<P> Approximately 4 million Anabaptists live in the world today with adherents scattered across all inhabited continents . In addition to a number of minor Anabaptist groups, the most numerous include the Mennonites at 2.1 million, the German Baptists at 1.5 million, the Amish at 0.3 million and the Hutterites at 0.05 million . </P> <P> In the 21st century there are large cultural differences between assimilated Anabaptists, who do not differ much from evangelical or mainline Protestants and traditional groups like the Amish, the Old Colony Mennonites, the Old Order Mennonites, the Hutterites and the Old German Baptist Brethren . </P> <P> The early Anabaptists formulated their beliefs in the Schleitheim Confession, in 1527 . Anabaptists believe that baptism is valid only when the candidate confesses his or her faith in Christ and wants to be baptized . This believer's baptism is opposed to baptism of infants, who are not able to make a conscious decision to be baptized . Anabaptists are those who are in a traditional line with the early Anabaptists of the 16th century . Other Christian groups with different roots also practice believer's baptism, such as Baptists, but these groups are not seen as Anabaptist . The Amish, Hutterites, and Mennonites are direct descendants of the early Anabaptist movement . Schwarzenau Brethren, Bruderhof, and the Apostolic Christian Church are considered later developments among the Anabaptists . </P> <P> The name Anabaptist means "one who baptizes again". Their persecutors named them this, referring to the practice of baptizing persons when they converted or declared their faith in Christ, even if they had been baptized as infants . Anabaptists required that baptismal candidates be able to make a confession of faith that is freely chosen and so rejected baptism of infants . The early members of this movement did not accept the name Anabaptist, claiming that infant baptism was not part of scripture and was therefore null and void . They said that baptizing self - confessed believers was their first true baptism: </P>

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