Can someone explain the anabaptist movement?
JVAC said:Well they were a squirlly bunch of reformers. They were composed of three main factions, the Hutterites, the Mennonites and the South German/Swiss Anabaptists. These people believed that believers must be baptized after they commit to following Jesus Christ. They were also Pacifist, and believed that there should be no holding of the sword. They also did not subscribe to "Real Presence" in the Eucharist.
The Hutterites went a little further and actually had communal living with no real ownership of possesions. The Hutterites eventually died out. The mennonites remain, and who knows what happened to the South Germans.
one of the black marks on the anabaptist splinter ....JVAC said:I don't recolect, I have read some trials of the Anabaptists, where they were tried and executed for being and doing rebaptism (which, personally, I see as a sin). It was a nasty business!!
Micael Sadler , excatholic priest , and nun led one of groups .... rejecting the teaching of " limbo " and infants who die with original sin , citing the baptisms of John and Jesus ; the dedication of Jesus and Samuel ;desired to baptize people as adults , with full knowledge of what they were making a commitment to , understand the baptismal vows of rejecting satan .... an infant cannot do this , though sponsor / parent can cover child with their faith until child reaches age of reason ...
Maybe you can elaborate more on the Munster (Munich) Anabaptists, I am so curious.
pmarquette said:one of the black marks on the anabaptist splinter ....
an end time group Lead by Menno Simmons ( as with charismatic founders and often tragic ends .... Waco Texas , Jim Jones , founders of Jehovah's Witnesses , 7th Day Adventist's , Millerite's , etc. ) who seized the city , to await the end of the world and the return of Jesus .... They were attacked , defeated , imprisoned , killed by both catholic and protestants .