Theological glossary · FaithLogic

Believers' baptism (credobaptism)

The conviction that baptism is for those who personally profess faith in Christ, and therefore not for infants.

Latin credo, 'I believe' + baptism.

Every recorded baptism follows a profession of faith (Acts 2:41; 8:12, 36–37; 16:14–15, 31–33; 18:8); Romans 6 and Galatians 3:26–27 tie baptism to faith-union with Christ.

Recovered by the Anabaptists (1525) and central to Baptist, Mennonite, Pentecostal, and most non-denominational churches; usually by immersion.

Baptism is the believer's confession and God's seal on a professed faith; the church is a community of the regenerate, not a mixed covenant body.

Paedobaptists argue from household baptisms, the covenant sign given to children (circumcision), and Jesus' welcome of children; credobaptists reply that none of these records an infant baptism.

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