The doctrine of the sphericity of the earth was still held by the more learned, but the heads of the church held it to be unscriptural.
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Time-honoured custom had hitherto reckoned primogeniture in the male line as the best 'title to the Russian crown; in the ustav of 1722 Peter denounced primogeniture in general as a stupid, dangerous, and even unscriptural practice of dubious origin.
3
Infant baptism they rejected because it was unscriptural, and because all baptism with water was an appanage of the Jewish demiurge Jehovah, and as such expressly rejected by Christ.
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But their most radical doctrine was the rejection of infant baptism as unscriptural.