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Old 06-12-2008, 03:24 PM
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The heresy they share in common is the requirement for rebaptism of those not baptized by immersion or baptized as infants.
That is hardly heresy.
According to Schaff (as noted by Dr. McMahon), "All the Reformers retained the custom of infant baptism and opposed rebaptism as heresy." (History of the Christian Church, vol. 7, The German Reformation, p 607)

Granted, this opposition was in the historical context of the Anabaptist controversy, but there is no difference between rebaptism of an infant by a Baptist vs. rebaptism of an infant by an Anabaptist.
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