What are Friends' attitudes toward sacraments and Scripture?
Most Friends reject the sacraments in their outward forms--communion and baptism as variously practiced in Christian churches. They are seekers, rather, for the inward reality. For them, all great human experiences are of a sacramental nature.
The Bible was very precious to George Fox [the founder of Quakerism], but he saw clearly that to understand the Scriptures they must be read in the same Spirit that inspired those who wrote them. Another early Quaker leader, Robert Barclay, said that the Scriptures are only a declaration of the source and not the source itself.
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