An act by twelve men symbolized the real true break with Roman Catholicism. The word Anabaptist literally means to be baptized again, thus going against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. After these men were baptized, they formed a church that was modeled in the New Testament pattern. They also emphasized the requirement of personal commitment to Christ before one could be baptized. This reformation led by Zwingli was the result of faithful searching of the Scriptures by men who wanted to follow God correctly (Curtis).
How Anabaptism all was started:
On a crisp October night in 1517, the thirty-first to be exact, a black-garbed Augustinian monk made his way undetected to the castle church. The place was an insignificant medieval German town named Wittenberg. With swift, determined strokes he nailed one of the most inflammable documents of the age to the church door, which served as the village bulletin board. Within a fortnight all Europe was echoing the sound of the......
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