Question

What is an Anabaptist?

Answer 1

Anabaptists believe that baptism is valid only when the candidate confesses his or her faith in Christ and wants to be baptized.

This believer's baptism is opposed to baptism of infants, who are not able to make a conscious decision to be baptized.

Answer 2

Anabaptism is a Christian movement which traces its origins to the Radical Reformation. The movement is generally seen as an offshoot of Protestantism, although this view has been challenged by some Anabaptists.

he name Anabaptist means "one who baptizes again". Their persecutors named them this, referring to the practice of baptizing persons when they converted or declared their faith in Christ, even if they had been baptized as infants