Pilgrims & Baptists: The Little Known Connection

[Jim_Alaska]

Some so called "Baptists" seem to be just as cultish as the "Church of Christ" groups where they believe a church is true only if they wear a certain label. The trueness of a church is determined by what they teach and if they apply the Bible only to their lives, not by their label. The Bible does not command which label a church has to wear.  

 

This is called Baptist dictinctives.

[Genevanpreacher]

Baptist doctrine 101 -

 

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

[HappyChristian]

Let's get back on topic.  Now. Thank you.

[Genevanpreacher]

John Smyth did not start the Baptist Church movement.

 

There were Baptists before John Smyth.

 

To name some movements that were Baptist in doctrine and practice:

 

the Waldensians, the Lollards (Tyndale was very Baptist in doctrine), the Paulicians, the Albigenses, The Novations. 

 

as someone has already said, wherever you got that, it is OBvious they think Baptists are Protestants.. Baptists did not come out of the Anglican Church!

 

I am sure there were some who got saved and came out of the Anglican Church, as well as many other protestant Churches, and became Baptists.

It happens, and it has happened, and it will happen again. People get saved, and leave whatever 'organization' they were part of, to go to where the truth is.

It is the natural process of the Spirit of God, to lead a convert into all truth.

[Genevanpreacher]

Beware the sly attempt to of this article to make Baptists into protestants.

 

I think most of us agree that Baptists are not Protestants, yet those who were Protestants, were Protestants for a reason.

Protesting what ever 'church' they were in. Thus the phrase ['protest'ants]. They protested the falseness of the authority

of the 'catholic' church, but were trying to do what the Puritans tried later. To purify what was left of the so-called church.

 

As lost people we all were once lacking the guidance of 'the church'. 'Church' was something 

'religious' not realistic. When we got the truth, whatever 'organization' we were in, we left it.

Whether it was our 'castle' (home) on Sundays, or another idolatry, like a 'protestant' church, or even the 'catholic' church.

 

So in effect, we were all really 'protestant', becoming 'separatists'.

 

The 'big deal' should be, 'what are we now'. Not 'what were we then'.

 

To say that we should not allow ourselves to be termed 'protestant' is weak, when you look at our lostness before salvation.

Many who focus on that will surely see that the saved were always lost before. Whether Catholic, Protestant, or Baptist, or just a lost

person who never went to a church. A lost person is just that, lost, and it depends not on 'if' they were part of any organization.