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Old 06-12-2008, 03:53 PM
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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.
Your opinion is noted, but it is not historically inappropriate to identify rebaptism as heresy (in this case, error of a fundamental sort with strikes at the very nature of the covenant).
If someone believes that their baptism was not legitimate, then I do not see why they should be labeled a "heretic" for being re-baptized.
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