Featured Basic question: Are Baptists Protestant?

You quote me and then you proceed as if I had something something contrary to what I posted.
Read carefully. The Lord has and shall preserve His own through the ages. But His own --the elect --the Church is composed of Baptists only. And since Baptists come in so many different flavors --some downright heretical --all Baptists are not among the elect.

Will you be surprised that Presbyterians, Plymouth Brethren, Evangelical Free and others outside the Baptist fold are among His own? Don't be blind or puffed up that you are Baptist as if they can do no wrong.

 

Who in the world is making those claims? Answer: Nobody.

Now that kind of statement has to be rebuffed at once. As I have said many times --the elect are from among all parts of the world. The true church is composed of folks from all walks of life,social status,denomination affiliation etc. The Baptists alone are not the sole members of the "true church." And with the very mixed bag that constitutes Baptists you should be quite circumspect when quoting things like the above. It is not the prudent thing to do.

It shows no such thing. Baptists churches are of comparatively recent vintage since they are only a spry 400 years of age.

 

We had a "Baptist" "pastor" on this board who was a self-proclaimed homosexual. There are Charismatic Baptists and seventh-day Baptists.
Why do you feel the need to identify so strongly with the "Baptists" when so many of them have beliefs that most Baptists do not hold to??

 

Somehow I had left NOT out of my original post.

 

Who is claiming otherwise?

Huh?

Baptists (who originated in the early 17th century) as well as Christians from other denominational backgrounds have been "bearing the torch."

Who here has said otherwise?

Your little ole' thread and your itty bitty conclusions are not worth a hill of beans. You don't get to decide actual history.

Baptists did indeed originate from out of the Reformation. Those are just the facts --like em' or not.

Obviously any true Christian Baptist or not is in union with Christ.

Your oracles are like the infamous Caner quote:"I'm not a Calvinist. I'm a Baptist!" ;-)

 

In the 17th century --when Baptists just started out --the General Baptists (rather Arminian in their theology) and the particular Baptists (rather Calvinistic)both strenuously maintained that they were not Anabaptists. Now you are reversing your heritage. Your Baptists forefathers are going "Huh?" to your remarks.

 

There, I have shortened my list so that those interested can avail themselves of true history.

Tom Nettles needs to be added.

 

This thread has triggered some thoughts in my mind so I'm going to start a thread with the question, What are the identifying marks of a true New Testament church?

Among the areas I want to get into:
Since most Baptist claim to be "New Testament" churches, what are the marks of a Baptist church?

Further, since there are forty-leven kinds of Baptists, are there somethings Baptists can disagree about, that are not Baptist distinctives? (Eschatology, for instance).

Then, what are some beliefs and practices which would disqualify a congregation from calling itself Baptist, or a NT church for that matter?

I'm probably going to copy and paste this post, so watch for it in this General Baptist discussion section.