It is appearing more and more that your problem is that you just don't like the word "sacrament".
I mentioned the word "Trinity" earlier. A word not found at all in the Bible. You don't have a problem with it.
Trinity is not a
translation of any word in the Bible.
The issue here is
translation. . .of the Greek
mysterion into Latin,
where Jerome made an error in his translation of the Greek
mysterion into the Latin
sacramentum,
when the correct translation of the Greek
mysterion into the Latin is
mysterium.
The relevance of the argument is
first of all, correctness of language and concept, and
secondly, correctness of doctrine.
There is no sacramentalism in the NT.
There are outward signs/symbols of actual spiritual facts; e.g.,
baptism being a sign/symbol of what happened as a result of the believer's faith; i.e.,
through
rebirth and faith we are
united with Christ, just as through our natural
birth we are
united with Adam.
And as we fell into sin and became subject to death
in Father Adam,
so now
through faith we have died to sin and been raised again to live a new life
in Christ--which baptism
symbolizes.
Baptism does not
effect one's spiritual death to sin and resurrection to new life--saving faith does that,
rather baptism illustrates,
symbolizes these spiritual realities
effected by saving faith.
True faith is not denied spiritual death and resurrection
in Christ because one is not baptized.
As circumcision was the
sign which identified one as in God's people, so baptism is the
sign which identifies one as in the body of Christ (
Col 2:11-12).