Quotes (Theme 4)

Question 1

What quotes support transubstantiation?

Answer 1

• ‘that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood…which conversion indeed the Catholic church most aptly calls transubstantiation’

Question 2

What quotes support transfinalization?

Answer 2

• ‘it is not permissible to…discuss the mystery of transubstantiation without mentioning what the council Trent had to say about the marvellous conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body and the whole substance of the wine into the blood of Christ, if they involve nothing more than transignification or transfinalization as they call it…the spread of these and similar opinions does great harm to belief in and devotion to the Eucharist’

Question 3

What quotes support the Eucharist?

Answer 3

• ‘For as often as you can eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lords death until he comes’

Question 4

What quotes support Karl Barths believers baptism?

Answer 4

• ‘It is not done in obedience, it is not administered according to proper order, and therefore is necessarily clouded baptism’
• ‘this book…which will be my last publication, will leave me in…theological and ecclesiastical isolation…I am thus to make a poor exit with it’

Question 5

What quotes support Believers baptism?

Answer 5

• Luke 18:15-16 ‘people were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them…Jesus called for them and said “let the little children come tome, and do not stop for them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom belongs to God”’
• John 3:5 ‘tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and spirit’
• Matthew 28:19 ‘make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Holy Spirit’
• Acts 2:38-39 ‘Repent and be Baptised everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may e forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you, for your children’
• ‘without Baptism and participation at the table of our Lord, it is impossible for anyone to attain either kingdom of God or to salvation and life eternal’
• ‘the sacrament of baptism is most assuredly the sacrament of regeneration’
• ‘on account of this rule of faith, even infants, who in themselves thus far have not been able to commit an sin, are therefore truly baptised unto the remission of sins, so that which they have contracted from the generation may be cleansed in them by regeneration’