name, which were both handed to him post-facto from northern Europe.


87 posted on 10/31/2008 1:32:02 PM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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