Can someone please explain the difference here please?
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me toomomof4angels said:No, we are not anti-Baptist.![]()
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The term anabaptist was used to describe and define certain Christians during the Reformation.
These Christians rejected infant baptism, choosing instead believer's baptism.
Since many of them had been baptized in their infancy, they chose to be rebaptized as believing adults. So their enemies called them anabaptists -- "re-baptizers."
This was taken from the Anabaptist site. and I got this from there.
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Apparently I am an AnaBaptist, lol.![]()
CJ.23 said:I'm not an Anabaptist, but many of my friends are. The movement historically is about as far from the Southern Baptists as I can imagine; it began as a perjorative term, an insult, and was adopted with pride. Most Anabaptists come from Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland or Poland. They were persecuted by Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans and Congregationalists alike, and the best known Anabaptist denominations are the Mennonites and the Amish.
The Mennonites I have met have been radically non-violent pacifists, strong opponenets of any war, of State and Civil religion (religious patriotism), very much involve in Social Justice and the Social Gospel. their stress tends to be on the life of Jesus ratherthan his death. I can see absolutely no common ground historically between the Baptists and the Anabaptists, but ther eis not a lot of common ground between English Baptists and Southern Baptists either. As to why the Anabaptists and Baptists share a forum, I have absolutely no idea, as I think Anabaptists really belong on their own, or perhaps sharing with the Quakers?
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