Not surprisingly this is one of the longest chapters. For the whole matter of the beginning of the Christian life as well as its nature focused on baptism. Moreover, baptism was the external act by which Anabaptists expressed their rejection of the sacramental church of Rome and the territorial churches of Protestantism. Their view of baptism also touched on questions of original sin, predestination and free will, and eschatology. At the most fundamental level baptism was viewed as a