Featured Baptist are not Protestants

I would not be sure of that at all.

 

Your certainty is misplaced.

 

Yes it is. Baptists are Protestants...seeing as they arose out of the Radical Reformation, they are part of the Protestant Reformation. They are Protestants.

Besides, I've never met a group more eager to protest something than Baptists.

 

Neither are the Mormons.
Apostolic succession offers no validity to baptism, nor nullification to that of the Reformers. The Trail of Blood is a fairy tale.

 

Alas, all too much of the stuff on this board is not from the Protestant Reformation, but I am a Protestant, and I don't hesitate to say that I am a Protestant before I am a Baptist.

The English Particular Baptists built on the Reformation by removing the last remnant of Romanist doctrine- infant 'baptism'- and providing the correct understanding of Covenant Theology.

 

I see the Baptist movement in the beginning of 17th century in England having it's origin from the two branches of protestantism. It was influenced by the radical movement of Anabaptists in Holland that's where they got their doctrine of believers baptism by immersion and from the non radical protestantism of Lutheranism or Calvinism.

I see God in history and throughout history ( especially since the Protestant Reformation) as reforming his Church and recovering to her the apostolic teachings of the early Church. Baptists like other Protestant denominations are a movement born in a specific time and place.

The myth that there always have been Baptists since the early Church and throughout the Church history to this day, I don't get it. All those minority Christian groups from Donatists to the followers of John Hus had their particular distinctions as a christian movement.

Baptists don't hold the monopoly of truth, Jesus and the Bible does and that Truth is manifested in doctrine as well in life of every true believer who is part of the Bride for each Christ died.

 

Maybe this Roman Catholic Cardinal is talking about Anabaptists because there were no Baptists yet during the lifetime of this Cardinal unless you equate an Anabaptist with a Baptist that's totally another subject of discussion.

You believe in your trail of blood myth, that's your right to do so, but the historical facts in the history of the Church are not on your side, just saying brother.

 

The provenance of this quote is, shall we say, rather suspect. Check it out on the internet. There are no 'Letters apud Omnia' in the 'Complete Works of cardinal Hosius.'

That there were groups that baptized adults rather than infants before the Reformation is a matter of record. But, sad to say, most of them (eg. Paulicians, Albiguenses) were heretical by any standards.

Regardless of that, I am a Protestant Baptist and unashamed.

 

I have never been shackled by Rome. But I was once shackled by those who were shackled by Rome

 

I must protest the implication...


God bless.