01.05. Confirmation (53-54)

53. What does Rome teach about Confirmation?

54. Why do we reject Rome’s Confirmation as a Sacrament?

53. What does Rome teach about Confirmation? The Church of Rome teaches that Confirmation is ’a Sacrament instituted by our Lord by which the faithful who have already been made children of God by Baptism receive the Holy Ghost by prayer, unction or anointing with oil, and the laying on of hands of a Bishop’.

54. Why do we reject Rome’s Confirmation as a Sacrament?

We reject Rome’s Confirmation as a Sacrament as practised by the Church of Rome because no such Ordinance was instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ. Rome herself cannot tell when Christ instituted this so-called Sacrament. Her answer is: ’The time is not certain but Divines most probably hold it was instituted at Christ’s Last Supper, or between the Resurrection and Ascension.’