Views During The Time of the Reformation (64): Views on the Sacraments: Baptism (The Protestant View)

In distinction from the Protestant view, the Roman Catholic Church lays all emphasis upon the sacraments. Whereas the Protestant view stresses the priority of the Word of God, Roman Catholicism assumes that the sacraments contain all that is necessary for the salvation of the sinner, need no interpretation, and therefore render the Word completely superfluous as a means of grace. According to Rome, the sacrament of baptism is the sacrament of regeneration. They declare accursed who claims that...