What is the difference between Baptist and Catholic?
The differences aren’t as profound as the similarities. Both branches believe in a Divine Trinity. Both believe in Divine Revelation through the Scriptures. Both believe in the necessity of Baptism, the necessity of Confession, and the importance of avoiding sin. Both celebrate devotions – studies of and prayers and meditations on the lives of the saints. Baptists do not hold clergy to be celibate, and do not believe in the mediation of a priest in Confession (ie, confess only to God directly). Catholics accept confession to God directly and confession with the mediation of a priest. Baptists generally require a Proclamation of Faith (Altar Call) before Baptism, while Catholics see Baptism as pure Grace that cannot be changed regardless of one’s actions, and accept that the Proclamation of Faith can come later if one is baptized as an infant. Baptists see the Lord’s Supper as purely symbolic. Catholics see the Eucharist as both symbol and reality (that Christ is Present in the Eucharis
