John was the first Baptist and Christ said what he was doing was right. The problem with all of it is exactly what Christ warned about, many false prophets would come. They would either be ignorant of the scripture (not born again themselves) or twist scripture to form their own cults (not born again). I honestly hate the labels. We are Christians. We need to throw out all traditions and go back to the scripture and start over. So many false doctrines have made it to where 99% of the people reading do not understand and the reason they don’t is because they have already been given a preconceived notion from some false prophet. None of us want to admit that our ancestors were wrong. We all want to believe what we’ve been taught is truth. The thing is, until we are all willing to challenge and question everything then we are doomed to believe lies. C.I. Scofeild and John Nelson Darby were heritics. They made fortunes off of their opinions and it has shaped what most Americans believe to be the gospel. Rome was loosing power to threat of Christianity so they decided (Constitine) made up a story of a vision he saw and decided to make Christianity his power and authority in order to control the masses. Don’t want to loose dem taxes. It kept Rome in power but would go on to lead the greatest genocide the world has ever known. At the hand of the papacy, millions and millions of Christian’s were killed for the simple possession of scripture of for having church outside of the Catholic Church. They still teach that outside of the Catholic Church there is not salvation. This would crucify Christ daily. Christ died that I would not have to go to a man to intercede between me and Christ. A priest does not have the power to forgive sin. Christ did that on the cross. And if I have the gift of the comforter then I need nothing but my own soul to go to the throne of God and share my petitions in the name of His son who He was pleased to Crush on the Cross so that I would come back to the Father. The gospel really is simple and easy to understand if you are born again, study, and do so in context. So yes I was wrong by saying they were baptist but it just seems the closest to what the founders taught. Paul was my hero!
That is interesting.
A lot of people say the apostolic church aka Orthodoxy or Messianic Jews were the first.
Keep in mind that the Baptists are a branch of Lutheranism that came many years later.
John was the first Baptist and Christ said what he was doing was right. The problem with all of it is exactly what Christ warned about, many false prophets would come. They would either be ignorant of the scripture (not born again themselves) or twist scripture to form their own cults (not born again). I honestly hate the labels. We are Christians. We need to throw out all traditions and go back to the scripture and start over. So many false doctrines have made it to where 99% of the people reading do not understand and the reason they don’t is because they have already been given a preconceived notion from some false prophet. None of us want to admit that our ancestors were wrong. We all want to believe what we’ve been taught is truth. The thing is, until we are all willing to challenge and question everything then we are doomed to believe lies. C.I. Scofeild and John Nelson Darby were heritics. They made fortunes off of their opinions and it has shaped what most Americans believe to be the gospel. Rome was loosing power to threat of Christianity so they decided (Constitine) made up a story of a vision he saw and decided to make Christianity his power and authority in order to control the masses. Don’t want to loose dem taxes. It kept Rome in power but would go on to lead the greatest genocide the world has ever known. At the hand of the papacy, millions and millions of Christian’s were killed for the simple possession of scripture of for having church outside of the Catholic Church. They still teach that outside of the Catholic Church there is not salvation. This would crucify Christ daily. Christ died that I would not have to go to a man to intercede between me and Christ. A priest does not have the power to forgive sin. Christ did that on the cross. And if I have the gift of the comforter then I need nothing but my own soul to go to the throne of God and share my petitions in the name of His son who He was pleased to Crush on the Cross so that I would come back to the Father. The gospel really is simple and easy to understand if you are born again, study, and do so in context. So yes I was wrong by saying they were baptist but it just seems the closest to what the founders taught. Paul was my hero!
You are not wrong because there is talk of uniting the Christian faiths once more.
I’m no catholic but I would have defended the priest. Jesus wouldn’t have stood for that shit. Ida beat that bishes ass.