[Linux4christians] Baptists (was Re: Ex-Muslim's college speech disrupted by arson.)

[htgage3 at chartermi.net]

---- Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote: 
> 
> On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:29 PM, <htgage3 at chartermi.net> <htgage3 at chartermi.net 
>  > wrote:
> 
> > Sorry Mike. I'm not catholic, I'm Baptist. All Christians that I  
> > associate with in church are not catholic. Since I was saved by  
> > grace through faith, I've been a Baptist. I was raised a methodist  
> > catholic. methodists and others of like sort are catholic children.  
> > This would include Episcopalins, church of england, anglicans,  
> > lutherns, etc. all these came from or out of the catholic church.
> 
> 
> Actually, Baptists historically also come out of the Catholic Church,  
> primarily through England, through the Puritans.

No that is NOT correct. Sorry. Baptist were before the catholic church ever was. Baptists were in the first church at Jerusalem. Constantine started the catholic church, hundreds of years after Christ started His church. 
 
> As to the Church, the catholic (as in universal church) seems to be  
> clearly Biblical. It is related to the idea of the Bride of Christ --  
> the communion of all believers.

How could it be Biblical, when it wasn't started until hundreds of years after Christ started His church?
 
> 	-Tim
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