Did John the Baptist founded the first baptist church?

Answer 1

No. Both Baptists and Anabaptists have their names deriving from the idea that they would "re-baptize" people. By 1500's it had become normative to practice the Christian rite of baptism on infants as an expression of faith of the parents.

Both Baptists and Anabaptists believed that baptism is to express the faith of the individual. Therefore, people who joined Baptist or Anabaptist groups were required to undergo "believer's baptism" even if they had been baptized as infants.

John the Baptist was described as such because his most famous role in The Bible was as the one who baptized Jesus. Even though John did practice believer's baptism, he was not a "Baptist" in the Christian sense. John's baptism was a Jewish baptism of repentance. (The English term "baptize" is simply the transliteration of a Greek word meaning to dip or immerse.) It was pre-Christian.

Answer 2

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The first known Baptist congregation was formed in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1608. As they saw it, it was important to reconstitute and not just reform the Church. However, many Baptists contend that Baptist denominations received their creed in the first century, the apostles themselves, or at least that they are older than the Protestant Reformation.

Even allowing that the legacy of Baptist denominations goes back to the apostles, they remain separated linearly from John the Baptist. The Mandaeans, a remnant non-Christian sect, claim that John the Baptist actually founded their religion, although this is far from confirmed.

Answer 3

Yes it is very much there, both the books of Matthew and Mark have it. John the Baptist was the cousin of Jesus, and both Mary and his mother Elizabeth were cousins.

Answer 4

No, Jesus founded the first baptist church