No it said it was a sacrament with outward and visible dsigns and inward graces, including "birth into God's family the Church, forgiveness of sins, and new life in the Holy Spirit. "
These are not coincidental. This is what happens unseen during the water baptism that we do see. It's not talking about a symbol, but a sacrament.
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For the record, the Anglican statement said that water baptism was an outward sign of an inward process.
No it said it was a sacrament with outward and visible signs and inward graces, including "birth into God's family the Church, forgiveness of sins, and new life in the Holy Spirit. "
These are not coincidental. This is what happens unseen during the water baptism that we do see. It's not talking about a symbol, but a sacrament.
I do not see that our interpretations of the statement differ, ... if, at all, ... only in that you have more fully detailed the inward process of baptism.
One might say that we are baptized with water externally, ... while we are baptized with the Holy Spirit internally.