What are some similarities and differences between Catholicism and the Baptist Church?

Answer 1

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Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church was founded by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, on the Apostle Peter (see St. Matthew 16:17-19) with the guarantee that He would remain with it until the end of the world, and send the Holy Spirit to guide it into all truth. He then commissioned it to preach the Gospel to the entire world, and baptize them. Peter, and his successors, the Popes, have been doing this for twenty centuries now, and, according to God's sworn promise, will continue doing it until the end.

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The Baptist ecclesial community was founded by John Smyth in Amsterdam in the early 17th century as he rejected the interpretation of The Bible that other protestants in the 16th century had given to the Bible. It has no priesthood, no sacraments (save Baptism), and no guarantees from God.

Answer 2

Roman Catholics baptise usually by sprinkilng of water on the person. In the RC church, infant baptism is the norm, where adults make vows on behalf of the child until he or she is able to confirm these at another service called 'confirmation' In the RC church, controversies have surrounded infant baptism. As one example, some catholics still believe that unbaptised babies who die before they can be baptised (such as still-born children) end up in 'Limbo', although this is purely invented by church authorities and is totally unscriptural. Baptists, however, practise adult baptism - when the person is old enough to answer for himself. Baptists always baptise by full immersion in water (in a trough of water in the floor of the church called a baptistry). However, I am not 100% sure of how Roman Catholics see this - but I have always been under the impression that if you are baptised, you are baptised a Christian and not a Catholic, Baptist, Methodist or whatever. baptism was one of the two sacraments instituted by Christ himself (the other being Holy Communion) and as such should transcend over human-made denominations and be valid in whatever form it takes.

Answer 3

They are both christians. Baptists take the bible word for word. If the Bible says the world was created in 6 days, then it was. The catholics have the entire Holy tradition and holy scripture. The Catholics say do not take the bible word for word. If the bible says that the world was created in 6 days, then the world was created in 6 human days, 6 God days, any ammount. The bible is not to be take litteraly, but figuratively. The Catholic Church does say that some things in the bible did happan the exact way they say so in the bible, but Catholocism is not so Bible centric like the Baptists.

Answer 4

Baptist churches are categorized in the Protestant churches category. Years ago every christian was part of the Catholic church, but then the Protestant people broke away because they didn't like the ways of the Catholic church. The Protestants consist of many different church groups, including Baptists.

AnswerThe Catholic Church was founded by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, on the Apostle Peter (see St. Matthew 16:17-19). He guaranteed it, and send the Holy Spirit to guide it until the end of the world, promising to be with it always. It would be ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, and APOSTOLIC. Peter and his successors in Rome (the popes) have been constant ever since. The Baptist Church was one of a number of "churches" that broke away from the churches founded by the first protestants who broke away from the Catholic Church in the 16th century, and founded their "churches" on a mutilated version of the Sacred Scriptures that the Catholic Church had written, and then preserved for all these centuries. The protestants are based entirely on "protesting" doctrines that Our Blessed Lord handed down to us, and the Church has preserved for all this time. Catholics believe that they have free will to either accept or reject Our Blessed Lord. If they accept Him, then everything else is laid out for them in His Church. Protestants believe that their free will extends to HOW they are going to accept Our Blessed Lord, so over the centuries, they have made up a different Christ then the one who founded His Church and said "He who listens to you, listens to me, he who rejects you, rejects me. Every difference in the religions boils down to that.

Answer 5

The difference is quite simple. The Baptist faith is a complete copy of what Jesus told the world what must be done to receive salvation, the holy spirit and forgiveness from God. The Baptist believes that only through BELIEVING that Jesus Christ died on the cross and was raised on the third day, then ASKING him to forgive their sin and come into their heart, can they be saved from eternal damnation. Repentance and a willingness to follow God is shown through the act of being baptized and in the belief that Jesus has done all the work to obtain salvation and right standing with God through the shedding of his blood and the breaking of his body to start a new covenant between humankind and God. Jesus paid for the sin of all who believe. The baptizee, has chosen his or her self to be baptized because of the conviction upon them through living an unholy life and because of the knowledge of how far they have fallen from God's standards even though others may think they were high on mans standards. In this view Baptists have no need to see a priest to ask for forgiveness of their sins. Since Jesus died for us, we go directly to Him to seek repentance - there is NO man between us and the Father.

Baptism is the road to receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit that renews a person's mindset enabling them to be Christ minded. The catholic will receive forgiveness through the instructions of a priest and through the repetitive actions of praying similar prayers in a kind of mantra format. The catholic religion has an allegiance with the Roman Catholic Vatican, the HQ of all things catholic. Out of the two beliefs, the Baptist is far more in line with the teachings of the bible. One only has to look at the Bible to distinguish this fact. Baptist, Christianity Pentecostals are all in the same belief that we need to be repetitive in our repentance in our views to god and that relying on the teachings of Jesus and the belief of the holy spirit starting with baptism, are essential to having a relationship with God.

But the Catholic, Anglican and many other faiths believe that through one's own efforts we can please God which of course the bible describes such actions "as filthy rags before God". The Jews had the law of Moses for over 2000 years and tried to fulfill its 1 through to 10,000 different laws and they could not produce salvation through following the law in their own effort's They had an understanding of God's Holy standards through that same law, were as most people professing a faith don't know his standards and still think they are good people.

Answer 6

The Roman Catholic Church service centers on the priest who performs the Mass, with the celebration of the Eucharist, in which it is believed that the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ (transubstantiation.) The homily, or sermon, is generally short and not the center of the worship service.

The Baptist Church service, like most other Protestant Church services, focuses on the proclamation of the Word, i.e., the reading and preaching of Scripture, so the sermon tends to be longer and becomes the focus of the service. The Lord's Supper (the Eucharist or Communion) might not be celebrated in every worship service, and the bread and wine are believed to symbolically represent the body and blood of Christ.

Answer 7

Baptist churches are Protestant and do not submit to church hierarchies.

Answer 8

Both are Christian denominations.

Catholicism is the oldest Christian denomination, with the Papacy going all the way back to St. Peter the Apostle.

Baptists are Protestants.