How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
That may sound like a strange question! Many would simply answer that question by saying, “They don’t!”
But the apostle Peter in 1 Peter 3, tells us about how God saved Noah through the Ark, and how “baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you…” And Ananias told Paul in Acts 22:16 “Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.”
So if we are going to be faithful to the scriptures, then we need to say that the sacraments do become effectual means of salvation.
The question is not whether God uses the sacraments to save us – but how does God use the sacraments to save us?
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