Although Professor Georgopoulos refers specifically to Greek Protestants, the latter belong to world-wide Protestant denominations and so the article is of general interest. On what grounds do the Protestants reject infant baptism? They themselves claim that the sole criterion is Holy Scripture and that there is no scriptural basis for it. 1) Protestant contradictions. The position of some Protestants that infant baptism lacks scriptural basis brings them into direct conflict with the founders of Protestantism. At the time of the Reformation, rejection of infant baptism was a position held passionately by the Anabaptists, the most radical wing of the movement. They and their position were firmly opposed by the founders of Protestantism, who also had Sola Scriptura as their criterion. In two ...
