Scripture: the Communication of God’s Word

Thank you for that admission.

You have no reason to claim a "historical Baptist church" other than your opinion.

This is much like what the local Baptist Pastor once said to me. "We read the Bible and we imagine what a church was like back then."

It's imagination based on preconceived ideas and beliefs, read into the Bible by someone looking for justification for their beliefs.

Ron

 

Actually, there's a Baptist in the N.T. John the Baptist mentioned in the Bible. What isn't mentioned is Pope, sacrament, Catholic, magesterium, purgatory, holy water, infant baptism, celibate priests, prayer to Mary, human infallability...etc

 

Pope is not a term for the successor of Peter, but is purely a Catholic term. The office itself is a farce. In its sordid history, even a woman was a pope. Check:
http://www.webspawner.com/users/click/

It doesn't say much for the history of the popes does it?
BTW, your concept of the "Keys to the kingdom," is highly flawed. The keys are simply the key to knowledge, as Jesus himself acknowledged. He rebuked the Pharisees for locking up the keys of knowledge from the common people. The key of knowledge is of course the knowledge of the gospel that Christ alone saves. This wonderful message the disciples had and were commanded to go into all the world and preach it to every creature. They had the key (the gospel), not just Peter--all the apostles.

It is an unbiblical concept. There is no such word found in the Bible. The Bible speaks of ordinances, not sacraments.

These signs and wonders were done in the times of the Apostles. If you can replicate them I am sure that you sure will find a willing audience among many volunteers just from the Baptist Board. Can you make a blind man see again using your saliva and a little dirt? Can you heal people with actual physical infirmities (broken bones, for example) just with your handkerchief? Please put on a show for us.
Like Helen already mentioned, the Catholic Church has no problem dealing in those things that are clearly occultic in nature, or in the paranormal. They think nothing of it. Magic waters that heal, (blessed by the priest of course), is just one example of what I mean. There are many others, not to mention the many apparitions that occur on a regular basis.

Again, there is no such word in the Bible. The Bible command us to "remember" the Lord's death by observing the ordinance of the Lord's Table. There is no eucharist. That's just more hocus-pocus.

This is one of the early heresies of the church. Baptism does not save, it only gets you wet. It is a work of man, not of God. It comes after salvation, not before. It is quite futile in giving it to an infant.
DHK

 

Here is some more of your post Carson"

The word "catholic" simply means universal. I've used it many times outside of religious circles. The trouble lies in the fact that the Catholic Church is not the Lord's Universal Church.

You have got to be kidding! Right? There is no magesterium in the Bible, nor any precedent for one. The council held at Jerusalem does in no way resemble a magesterium. You have really got to stretch your imagination there. The Magesterium has as much Biblical foundation to it as Mohammed and the "Rightly-Guided Caliphs." There is truth mixed with error in both.

Are you sure you want to go here?? You have referred to ten different references and haven't done justice to any one of them. How about taking all of them one by one, quoting them, and showing exactly how each one in its context refers to purgatory. I guarantee you that you can't do it.
DHK

 

Carson, You really don't like sound exegesis of Scripture do you?
DHK