06-12-2008, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by tcalbrecht 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. | They were wrong to believe that mere rebaptism was heresy. It may have been an error - and I believe it was - but it is not heresy.
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