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Treatises - Treatise 11

…t off all delay and slowness in our words, to put aside the twists of human speech, and to set down only those things that God speaks, by which Christ urges His servants to martyrdom. Those divine commands themselves should be provided, as if they were weapons for the fighters. Let them be the call of the war trumpet. Let them be the battle cry for the warriors. Let the ears be stirred by them. Let the minds be made ready by them. Let the powers of both soul and body be strengthened by them for every endurance of affliction. Let us, who by the Lord's permission have given the first baptism to believers, also prepare each one for the second, urging and teaching that this is a baptism greater in grace, higher in power, more precious in honor—a baptism in which angels baptize—a baptism in which God and His Christ rejoice—a baptism after which no one sins anymore—a baptism that completes the growth of our faith—a baptism that, as we depart from the world, immediately joins us to God. In the baptism of water, the remission of sins is received; in the baptism of blood, the crown of virtues. This must be embraced and desired, and asked for in all the pleas of our prayers, so that we who a…

Romans 6

Continue in Sin After Being Forgiven? Romans 6 And somehow Anabaptists have largely lost this. I don't think all of them have, but it says this about baptism. "Baptism shall be given to all those who have learned repentance and amendment of life and who believe truly that their sins are taken away by Christ and to all those who walk in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and wish to be buried with him in death so that they may be resurrected with him and to all those who with this significance req...

From The Beginning It Was Not So #3 - Bill Shiley

And they began as students of Zwingli. But when he began to compromise, they withdrew, and they continued praying and studying together and discussing what it meant to follow Jesus. And on January 25th of 1525, they got to the point they were convinced that baptism as a responsible believer was necessary for salvation, and they rebaptized each other, which was against the decree of the city council. And because of that, that iconic action of simple obedience, they were termed Anabaptist, which was originally a negative term, a mockery. But that was just an icon. That issue of baptism was just an icon or a representation of what they were willing to suffer to, in a very simple, practical way, obey Jesus.

Menno-Protestants 2 - David Bercot

The Father, all he does, he sees the blood of Christ, and that covers you. He doesn't see your sin. He sees the blood of Christ." I mean, I heard sermons like that all the time. All right. So yeah, I'd say if you believe in imputed righteousness, you don't fit my definition of an Anabaptist, okay? It's not copyrighted. You can still call yourself one. All right. The third one and final is how do we view the Sermon on the Mount? Now, both the early Christians and the original Anabaptists, they viewed the Sermon on the Mount as the law of Christ, that's how the Dortrek Confession calls it, as being a central teaching of Christianity. They would say that in addition to having genuine faith in Christ and having been baptized as a believer, living by the Sermon on the Mount is something that defines a real Christian.

Hebrews 6:4-6 - Scariest verse in the Bible Explained - Can you LOSE your SALVATION? Jason Willis

But Christ was crucified once, and he died for sin once. And so there is but one, not several, baptisms. Since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put him to open shame." So there's a few reasons why I may have never heard this before. I think it's possible because of two relatively popular beliefs. One is that baptism is a symbol. In today's culture, baptism is mostly taught as being merely a symbol, an unnecessary symbol of a reality that has already taken place in the believer's life. With this predominant teaching, it makes perfect sense that we don't hear about people lining up to wash their sins away a second time. Many people don't even get in the water the first time.

Separation from the World: Lessons from Early Anabaptists

Now, I'm going to just kind of make a couple of caveats about some terms and so on. This term Anabaptism, I really don't like it. I really don't like it. In fact, I have stopped referring to myself as an Anabaptist. Now, I can't get away from the term completely because it has such currency today. In fact, people will say, "Well, you know I'm an Anabaptist," and so on. Well, Anabaptist literally means rebaptizer, a person who's been baptized a second time. And it's a term that these believers who practiced Believers' Baptism were given as a nickname, as a derogatory nickname that was given to them by the detractors.

Continue in Sin After Being Forgiven? Romans 6

And somehow Anabaptists have largely lost this. I don't think all of them have, but it says this about baptism. "Baptism shall be given to all those who have learned repentance and amendment of life and who believe truly that their sins are taken away by Christ and to all those who walk in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and wish to be buried with him in death so that they may be resurrected with him and to all those who with this significance request it of us." So yeah, the original teaching was the significance of baptism is you're dying with Christ and raised to new life. And they said, "The people who are ready to be baptized with that significance is who we will give baptism to." But like you say, somehow the Schleinheim Confession has kind of gotten buried under a lot of different Protestant creeds over the centuries.

Gospel Simplicity, Austin Suggs Interviews David Bercot. Why Did You Choose Anabaptism?

It's sometimes called the Radical Reformation when it started. Anabaptist just means rebaptizer. It was a name their enemies gave them because they believed in believers' baptism. And so they didn't accept infant baptism. And so they were persecuted not only by the Roman Catholics, but equally as much by the Lutherans, by Calvin, by Zwingli, put to death by all three of those, the reformers and their followers. So yeah, they lived in persecution until they finally came to America. And most of them ended up moving to the United States to escape persecution because yeah, it continued all the way into the 1700s. They weren't being put to death at that point, at least by the Protestants, but they were still being jailed and things like that.

"Sacred Roots: The Anabaptists, the Sacraments, and the Words of Jesus" by Dean Taylor

He says, we have evidence enough from the word of God to convince us that baptism for the forgiveness of sins is a gospel doctrine, that in this institution, the believer can have all his sins washed away. But how astonishing it is that so many of our modern Christians should overlook and set at not this part of the counsel of God. They will not have the forgiveness of sins to be connected with baptism. It's too mean, too contemptible, a thing to be connected with salvation. They have become wiser than Christ, the apostles, the old fathers, and therefore will not suffer baptism to be a means of salvation. Very strong. You, you, they had like general conferences where they're, they're all even discussing what to do with ministers who don't use this kind of language in their, um, in their groups.

"Sacred Roots: The Anabaptists, the Sacraments, and the Words of Jesus" by Dean Taylor

Hello, brother John. Uh, if baptism is connected so closely with the washing of sins, and I'm not talking about baptism or regeneration, but those two are held pretty closely together, then why did the early church require a two-year instruction to catechumens before they baptized them? I mean, they put baptism two years off into the future if you became a believer. Yeah, it's, it's a great question. And, and again, I'm glad you brought up the term baptism regeneration. I don't like the term. Um, I don't like transubstantiation and I don't like baptism regeneration because both seem to imply something that I don't think is correct. You can, you scientifically explain yourself away, but if baptism regeneration, what tends to people mean is that you are illuminated and everything starts in the water itself.