Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
Years ago, I listened to a series of history classes taught by a professor at Columbia University in New York City. He taught that history is more of an art than a science. History happened—but none of us were there. Historians use archaeological, anthropological, and documentary evidence to paint a picture of what they believe happened, usually from a preconceived or personally preferred perspective.
He gave the illustration of a Korean student he once taught whose goal was to become a credentialed historian and then write the first history of Korea from a positive Korean bias.
Modern historians, for instance, often have a different—less pro-American—perspective. They're rewriting American history through their own lens, criticizing previous biases.
Welsh Baptists like Jonathan Davis, Berlin Hisel, and others (in the 19th and 20th centuries), drawing from documents such as those by the poet Martial and other early Christian traditions, claimed that Pudens, Linus, and Claudia were from the British Isles and brought the gospel to Britain and Wales in the first century.
While it can’t be “proven” per se, (no history can) historians have called it a very plausible legend.
I am convinced that at least some Baptists have a history that lies outside of—and predates—Roman Catholicism. This history is found both in the European Anabaptists and in early Christians in the British Isles, whose story very plausibly connects to Pudens, Linus, and Claudia—believers who had firsthand relationships with the Apostle Paul.
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Baptists Before Rome: History, Bias, and the Untold Story of Early British Christians
💬 Was the gospel in Britain before Rome claimed the Church?
Some believe Claudia, Pudens, and Linus—mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:21—carried the gospel from Rome to the British Isles in the first century. It’s a story many Welsh Baptists have passed down.
👉 If true, it connects early British Christianity—and possibly even Baptist roots—directly to the Apostle Paul.
📜 Do you believe our Baptist heritage predates Catholicism?
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