Killing of Anabaptists. (Amsterdam, 1535)

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 · 1h  · John Calvin (1509-64) French Theologian and Swiss Reformer. Along with all the other Reformers following Rome’s Paedobaptism (Infant Sprinkling)Detested the ANABAPTISTS Credobaptism(Believers Baptism)*ANABAPTISTS TO BE PUT TO DEATH* “BLASPHEMERS”The REFORMERS needed more REFORMING Post Courtesy of: “David Jackson”Believer’s Baptism is Naughty (Calvin)Therefore when men make this argument: “Our Lord commanded his Apostles to preach before they baptized, and hath said that he which shall believe & shall be baptized, shall be saved [Mark 16:16]; and therefore it followeth that none ought to be admitted to the sacrament of baptism, but he that already believeth”; This is a naughty conclusion. (John Calvin, A Short Instruction for to Arm All Good Christian People Against the Pestiferous Errors of the Common Sect of Anabaptists)One might wonder, what is it about believer’s baptism that the Reformers found so objectionable? After all, every baptism recorded in the Bible was of believers, but it infuriated the Reformers and they frequently executed people for engaging in it. The answer isn’t based on the Bible but on the Reformer’s view of the church-state. To them, as to Catholics, obedience to the demands of the church-state was axiomatic. When Anabaptists baptized someone as an adult whom the church-state had baptized as a baby, they were in effect thumbing their nose at the Reformers saying, we don’t recognize your authority to declare someone a Christian. They simply would not tolerate such insolence and hence wrote that offenders must be hanged: Secret preachers [his term for Anabapatists] are in no case to be tolerated … These are the thieves and murderers of whom Christ spoke in John 7, persons who invade another man’s parish and who usurp another man’s office, a matter not bidden them but rather forbidden. And a citizen is obliged, if and when such a secret preacher comes to him, before he listens to him or lets him teach, to inform his civil magistrate as well as the pastor whose parishioner he is. … They must be neither tolerated nor listened to, even though he seeks to teach the pure Gospel … let him keep his mouth shut. If he refuses this then let the magistrate consign scamp into the hands of his proper master – whose name is Meister Hans [the hangman]. (Luther, 1530) Obviously, genuine Christians don’t murder people for getting baptized. Christ certainly didn’t teach that people who were baptized should be killed. Such acts are plainly demonic and tell us all we need to know about those who engaged in these orgies of killing. Image: Killing of Anabaptists. (Amsterdam, 1535)