*Anabaptist?*

[GuitarMia05]

What is Anabaptist?

[Fat]

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."

Do a search on Mennonites.

Fat

[C.I. Scofield]

What is Anabaptist?Hi Mia,

The AnaBaptists were the decendences (SP?) of the Waldensians.

This group was responsible for starting the reformation, You see one of thier people, happened to come down from the mountian where they were living and happened to run into a Catholic monk (I think) and they showed him the Word of God. That man's name was Martin Luther, and the rest, was, well, History.

Here is a link that gets into the history of the group:

http://www.anabaptistnetwork.com/waldensians

and as for your reference to "rocking on" with Jesus Christ.... Please, read this link as well...:

http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/doesjesus.htm

Blessings in Christ Jesus,

CIS
:preach:

[newlite]

so if you believe in believes baptism, and dont get baptised at birth but later, are you an anabapist aswell?

[Crazy Liz]

Hi Mia,

The AnaBaptists were the decendences (SP?) of the Waldensians.

This group was responsible for starting the reformation, You see one of thier people, happened to come down from the mountian where they were living and happened to run into a Catholic monk (I think) and they showed him the Word of God. That man's name was Martin Luther, and the rest, was, well, History.

Here is a link that gets into the history of the group:

http://www.anabaptistnetwork.com/waldensians
I would say the Anabaptist movement probably is not quite as directly connected to the Waldensians as CIS implied, but the Anabaptists do look to them as brothers and sisters who came up with similar ideas earlier in history.

[Crazy Liz]

What is Anabaptist?

This question comes up frequently. Before the holidays, we had started talking about making a sticky thread on this. You can see our discussion and links to older threads answering the same questions here:

http://www.christianforums.com/t1138391-sticky-thread-for-baptistanabaptist-faqs.html

[DiscipleOfIAm]

and as for your reference to "rocking on" with Jesus Christ.... Please, read this link as well...:

http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/doesjesus.htm

I went to the link and read it, and I'm not trying to start a debate or anything and I really don't see where this fits into the OP (I see it now in her signature :thumbsup: ), BUT where in the Bible does it say that CCM is false doctrine? The traditonal hymns of the 1800's were not around at the time of Christ either. Don't you think that there were a lot of folks that were opposed to these hymns and viewed them as some view CCM today?

I believe that our Lord is happy and exhaulted hearing any music, rock to rap, that glorifies Him and worships Him. Just MHO. I personally prefer a mixture of hymns, praise choruses, etc during Sunday Worship services. To each his own, yes?

[GuitarMia05]

so what's the difference between baptist - anabaptist?

[mesz]

Anabaptist have a very Christ centered theology. They tend to take Jesus' words literally, and seek to lead their lives by closely following his words and life. From this stem such beliefs as pacifism (loving your enemies) and refusal to swear oaths in court. This tends to separate them from mainstream baptists.

[ZiSunka]

Hi Mia,

The AnaBaptists were the decendences (SP?) of the Waldensians.

This group was responsible for starting the reformation, You see one of thier people, happened to come down from the mountian where they were living and happened to run into a Catholic monk (I think) and they showed him the Word of God. That man's name was Martin Luther, and the rest, was, well, History.

:doh: Martin Luther was a catholic, not a waldensian. The waldensians didn't live in the mountains until they started to be persecuted for their faith. The anabaptists have a lot in common with waldensians, but they are not direct descendents of the waldensians. Anabaptists were catholics who figured out that salvation is through faith alone and left the catholic church because it taught otherwise. Martin Luther was never one of them, though, in fact, Martin Luther came after the waldensians. The waldensians were already active in northern europe in the late 1400's, around the time Luther was born. There is some evidence that the reformers were affected by the teachings of the waldensians, but mostly the ideas the reformers espoused were from the early catholic church, not the waldensians. The waldensians were the first to be burned at the stake for their faith, and that is not conjecture, but a matter of record of the catholic church. Martin Luther and many others were responsible for starting the reformation, which they hoped would reform the catholic church, not form another church.

[Godsgurl042002]

i didn't know the anabaptist even existed