15-False Argument 10

Argument 10
Infant Baptisers Argue from the
Invented Concept of the Sacraments
This is another way in which infant baptisers develop their system.
And yet it is not just ‘another way’. It is, as I have said, the root of the
trouble. They use the concept of the ‘sacraments’, a word that has
come up from time to time throughout this book. What is more, as I
have shown, sacramentalism is on the increase, and in its wake, a
growing number are adopting a full-blooded sacramental infant
baptism, where words mean what they say. This has consequences.1 A
sacrament? A sacrament is said to be a religious rite which is supposed
to be a means of grace.2 It is not a scriptural term – so where did it
come from? Bannerman conceded that ‘the term... is of Church
origin’,3 by which he meant, dreamed up by the Fathers,4 who got it
from the pagans.5 Pagan! Let that sink in.