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    Believer's baptism or adult baptism (occasionally called credobaptism, from the Latin word credo meaning "I believe") is the practice of baptizing those...
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  • Protestantism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches generally...
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    irrelevant. If, on the other hand, it is an act of the believer—as the Baptists believe in believer's baptism—the mode of the application of the water is of extreme...
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    denied the validity of infant baptism, which was the normal practice when their movement started and practiced believer's baptism instead. Several groups related...
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    infants; many others, such as Baptist Churches, regard only believer's baptism as true baptism. In certain denominations, such as the Eastern and Oriental...
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    is affirmed by the person having complete immersion in water for a believer's baptism. Other specific beliefs based on biblical interpretation can vary...
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    Doing Baptism Baptist Style – Believer's Baptism Archived 7 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine) "After the proclamation of faith, the baptismal water...
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    alongside the Mennonites and Quakers. Distinctive practices include believer's baptism by forward trine immersion; a threefold love feast consisting of feet...
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  • death, burial and resurrection of Christ who died for our sins and the believer's own death to sin, burial of a sinful nature, and resurrection to a new...
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  • that baptism is valid only when candidates freely confess their faith in Christ and request to be baptized. Commonly referred to as believer's baptism, it...
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