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milimac
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Which non-Catholic denominations baptize infants?
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Della
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Those that retain some/all of the sacramental teachings of the Church, such as the Anglican/Episcopalians, Lutherans, etc., and the Orthodox.
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rr1213
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Most of them other than the Baptists. These would include, among others, Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, etc.
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O.S.Luke
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Lutherans, Anglican/Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and my own United Methodist tradition. There may be others.
Protestant military chaplains are divided into Protestants and Liturgucal Protestants regarding infant baptism.
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carol_marie
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Those who don’t: Evangelical free, Church of God, Church of Christ, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons (?), Assemblies of God, Baptist, most Non-denominational.
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mercygate
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You can add the Plymouth Brethren to that list.
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mercygate
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Reformed Dutch Church.
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carol_marie
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That’s one I’ve not heard of? Are they a regional church?
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jmcrae
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Those Protestant denominations that stem from the Anglican, Lutheran, and Calvinist/Presbyterian line do baptize infants.
Those who come out of the Mennonite/Anabaptist tradition do not.
Those who come out of the Mennonite/Anabaptist tradition do not.
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lak611
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I have a good friend who is Methodist. The Methodist Church baptizes infants (by sprinkling). They have Godparents, who are to raise the child in the Methodist Faith if the parents are unable or unwilling. Lutherans also have infant baptism by sprinkling. A familiy member of mine was a lifelong Lutheran, but she started to attend a Baptist Church because her Lutheran Parish closed due to lack of membershp. The Baptist Church told her that she needed to be baptized to become a member. She told them that she was already baptized (as an infant) and baptism was a
Sacrament that was only given once!
She did not join that Baptist Church; she found another Lutheran Church to attend, even though it was over ten miles away from her house! :yup: :dancing: 
God Bless her! 
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Sacrament that was only given once!
She did not join that Baptist Church; she found another Lutheran Church to attend, even though it was over ten miles away from her house! :yup: :dancing: God Bless her! :bible1:
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mercygate
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Here’s the Wiki article.
In my part of the country (metro New York) we have a lot of Dutch Reform tradition. I have family roots in western Michigan, where the Dutch Reform have a big presence (Holland, Michigan?).
The people who bought Manhattan from the natives were Dutch Reformed. They were the pillars of early American society (the Roosevelts originally came from that tradition) well into the English domination and many were prominent the American Revolution. My town is littered with 18th & 19th Century brownstone farmhouses, all in the Dutch style. The church on the corner, built in 1801, was founded in the mid-18th Century. Many graves in the churchyard are from people born in the 17th Century. Peter Stuyvesant was one of these prominent Dutchmen, and Erasmus Hall, a public high school, was originally founded by the Dutch in 1786.
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Will_Pick
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GOOD ANSWERI have a good friend who is Methodist. The Methodist Church baptizes infants (by sprinkling). They have Godparents, who are to raise the child in the Methodist Faith if the parents are unable or unwilling. Lutherans also have infant baptism by sprinkling. A familiy member of mine was a lifelong Lutheran, but she started to attend a Baptist Church because her Lutheran Parish closed due to lack of membershp. The Baptist Church told her that she needed to be baptized to become a member. She told them that she was already baptized (as an infant) and baptism was a
Sacrament that was only given once!
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Steadfast
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It’s kind of an academic point but English and American Baptists don’t really come from the Mennonite/Anabaptist tradition although it may seem like they do and they migh tlike to pretend that they do.
In reality they began as a more extreme end of the English dissenting movement. Their doctrine, with the exception of the mode and recipients of baptism, is nearly identical with that of the Congregationalists, who in turn are just like the Presbyterians except when it comes to Church government.
It is possible that the English Baptists came to their conviction about believers baptism after making contact with Anabaptists in Holland, but they certainly didn’t take anything else from them.
It is just as possible that these English dissenters came to the same conclusions about baptism as the Anabaptists simultaneously and without any necessary contact.
Another interesting point is that both the first Baptists and the first Anabaptists didn’t practice immersion, but, like their credobaptist brethren, poured or sprinkled.
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jmcrae
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Quite possibly, since John Smyth (the original founder of the Baptists) was, in fact, a Dutchman.
That’s very interesting - I had not known that.
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