Cradle Southern Baptist here who eventually let his cradle Episcopalian wife convert him. We have many former Catholic members in our church, all of whom feel very comfortable with our liturgy. There are a couple more differences, as I understand:
Clergy, male or female, may marry. (That might have been mentioned)
We consider all the faithful departed to be saints, not just those who've been canonized first or whose feast days we recognize (though not necessarily observe).
Your dig at Baptists for what they call the 'security of the believer' isn't all that off base. A lot do justify bad behavior on that basis, although it's not at all what the doctrine was intended for. The idea was that true repentence can always restore right standing, without having to go through ecclesiastical courts or other such rituals. As noted, there are numerous places in the epistles (James, Hebrews, I John, etc.) where it's pointed out that works are the evidence of faith, and that faith without works is empty.
BTW, why don't Baptists have sex standing up?
It looks too much like dancing.
Clergy, male or female, may marry. (That might have been mentioned)
We consider all the faithful departed to be saints, not just those who've been canonized first or whose feast days we recognize (though not necessarily observe).
Your dig at Baptists for what they call the 'security of the believer' isn't all that off base. A lot do justify bad behavior on that basis, although it's not at all what the doctrine was intended for. The idea was that true repentence can always restore right standing, without having to go through ecclesiastical courts or other such rituals. As noted, there are numerous places in the epistles (James, Hebrews, I John, etc.) where it's pointed out that works are the evidence of faith, and that faith without works is empty.
BTW, why don't Baptists have sex standing up?
It looks too much like dancing.