chuckd
Puritan Board Junior
WCF 29.6 That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood (commonly called transubstantiation) by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant, not to Scripture alone, but even to common sense, and reason; overthroweth the nature of the sacrament, and hath been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions; yea, of gross idolatries.
I believe this is saying that: since a sacrament is a sign of something, making the sign = the thing signified, it destroys the meaning of the word.
Do Catholics simply have a different understanding of what a sacrament is? I read this elsewhere where Humbert of Silva Candida taught:
A signum which was not also essentialiter res in no way would be a sacrament.
I believe this is saying that: since a sacrament is a sign of something, making the sign = the thing signified, it destroys the meaning of the word.
Do Catholics simply have a different understanding of what a sacrament is? I read this elsewhere where Humbert of Silva Candida taught:
A signum which was not also essentialiter res in no way would be a sacrament.