Donatists Not Baptists

Though Donatists practiced adult baptism they shouldn't be confused with baptists, they actually had a distinct teaching on baptism and its purpose.

1. Donatists taught adult baptism for the remission of sins.

2. Donatists were not faith only.

3. Baptists teach baptism as a symbolic act and believe in faith only.

Donatists were almost exactly like the Church of Christ in these respects. Without the Donatist example Baptists do not have an early foot print historically.