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Posted on 04/24/2002 at 14:32:51  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Spero Forum is a new website for non-Catholics and Catholics to discuss their faith and their differences. Everyone in good faith is welcome to post, ask and answer questions, or just browse the boards. Happy Posting!

Posted on 09/22/2004 at 22:27:21  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

hmm...that's a cool trick.

Welcome annasong!

Posted on 09/23/2004 at 07:26:42  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Good Morning
I am off to work
but I just wanted to connect again

Yes - it is a bit confusing learning to get into this site.
I think the 'Ads' on the top of the page get one to think that we somehow missed getting on to the discussion page.

Anyway - I really am so amazed that this forum REALLY actually WELCOMES dialoge between ALL Christian in the Body of Christ: Protestants and Catholics.

What a beautiful spirit.

I was wondering why it reads, however,
"Baptist, Protestant & Catholic"?

I thought Baptists were Portestant.

Posted on 09/23/2004 at 09:42:16  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

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I thought Baptists were Protestant.

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Yes, but most will deny it stating that they have always been since the time of Christ.

Posted on 09/23/2004 at 13:50:30  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

That is interesting, lub

that Baptists say they are not Protestant

I learn something new everyday. I didn't even wonder about the three religions. Must be walking around in a fog.[dunce]

Posted on 09/23/2004 at 15:57:37  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Well I was raised in a Baptist home.
In fact my father was a Baptist minister (he has gone home to be with the Lord now)
But we NEVER considered ourselves something other than "Protestant'.
I ran across that in a conversation with a Baptist fellow who did not consider himself Protestant - anyway
its interesting
Maybe its different in the States -

Posted on 09/23/2004 at 16:21:42  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

that is interesting...I'd never heard before either that Baptist's weren't protestant until I was on this forum, and a couple of Baptist ministers strictly said that they were NOT protestant...almost like that was an insult to them. Go figure??? the times, they are a'changin!

Posted on 09/23/2004 at 17:57:55  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

It's a case of their wanting to have it both ways: they don't want to be Catholic, yet they acknowledge that the Catholic Church has the advantage of historicity--it can trace beliefs back much further than the time of the Protestant Reformation.

Other more mainstream Baptists fully recognize their coming from either Anabaptists or the Church of England.

Posted on 09/23/2004 at 19:32:03  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

As a Baptist, I had no qualms with being called Protestant.

Posted on 12/01/2004 at 08:20:18  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Hi. I enjoyed reading some of the topics here.
I hope to join you.
Spare me if my sentences are strange.

Posted on 12/01/2004 at 08:29:51  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Konichiwa, Yuriko-san.

Posted on 12/01/2004 at 08:42:19  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Hi Yuriko, and welcome!!

Does "Yuriko" have a meaning? (I probably should say, what is the meaning? )

God bless,
Diana

Posted on 12/01/2004 at 12:14:41  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Yuriko means 'Yuri's child' and Yuri means 'lily'.

Konnichiwa has a separate 'n' sound.

(I just finished proofreading some papers so I am in Grammar Nazi mode.)

Posted on 12/01/2004 at 13:07:03  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Thanks, Benedict

Posted on 12/02/2004 at 03:39:30  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Thank you, Diana.
Yes, "Yuriko" means "Lily girl" (as "ko" used to be attached to girls' names, though adding "ko" makes the name sound old-fashioned).
In fact, this is my daughter's name, taken from the Bible " Consider
the lilies of the field..."
I understand Western people are often named after biblical personages orsaints.
Do all of Western people's names have some bible-related meaning?

Posted on 12/02/2004 at 08:25:17  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Quite often they have Biblical origins, but only Christians pick them specifically for that reason. Catholics still take Saints' names at Baptism and Confirmation - I don't know if any other groups do.