from the Scriptures wrote:
No they begin in 1521AD with the Anabaptist heretics. That's why the Reformers were so antagonised and astonished by their recent appearance.
Affusion is the correct method of the Biblical baptism of infants who were the children of covenanted parents.
Todays Baptist church is only a couple, maybe three, centuries old.
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Have you noticed Mike how Arminian philosophy always forgets to factor in sin and its effect upon the mortal.

real protestant wrote:
1. Stop agreeing with me its embarrassing.
2. "“The organization of our denomination (Baptist) began in the last grand transitional age, in the Protestant Reformation. In that transition we were far to the front, on the skirmish line. We were the radicals of radicals. Of the three great reformers—Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli—Zwingli was the most radical, so that Luther and Melanchton were anxious to disavow the Anabaptists. The first great creed of the Lutheran Church, The Augsburg Confession, point by point makes it clear that the Lutheran party would have nothing to do with Anabaptists. The epoch-making theology of Calvinism, Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion was first written to prove to the King of France that the Protestants were good people and had nothing to do with such extremists as the Anabaptists. When the Baptist movement was in its cradle...."etc! (Chester Tulga)
http://www.pbministries.org/Theology/Chester%20E.%20Tulga/baptists_not_protestants.htm