Assertion: baptism | /r/HasProperty | efficacious
Facets:
value: in the reformed view
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: They hold that baptism is efficacious, rather than merely symbolic.
text: In the Reformed view, baptism is efficacious; divine grace is ‘really … conferred, by the Holy Ghost’ through baptism.
text: And Anglican theologian and bishop Hugh Montefiore says that "Baptism is efficacious if it is asked for in faith, in the sense that it enacts sacramentally what has been begun spiritually, and the very fact that it is an outward and visible sign both strengthens the faith of the baptized and is a public witness to that faith.