to be fair, they themselves distinguished themselves from the protesters (folks who followed Luther, Calvin, etc at the time of the protest, b sed on the issue of infant baptism......
Protestant theology, like Catholic theology, is also not based on strict biblical literalism.....there are probably 6000 people who believe that the earth is literally 6000 years old.......why is it gnostics think they know more about Protestant theology than Protestants do?......
PigDog has already been hoisted on the petard of his own ignorance, and throwing him a life line won't cut it
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Baptist, member of a group of Protestant Christians who share the basic beliefs of most Protestants but who insist that only believers should be baptized and that it should be done by immersion rather than by the sprinkling or pouring of water. (This view, however, is shared by others who are not Baptists.)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Baptist