[AlaninSA]

Since this was a single paragraph after a discussion on protestants, are all of us God fearing, bible beleaving, Jesus following Christians who are NOT Catholic to surmise that the Roman Catholic church views us all as members of heretical churchs? i.e. is this sentence inclusive of ALL protestants? i.e. non-Roman catholic, non-Orthodox Christians?

I'll be your huckleberry.

Yes.

Think about it - in terms of the Catholic Church. In our view, all other denominations came after the formation of the Catholic church. Lutherans, Baptists, Presbys and Methodists were all born of movements and persons working years after the establishment of the Catholic Church.

The Bible, holidays and many of the beliefs of these various denominations all stem from Catholicism - and the differences of belief all stem from the ideological differences of individuals (Wesley, Calvin, Luther, etc.).

[tenn2005]

"Think about it - in terms of the Catholic Church. In our view, all other denominations came after the formation of the Catholic church. Lutherans, Baptists, Presbys and Methodists were all born of movements and persons working years after the establishment of the Catholic Church."

This is a false statement. The true church of the Bible which was founded by Jesus and preached by his apostles predates the Catholic church by several hundred years.

[AnalogReigns]

Of course the churches in Jerusalem, Antioch, Greece and a few more in what is now Turkey are older than that in Rome, and would rightly argue it was the See of Rome which broke away from the rest of the Christian Church, not visa versa... so just who is the schimatic?

The Bible, catholicity and orthodox beliefs have at least (really more, when you count Jerusalem) as much root in these eastern churches than in Latin Rome.

[TexConfederate1861]

Or perhaps you might look at it from the ORTHODOX point of view. You guys split, and then came everybody else......

[Dewy]

Wrong.... The Baptist church was never part of the RCC. Ever here the phrase Ana Baptist. Those were the ones who were sewn asunder, fillet alive, burned at the steak, beheaded, disemboweled, all because they did not believe in infant baptisim.

To that old Bull I'll never bow. Christ, and Christ alone is my Saviour, and to Him alone shall I bow.