Did the Reformers Persecute the Anabaptists

​Several people have challenged us over organising Reformation Conferences and claimed that the Reformers persecuted the Anabaptists just because they “were not willing to baptise babies.” One correspondent wrote that rather than celebrate the Reformation “would it not be preferable to study the Scriptures…”
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Here is our response:
Of course, our highest priority is to “study the Scriptures daily to see if these things be true”. In fact that is the heritage of the Reformation. The Reformation gave us back the Bible freely available, translated into our own languages, and the Reformers championed “Scripture alone is our final authority”. The Reformation succeeded in bringing about greater freedoms than had ever been experienced before in human history.

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