what are their names? because you can't find them in any history books unless they mean anabaptist who also believed in human sacrafice and other heretic teachings... and don't give me that stuff the church wiped away they're records because all heresies are recorded... so who are these "ancient baptist"?
2007-02-12 11:37:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Once a heretic, always a heretic!
Check out this link to an amazing and quite unbelievable bit of protestant tradition:
http://users.aol.com/libcfl/trail.htm
This should be on every protestant bookshelf, right next to Foxe's Book of Martyrs, The Two Babylons, and Grimm's Fairy Tales.
One more thing ... The Church was first referred to as Catholic ... in writing ... in about 107AD ... not 200 years later, in the time of Constantine, as one of the other posters stated.
2007-02-12 16:44:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
whoa. first of all, you need to understand what baptists are.
we don't believe that there were people who called each other baptists in the early centuries AD.
"baptist" is a tag put on a theological and doctrinal standpoint that can be applied to the early Christian church. Those Christians that Constantine supported were those who shared the beliefs now widely held by the Catholic and Anglican church.
sorry for the confusion. i should be more careful!
EDIT: i didn't say that they were the only true Christians then either! this point in history was long before the dogmatic corruption of the Catholic Church that would follow. "Catholic", by the way, was a term invented by Constantine's contemporaries.
2007-02-12 19:43:19 · answer #2 · answered by κερυξω 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a lie. It was all Catholic before everyone started thinking they would like to be their own Pope.
2007-02-12 19:42:49 · answer #3 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋