What is the Difference Between Baptist and Catholic I am catholic but want to attend church aren't both Christian based what are some of the diffrent beleifs and differences?"
2007-05-20 18:21:06 · 7 answers · asked by ERCOLE D 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pastor Billy says: most of the answer are okay except number 3 blessedw@@@. She is obviously screwed up.
Typical speaking off the top of her head stuff entirely inconsistent with the bible and Christian tradition. People should really only speak on what they are knowledgeable about. Latin Rite Catholics primarily baptise with a pouriing on, not sprinklling althought this is done many times in Old Testament scripture too bad she doesn't read all of her bible.
If you are contemplating attending a Baptist Church run! As another poster has indicated there are so many variants of Baptists not all are alike and there is zero doctrinal unity. For example go to any Christian bookstore and ask for several books on salvation with Baptist authors. You'll soon discover 50% write a theology which say you can lose it once you are "born again' and the other 50% say you can.
Baptist can be extremely nice on the surface to Catholics but many of them harbor an great ignorance of Catholicism and believe all kinds of slanderous things about the Church.
See some of my previous question/answers as I could write on and on with this topic but I think a better way to understand the difference and appreciate the similarities would be to listen to several former Baptists describe their finding the Catholic Church and becoming Catholic.
goto the link below and download the audiofiles I mention from EWTN
here is the main menu
http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/file_index.asp?SeriesId=-6892289&pgnu=
download
17. The Bible Alone is Not Enough
Host - Marcus Grodi with guest David Currie
30. Baptism
Host - Marcus Grodi with guest Ken Hensley
72. G.K. Chesterton
Host - Marcus Grodi with guest Dale Ahlquist
173. Call to Holiness
Host - Marcus Grodi with Alex Jones
205. Former Charismatic Episcopal Minister
Host - Marcus Grodi with Michael Cumbie
310. Former Church of Christ
Host - Marcus Grodi w/ Bruce Sullivan
and finally if you wanted to download only one this would be the best one in understanding the Baptist denomination(s) and the false beliefs many Baptists have on Catholicism
429. Former Baptists.
Host - Marcus Grodi w/ Fr. Gray Bean, David Currie and Steve Ray.
2007-05-24 13:21:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only speak in general about what the Baptists believe because not all Baptist churches are the same. The reason is because of Protestantism.
The Catholic Church as been around since Christ founded her 2,000 years ago. She has preserved, taught, and protected His teachings from the beginning.
Most Christians - catholic and protestant - have the same basic beliefs: that Jesus is our Lord and Savior, in His life, death and resurrection, repentance and forgiveness of sins, and the hope of eternal life. After this, it's difficult to explain.
Protestantism is a break from the Catholic Church around the year 1500, and includes all non-Catholic Christian churches.
When one tries to understand what Protestants teach, they soon discover that there are as many different beliefs as there are protestants. The reason is that Protestantism fractures every time there is a difference of opinion about belief. This is why we have over 54,000 different protestant denominations. When faced with this daunting number, someone trying to find the true teachings of Christ would feel this is impossible. Ironically, while each denomination is different from the other, they each claim to have Christ's true teachings and each condemn the other. It's crazy.
For the fullness of Christ's teachings and to be part of the Church He originally set down, we must study and live our Catholic Christian faith.
God bless and take care.
2007-05-21 10:18:33 · answer #2 · answered by Danny H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most important difference between Catholics and ALL Protestants (including Baptists) is that Catholics believe the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ during Mass. Protestants believe it is only symbolic. Besides that, the differences are mostly cultural. Catholics have far more "spiritual" stuff like candles, statues, incense, the Rosary, etc. Baptists are more fundamental though, and they take the Bible literally whereas Catholics try to understand it contextually.
2007-05-21 06:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are more traditional and have alot of rituals (I'm saying that in a nice way) like communion and reciting the nicean creed and stuff and sacraments, but they don't take the bible literally. Baptists are more fundamental in their beliefs, they believe adam and eve were real people, and they do alot more praising and worshiping and bible study, but don't really have rituals apart from baptism. The differences are quite numerous, pretty much the only thing they share in common is they both believe Jesus is God, but they have massive differences in how they interpret the bible.
2007-05-21 01:31:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am baptist, and believe what the bible, the KJV bible, says in its entirety. Catholics believe what traditions tell them, and men tell them, and books written by corrupt men.
Catholics believe in a different salvation of works, and traditions and baptism of babies by sprinkling.
The bible clearly states baptism is for AFTER your saved, and by immersion. NOT sprinkling.
Catholics go against the bible.
Baptists (not all, but some) go with what the bible says, and Jesus is our authority, not a priest.
2007-05-21 01:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by Bl3ss3dw1thL1f3 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Mostly worship style. We share a lot of the same basic beliefs.
2007-05-21 02:16:48 · answer #6 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know the spelling is different...after that it gets a little technical.
2007-05-21 01:26:02 · answer #7 · answered by sketch_mylife 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋