Baptists?

[Jaime]

[quote name='BG45' post='1441898' date='Jan 4 2008, 12:14 AM']I had a reply typed out here, but after I passed 1500 words, I decided to post it on my blog, and just link, so as not to completely hijack the thread...

[url="http://mindmirage.blogspot.com/2008/01/reply-to-phatmass-question.html"]http://mindmirage.blogspot.com/2008/01/rep...s-question.html[/url] Hope this answers your question.

Edit: Oh yes, I spent four hours on that... x.x[/quote]


BG

I've got good news and bad news for you.

With your views from your blog, you are more Catholic than many many cradle Catholics.

I really enjoyed your blog entry.

[Brother Adam]

I'm not upset by HS_dad's response. If I WERE talking about Baptists in general, he would be absolutely right. My experience in the GARBC community was for the most part very positive and typically they have a moderate view of Catholics (many believe Catholics are unsaved because they have never accepted Jesus as their personal lord and savior). Most of their sermons are about scripture though, not about Catholics unlike some fundie groups. I also dated an ABC Baptist and have had many Southern Baptist friends. Many of them believed that if Catholics had a sincere conversion as Catholics and remained Catholic they would be saved. As my old friend Dr. Bob Griffin, a BB.com administrator says though "99.9% of all Catholics are going to hell".

I just wish that when I converted I could have brought my 20,000+ post count from BB with me here.

[Mateo el Feo]

[quote name='hot stuff' post='1441960' date='Jan 4 2008, 10:22 AM']I've got good news and bad news for you.

With your views from your blog, you are more Catholic than many many cradle Catholics.[/quote]Yeah, but I'll bet BG doesn't know the secret handshake.

[BG45]

[quote name='Mateo el Feo' post='1442005' date='Jan 4 2008, 02:00 PM']Yeah, but I'll bet BG doesn't know the secret handshake. [/quote]

Alas only the Mason ones. And some frats.

[quote name='hot stuff' post='1441960' date='Jan 4 2008, 10:22 AM']BG

I've got good news and bad news for you.

With your views from your blog, you are more Catholic than many many cradle Catholics.

I really enjoyed your blog entry.[/quote]

Thanks, I think. I left out the quotations from Martin Luther on Mary though to save room, lol. Funny enough I think I'll put them here, because when I showed them to another Baptist, she was amazed at the glorification of God, to which I kinda thought, "Yes...that's kind of the point".

[quote name=''Martin Luther'']"She is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin. . . .God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. God is with her, meaning that all she did or left undone is divine and the action of God in her. Morever, God guarded and protected her from all that might be hurtful to her" Luther's Works, American Edition, volume 43, p40, ed. H. Lehmann

Commentary on the Mangificat by Luther says, "Men have crowded all her glory into a single phrase: The Mother of God, no one can say anything greater of her." and from some other work "She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God, it is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God"[/quote]

[quote name='CatholicAndFanatical' post='1441958' date='Jan 4 2008, 10:05 AM']** void Thread_HiJack() { **

Dude, your blog is right on!

Scott Hahn is amazing isn't he? I think im going to have my Fiance read him or listen to one of his conversion tapes I have. I feel bad, but I forgot all about Scott Hahn until just now.

As for fear..Mother Angelica said it best: Having fear is not the problem.
Doing nothing because you fear is the problem.

I come from a Pentecostal background, I know EXACTLY how you feel about being ridiculed for your belief. Hang in there.

**} //END THREAD HIJACK **[/quote]

Yes Scott Hahn is quite amazing, both his books, and the EWTN show [u]Letter and Spirit[/u]. I really do need to pick up more of his works, right now all I have is the book he co-wrote with Kimberly, [u]Rome Sweet Home[/u].

While Mother Angelica's advice is good, I think I'll take another person's also, Jesus. Matthew 14:27

On the Pentecostal background, I hear ya. Not Pentecostal, but still, close enough. Grandma had a little pamphlet at her house that I thought I brought home with me once, but can't find it, about not marrying a Catholic. Cuz Catholics will steal your soul, steal your children's souls, etc.

[MissyP89]

[quote name='BG45' post='1442041' date='Jan 4 2008, 03:32 PM']On the Pentecostal background, I hear ya. Not Pentecostal, but still, close enough. Grandma had a little pamphlet at her house that I thought I brought home with me once, but can't find it, about not marrying a Catholic. Cuz Catholics will steal your soul, steal your children's souls, etc.[/quote]

Oh, carp...and here I thought I had a chance.

And, well, dear...you are an enigma, even to me.

Rest assured the pham has your back...

[BG45]

[quote name='MissyP89' post='1442052' date='Jan 4 2008, 03:57 PM']Oh, carp...and here I thought I had a chance.

And, well, dear...you are an enigma, even to me.

Rest assured the pham has your back...[/quote]


Glad for that assurance. And you do stand a chance, you wear a cross, not a crucifix...

[HS_Dad]

[quote name='Brother Adam' post='1441921' date='Jan 4 2008, 01:09 AM']He ignored the fact that Brother Adam said he was talking about the Baptistboard and not baptists in general[/quote]

Posted in error. See posts below.

Edited January 5, 2008 by HS_Dad

[HS_Dad]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1441945' date='Jan 4 2008, 08:18 AM']I can affirm Brother Adam's comments about Baptistboard. It is quite anti-catholic. I was over there around the time BA was and I think we even went round the block once or twice about Catholic/protestant issues. But that was a long time ago.[/quote]


No arguments here.

[HS_Dad]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1441945' date='Jan 4 2008, 08:18 AM']I can affirm Brother Adam's comments about Baptistboard. It is quite anti-catholic. I was over there around the time BA was and I think we even went round the block once or twice about Catholic/protestant issues. But that was a long time ago.[/quote]


Multi-post error. Please ignore.

Edited January 5, 2008 by HS_Dad

[HS_Dad]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1441945' date='Jan 4 2008, 08:18 AM']I can affirm Brother Adam's comments about Baptistboard. It is quite anti-catholic. I was over there around the time BA was and I think we even went round the block once or twice about Catholic/protestant issues. But that was a long time ago.[/quote]


Multi-post error. Please ignore.

Edited January 5, 2008 by HS_Dad

[HS_Dad]

[quote name='Brother Adam' post='1441899' date='Jan 4 2008, 12:15 AM']As a former moderator at BB.com I would have pity for them, most of them have been brainwashed by fundamentalist propaganda. Most of the moderators and many of the outspoken anti-catholics in the other religions board have no excuse, but many of them are simply following the tag line of what they grew up with. They really believe that Catholicism is the spawn of satan and want Catholics to "get saved" because they just don't have a clue.[/quote]


Ooops..... There is a new outline presentation mode for threads on my computer... Now I see that you were responding to a more limited questions. My apologies. Bro. Adam.