Re: Purgatory?

":+D >" <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 06:39:21 -0700, "Iconoclast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following funny stuff in Usenet News'Froups! :
>
> >
> >Baptist don't even call themselves a "Church".
>
> Ours does.
> I know of no other Baptist churches which do not call themselves a
> BAPTIST CHURCH !

An individual Church.  It is not "The Baptist Church"

>
> >Those individual "churches" or "fellowships" belong to one of several
> >"Associations".
> >Why are you participating here is you don't know what a Baptist is?
> >Do you live in a little town where they have one Baptist Church and think
> >that is it?
> >You use the term "Baptist Faith".  That is a Catholic term.  Are you
> >Catholic?  There is no organization called Baptist Faith.
> The Baptist faith refers to the Baptist Church.
>  and No, I am NOT a romanist.

There are individual Baptist congregations that call themselves a Church.

There is not "Baptist Church" except for small units calling themselves
such.

The Southern Baptist Association (The LARGEST) does not call itself a
church.
Neither does the American Baptist or the Conservative Baptist.
There is no "The" Baptist Faith.