I live near a "Detwiler's" which is a Mennonite store where a great work product is on display and promoted ... I am also a native german and am happy to have learned that my countrymen helped/supported this brave man in part of his lifetime ... Be blessed and thank you for a very interesting, cultural presentation.

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

That is very interesting @geramerix2753. I am also part German! Appreciate your support. Be blessed as well

You have a very gentle and soothing voice. It is very pleasant to listen to you. I enjoyed this history. I met a Mennonite once.

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

That's very kind of you! Appreciate your support @ivandinsmore6217

Fantastic overview! The same kind of videos for other historical anabaptist key people would be amazing

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

That is a good idea @Kwwmm!

This is good, but there are a few mistakes. Martin Luther did not have the same view as Bucer, Zwingli or Menno with regard to the Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ (Holy Mass or Communion). I would be happy to explain it to you if necessary. Please see his Small Catechism - Part 5 for the exact text. Secondly, at 10:24 you have shown a picture which I believe is related to the much later revolt in Bohemia and has nothing to do with the Anabaptists. Thirdly, you twice mispronounced the name Friesland. The first vowel is like an English "ee" sound and not "ie". Thank you.

As someone born of Mennonite heritage, I found this video most enlightening.

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

Glad you find value in the content @jakobbergen7574 appreciate your support!

@jakobbergen7574

5 ай бұрын

@@DainetheHistorianMy son-in-law is German and was raised in Münster. I asked him about the cages hanging from the church where the early Anabaptist leaders were tortured after they were overthrown. He knew the cages had been there for centuries but didn’t know the history.

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

Nicely done! That city is a treasure trove of history. I hope to visit Münster and see those cages one day.

Long live the memory of Menno Simons!

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

Agreed @LarzGustafsson he was a great man

Had occasion to visit the "Tauferhohle" cave ( at 13:08 ) several years ago. There was a waterfall adjacent to the cave and was used for rebaptizing, often at night, which then put such an one on the hunted list and persecution being your sentence for leaving the state church. Thanks Daine for your research and posting here, new sub. Blessings of Peace!

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

That is so awesome @dixiewishbone5582 ! One day I will visit it too. Thank you for your support. Merry Christmas!

@user-qk1cx6gs2z

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing such an important TRUTH at this most opportune and necessary time. How may one find such a community?

Very good article. I'm of Mennonite background, but I never heard this story before, and I'm 72 years old now. In fact I knew very little about Menno Simons, and I only discovered a couple of years ago that my ancestors originated out of Holland. So thank you for this wonderful and very informative article.

@DainetheHistorian

20 күн бұрын

@peterwiebewall5608 glad you found it interesting. I appreciate your support!

How much connection and interaction existed initially between the parallel Swiss and Dutch Anabaptist movements? My impression is that while the so-called Russian Mennonites trace their lineage directly back to The Dutch Mennonites, the Amish and most American Mennonites stem directly from the Swiss Reformation, and only acquired the Mennonite nickname at a later date; perhaps after they had adopted the Mennonite (Dordrecht) confession of faith as their own.

Thankyou for this vidio i am from swiss background and find this information beneficial please keep them coming😊

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

You bet @ronsmith7236 Appreciate the support!

Thank you. I love to fellowship with the Mennonites that I know. Very interesting to hear some history

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your support @suechapman1974 !

Awesome thanks. Could you please do one on John Holdeman

Thanks!

@DainetheHistorian

4 ай бұрын

Thank you @temporarybontrager-we9zu, appreciate your support!!!

Do you have a citation for The quote that "we are baptized because we are regenerated"? I downloaded a complete copy of Manila Simon's works and I cannot find it.

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

Yes, I used the J. C Wenger translation and the quote is on page 264-265.

Current demographic projection estimates in 100 yrs. America will have three major religions groups nearing 85% of the population, Evangelicals, Amish and Mormons. The Amish due to their large family sizes will be 1/3 of the religions in North America. That would mean that the Mennonites will be a major religious community in the Americas. Do to their size the avoidance of politics relatively the norm in their communities will not be the case in 100 yrs.

Menno Simons was RIGHT!

@petros-estin-petra-

5 ай бұрын

If he had diligently read the Bible, he wouldn't lean on his own understanding, but would rather stick to the pillar and foundation of Truth. _knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation._ 2 Peter 1:20

@petros-estin-petra-

5 ай бұрын

@@marym.338 Good Point! I'll remember that one. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. *For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.* John 5:51-55

@randolphothegreat549

4 ай бұрын

​@@marym.338neither is murder, but it didn't stop them.

The Word has power, only if read, believed and acted upon. Thank you Menno. And, Daine.

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

So true @tomwatkins4730 Appreciate your support!

Was he an ancestor of Simone Simons? The proper pronunciation is See-mons, as he was Dutch and born in the Netherlands. Or think of si, as in Spanish for yes, if you prefer. Hey, you fairly properly pronounce Witmarsum 😊 so why not the identical i in Simons? Don't worry if you don't know who Simone Simons is - though it is your loss; she is a very good singer and writer of songlyrics. She mostly sings metal, but can also sing classical music.

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

I have no idea to be honest

🙂👍

I really like this video. In terms of infant baptism, in the Bible, Cornelius had all of his family baptized and some of his family members would surely have been baptized. The norm might have been baptism for adults but infant baptism is evident in the bible.

@albertritchot5393

5 ай бұрын

...some of his family members, infants, would surely have been baptized.

Since the Amish take their name from Jacob Ammann and he was not born till 1644 how was Menno its founder, influencer would be more accurate, since he took Menno's precepts further.

@DainetheHistorian

5 ай бұрын

Hello @mannywilliams6409 thats an interesting question. Before the schism in the 1690s, they were all Mennonites. However, the most conservative/traditional subset of the Mennonites (a small minority) believed that the Mennonites as a whole were becoming too weak on several practices and decided to break off. Their intention was to return to the true values of the first Mennonites (for example, strict use of "the ban" as taught by Menno Simons). They originally took the name "Amish Mennonites" because they considered themselves Mennonites, and used the last name of Jakob Ammann to show their distinction from the Mennonites they had just separated from. As far as I know (and I could be wrong) Jakob Ammann did not really found anything or come up with new ideas. Rather, Ammann was a skilled leader, who led the most conservative faction of Mennonites during and after their schism with the mainstream Mennonites.

An infallible Bible is of not much value without an infallible interpreter. To read John Chapter six on the bread of life discourse and conclude that Christ was speaking symbolically, and not as a matter of fact seems absurd. Asking the simple question why would Jesus allow a great many of His followers to leave Him when they obviously believed He was speaking literally if He was actually speaking symbolically? He would have said "stop don't go, I wasn't speaking literally but symbolically." "The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats[g] my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum." - John 6:52-59 "Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” John 6:60 "Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you? What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?[ It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh[j] is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.” - John 6:61-65 "As a result of this, many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him." John 6:66 The fact is Jesus was speaking as a matter of fact and that is why they quit following Him! Sadly most Christians have such a weak faith they cannot bring themselves to believe in the True Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, especially in these Dark End Times.

Communion was simply to do in remembrance. It was Never meant to be some important part of salvation or Christian ritual.

@kevincassidy7385

5 ай бұрын

John 6, a manger is a food trough for barn animals and doesn't Bethlehem mean House of Bread? It is not simply a memorial. Luther believed in a Real Presence.

He would have been 'reading' the Scriptures every day in the daily Liturgy, mean the Epistles and Gospels for each day of the year. Not to forget the Psalms and numerous readings for Matins and other Offices. The Catholic Liturgical Year is saturated with Holy Scripture. It was not the absence of Scripture that inflamed the so-called 'great' reformers, but their lusts and passions. Every single one of them was unable to control their lusts. And these are men who 'suddenly' were iilluminated by the Holy Spirit? Rubbish.

@st6217

5 ай бұрын

Judging by what's still reported today as going on under the Catholic cassocks, I suspect that their confessions could be repeated any time throughout history. The Catholic church with its demands for chastity sets up otherwise possible decent men to sin. If only for that sake, he was smart to have left the Church.

@mattcavoto

5 ай бұрын

​@@st6217 My daughter's godmother worked for a public defender as a paralegal for several years. She had to work with people who had simply done horrific things. When talking about who committed the worst crimes and their professions, she noted that Catholic priests were statistically among the least likely to commit sexual abuse despite what seems to be claimed in the popular media. Public school teachers, ministers of religion in non-Catholic religious bodies, lawyers, doctors, etc, were all statistically more likely to commit abuse than Catholic priests. I have no reason to doubt her.

@DainetheHistorian

4 ай бұрын

Luther did marry a woman who had once been a nun, but she had left the nunnery. Martin Luther, a former Monk, had recommended to several women that they leave the nunnery. He then assisted them in their efforts to do so. Afterwards he helped them find husbands. Catharina Bora was one of these former nuns, who Luther later married.