How do other denominations explain away the fact that the guy who baptized Jesus was a Baptist?

Question

Thus making Jesus Baptist.

Answer 1

The fact there was no religion called Baptist in the days of Jesus. There is also a thing called good and bad in all religions. There is no right religion or wrong religion because there is good and bad in all religions and God will judge each soul by that which is in their heart not because they stand inside a building. This is one of the biggest misdirected mindsets man has if a few bad people from a certain religion does something bad the entire religion suffers. and that is wrong on every level.

Answer 2

John the Baptist wasn't a Baptist in the modern sense of "Baptist." The Baptist denomination has a lot of doctrines that John the Baptist would cringe at. John the Baptist was a monotheist like all Jews and believed wholeheartedly in charity as well as faith. Making John the Baptist a Swedenborgian.

God is one, and there is a conjunction of charity and faith.

This is the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem that John the Baptist would be proud of.

http://www.mechanicsburgnewchurch.org

Answer 3

They generally start out by saying something that would be censored here. Then they say John the "baptist" was jewish, just like Jesus. After that, they explain how John the baptist got killed before Jesus started preaching, and after jesus died, he came back, and told his disciples to go out and spread the word, and then they started being known as Christians. Then they say "Modern baptists are christians, not jews, so while the baptists are named after John the Baptist, they are not related to his teachings, but to the teachings of Jesus. After that, they say that teh baptist movement started in the 1600s in amsterdam, after which most of that church fled to america, long after the Roman Catholic, Eastern orthodox, Coptic Christian, Anglican, Lutheran, and Russian orthodox churches had formed. Then the baptist asks the exact same question you asked one more time, and the other denominations slap their heads and bemoan the american educational system, and the baptists' literal interpretation of biblical passages where the meaning of the words have changed.

Next week I'll be explaining how all twelve disciples fit into a single honda Accord.

Answer 4

John the Baptist did baptize Jesus and others, but there was no religion known as Baptist in those days.

Answer 5

Obviously you have no understanding of the Christian bible specifically regarding baptism of water and spirit and a denomination calling themselves Baptist.

Name me one instance that Jesus baptize anyone. Check the gospels (NIV) and you will see the word baptize is used fifty times, but not one states that Jesus baptized anyone.

At this point, try reading the book and find out exactly what Jesus did do. Jesus (name means God helps/saves/delivers) so start there.

One more thing: John the Baptist in not a title but a description of what he did in the Wildness.

Answer 6

He wasn't John the Baptist until he baptized Jesus

Answer 7

Luke states that John was a Nazarite from his birth...
Luke 1:15
According to Luke, Zacharias was a priest of the course of Abijah, and his wife, Elisabeth, was of the Daughters of Aaron Luke 1:5, and consequently John automatically held the priesthood of Aaron, giving him authority in Jewish eyes to perform baptisms of God.
John the Baptist (also called John the Baptizer, or Yahya the Baptizer)

There were no Baptists, Lutherans, Catholics in that time.
According to the dictionary...
baptist= One that baptizes.

Answer 8

The name "John the Baptist" comes from the fact that he immersed people in water.

If you are more interested in the theological justification for sprinkling, rather than immersion then:

Acts 2:41 is the usual passage cited to justify sprinkling. The theory is that there was not enough water, for 3,000 people to be immersed, in one day. Furthermore, the locals would have objected to so many people polluting their water supply.

The historical tradition begins with the Didache, that says (paraphrasing) "Immerse them in cold water. If that is not available, use warm water. If that is not available then pour water over them three times."

The writings of the Early Church Fathers describe a number of practical issues they ran into, when doing baptism as immersion.

One other point is that "baptiso" is not always used to mean "immerse". Luke 11:38 uses it to indicate washing. 2 Kings 5:14 [in the LXX ] uses the same term, where the story implies that the entered the water alone.

Answer 9

"Baptist" in this context refers to one who baptizes, not to the religious denomination founded years after the fact. Jesus was a Jew. So was John.

Answer 10

John is called "the Baptist" because he baptized people. Some translations call him "John the Baptizer." It has nothing to do with the church now known as Baptists.

Answer 11

all denomination is division within the body. the sooner people realize this, the better off they will be. a hand cannot exist by itself and be useful, for it needs the arm to support it, the shoulder to connect it to the rest of the body, and the circulatory system to provide blood and energy for it to be able to move.

when people finally get to the point of saying enough, and take off the spiritual blinders (and binders), then there will be realization that there are seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation, and none of the seven is called baptist.

salvation is simply in the fact of accepting JESUS CHRIST as LORD AND SAVIOUR of one's life, repenting and turning away from sin, picking up our cross daily and following the example JESUS gave us.

if there is no salvation, then it isn't going to matter if a person is baptist, methodist, episcopal, catholic, lutheran, non-denom, or what ever....there will be members of every denomination found in the lake of fire...Why? Because they relied on denomination, works, and relative association thinking that would justify their entries into heaven.

One way, and that is through the shed blood of JESUS CHRIST.

Nothing else matters.