Sukhie Baptisty (Russian: Сухие Баптисты "dry Baptists")[1] was a 19th-centurySpiritual Christian movement,[2] which was born fromMolokans who merged with theRussian Union of Evangelical Christians. They were called "dry Baptists", because they refused to baptize believers in physical water, but instead believing in a "baptism of the spirit", insisting that baptism was a purely spiritual experience instead of a physical one, they also denied baptismal regeneration. The dry Baptists often debated the Orthodox on the baptism of infants and on the efficacy of baptism.[3] One dry Baptist congregation was still registered inGeorgia, though more likely exist.[4]