Are Baptists Protestants?

[Rippon]

James E. McGoldrick

"Extensive graduate study and independent investigation of church history...surviving primary documents render the successionist view untenable...Baptists arose in the seventeenth century in Holland and
England. They are Protestants,heirs of the Reformers." (Baptist Successionism:A Crucial Question in Baptist History,1994 --pages 1,2)

Those are the facts.

 

[kyredneck]

Yes.....

TND,you can't answer a two-pronged question with a simple "Yes.".....

That's about his limit, short of plagiarizing.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

That's about his limit, short of plagiarizing.

Huh?!? what is this all about?

 

[Rippon]

Huh?!? what is this all about?

TND has been known for "lifting" things.

 

[Yeshua1]

Those are the facts.

That would cover the reformed baptists, but what about those of us who see a continuity link all the way back to Apostolic Christianity though?

 

[Zenas]

That would cover the reformed baptists, but what about those of us who see a continuity link all the way back to Apostolic Christianity though?

That was the point of the post, to show that there is no continuity or linkage back to Apostolic Christianity. Those who think there is are engaging in wishful thinking.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

That would cover the reformed baptists, but what about those of us who see a continuity link all the way back to Apostolic Christianity though?

All I know for certain is that Presbyterians have many similar traditions to Roman Catholics & I for one would like to keep a save distance, so Id prefer to be seen as Baptistic & totally free of RC errors.

 

[Jerome]

Rippon, thanks for bumping this thread.

In January, you said:

I am not dismissing your info. I'm just sayin' . But I will look into it.

regarding facts presented debunking your claim that:

The General Baptists didn't even mention,much less practise, full immersion until a blurb appeared in their 1660 Confession of Faith.

So tell us what you've found out. . .