Views During The Time of the Reformation (65): Views on the Sacraments: Baptism (The Protestant View)

We concluded our preceding article by quoting what our Heidelberg Catechism has to say about the sacrament of baptism in Lord's Days 26 and 27. In these Lord's Days emphasis is laid upon the fact that our sins are washed away only through the blood and Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Heidelberg Catechism emphatically denies that the outward washing of water itself is the washing away of our sins. This, we understand, is the teaching of Rome, and it is emphatically denied by the Reformed...