… the Paulicians as their fore-runners. John T. Christian, though admitting that the Paulicians were Adoptionists, argues that Mosheim shows that they rejected infant baptism. Adoptionists are those who believe that Christ was originally only a man who, after being tested by God successfully was accepted into the Godhead. Having thus ‘proved’ that the Paulicians did not baptise children without consulting original documents, Christian further speculates that they obviously immersed three …