RE: Help with a Catholic
July 27, 2011 at 2:46 am
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2011 at 2:49 am by Godscreated.)
(July 27, 2011 at 1:32 am)Hurny Wrote:
Well thanks for the respectful reply. I do appreciate the help everyone is giving me the only thing I wish is that we could focus a little more on reasoning through the arguments with a little less irrelevant criticism's. I guess I'm to blame also because I make my posts too long and cram too many topics in one. But I think I can say my main priority is to find out which arguments line up best with reason and seem to make sense of the universe.
I haven't talked to my coworker too much about the differences in Christian denominations but I have studied them a bit in history courses and in some books I've read. The thing that I guess I don't understand is the reformation. As you mentioned some what and from what I've heard other non-catholics mention, they all say things about the Catholics being some bad institution but wasn't it the only Christian church for the 1500 years before the reformation?
Also if you don't mind educating me a bit, where or when I guess did Baptist's begin? I only really know about Lutheran's and the other guy who worked with him in the reformation.
The baptist can trace their history back to Amsterdam and John Smyth in the early 1600's, there are however many baptist denominations, I'm a member of the Southern Baptist. We believe in full immersion baptism at a time close to one's conversion, we believe in once saved always saved, we believe that the Bible is the true word of God, we believe in the virgin birth, we do not believe in predestination, we do not believe in infant baptisim which is one of the main reasons the baptiat were formed. We also believe and accept that all Southern Baptist are not required to accept all that I have just written, we are free to form opinions of what we see as the truth as long as we do not use said practice to divided the church. The southern baptist is generally conservative but there are liberals too. I guess that the most important thing to Southern Baptist is salvation comes through faith and faith alone and that works are generated through faith in the living Christ. There is more but this is what most Southern Baptist believe.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
