A person who rejects infant baptism and believes that only mature believers who have made a conscious choice should be baptized.
From 'antipedobaptism' + '-ist' (person who practices or believes in). Emerged in religious history when Reformed churches broke from the Catholic practice of infant baptism.
Early antipedobaptists were sometimes persecuted—some were even executed—because their rejection of infant baptism challenged not just theology but the political power of state churches that baptized entire populations as infants!
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