How do Anabaptists and baptist differ?

Question

Are they different? Explain

Answer 1

"Anabaptist" is a greek term meaning to re-baptize. In other words, if someone had been baptized as an infant, the Anabaptists would insist upon a second baptism when the person came of age. Today, unlike the usual types of Baptists, the Anabaptists are more theologically aligned with Mennonites, Brethren and other groups. They are often quite conservative. Many of them are pacifists, and take the Bible as an authoratative (and usually literal) source.

Here's an Anabaptist website:

http://www.anabaptists.org

Answer 2

A question asked by many and known by few...anabaptists are considered the for lack of a better word purest branches of the baptist faith in that during the middle ages with the catholic and anglican religions were the religions enforced by the kings or queens, that did not conform. More simply put they are the branches of baptist faith that have been around since the early church.
Some branches of Baptists did not come to be until people became more literate and could study the Bible themselves and see that what the church (catholic) had been teaching them was not lining up with what the Bible said. That is when they formed the other branches of baptist faith...
None of this is to say that one branch is better than another...the beliefs from a anabaptist and regular baptist my line up perfectly...it's mostly just a difference in whether it was formed early or later.
The Anabaptists who would not conform to the Catholics ways, were the ones persecuted that you read about in books like Foxes Book Of Martyrs...

A great book to read to learn more about the Anabaptists down throught the years is "The Trail of Blood" by J.M. Carroll...I've included a link to the electronic version.

Answer 3

Historically Anabaptists are Mennonites and so forth, and Baptists are later English. Anabaptists in this sense sometimes say they are not Protestants because they do not come from Luther and other 'Reformers', but Baptists are Protestants.

Answer 4

Both Baptists and Anabaptist reject infant baptism for voluntary "Believer's Baptism" and most use total immersion.
and both appeal to the Bible as theRule of Life and true source of doctrine,as well as seeking a simpler form of worship and community.

Baptists came out of the Reformed branch of Protestantism and the Church of England in the late 16thearly 17th centand Anabaptists("baptizing again") came from different founders(many from the first generation of Protestant reformers)in the 16th cent and are in such denominations as Mennonites,Hutterites,Amish,and Bruderhof.

Anabaptists have different church structures( they may have bishops) and Baptists have a congregational one(with the local congregation as the ultimate church authority)
Many Anabaptist groups are "Peace Churches(Pacifist)" and some have a high degree of"community of goods' likethe Hutterites or separation from society and dedication to simplicity(avoiding accumulation of needless goods like technology) like the Amish

Answer 5

Big differences. In doctrine, in tradition, in practices, in appearances, etc.

Of course, there is a spectrum of Anabaptist belief as there is amongst Baptists. There are conservative and liberal factions in both groups.

some of the anabaptists are Brethren, Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite. Each has different customs, traditions, doctrines, etc

look at
http://www.learnthebible.org/q_a_anabaptist.htm

god bless