Loss of salvation???
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So? It is all about feelings.
Truth will confront your feelings.
His ways are not your "feelings."
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord. Isaiah 55:8
How does your feelings alter the truth Jesus spoke to His disciples?
On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command:
“Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have
heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be
baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:4-5
Even John the Baptist, who by prophecy saw into the future, knew water baptisms were to cease!And this was his message: “After me comes the one more powerful than I,
the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” Mark 1:7-8
Sure, there are lots of Christians today who remain ignorant of that truth, and are dogmatic about the error they follow.
And, so are religious Muslims dogmatic!
Emotionally charged dogmatism does not produce truth.
So, what are we to do with our "feelings" when the Truth contradicts us?
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me,
he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. Matthew 16:24
People who live by how they feel, hate being denied what they feel is right!
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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James was in effect saying.....
If you say you have genuine faith?
Your faith is not proven genuine until genuine works accompany your life.
And then?
Saying you are a true believer will be JUSTIFIED!
If you say you have genuine faith?
Your faith is not proven genuine until genuine works accompany your life.
And then?
Saying you are a true believer will be JUSTIFIED!
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10
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Grandstanding on the word "feeling" in my statement is not going to win the day for you. I'm sure you got a few snickers and snorts from your friends, which is fine with me. We all need some emotional laughs every now and then, even when they are based upon juvenile nonsense...
So, if Peter had meant spiritual baptism, then he would have stated such given that he appealed to a term they ALL knew was water baptism as that was a historic practice dating back more than 150 years prior.
Additionally, the orthodox Jewish upbringing of my past has no bearing upon what we can understand from the writings of Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles and the one to whom the mystery of the body of Christ was revealed. If you choose to make a deal of it, that's fine. However, I preach the gospel given to Paul because I choose to be under grace rather than to take my chances and hope that the Mosaic Law will justify any of us today. If you think you can be under grace and appeal to works for justification as was written by James to the twelve scattered tribes of Israel, then go for it. I doubt it will avail you anything in the coming judgement, if that is your position in all this, but if it is, do the best you can and we shall see how it pans out.
1 John 2:26-27
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
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James was in effect saying.....
If you say you have genuine faith?
Your faith is not proven genuine until genuine works accompany your life.
And then?
Saying you are a true believer will be JUSTIFIED!
If you say you have genuine faith?
Your faith is not proven genuine until genuine works accompany your life.
And then?
Saying you are a true believer will be JUSTIFIED!
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10
MM
Appeals to things stated by the twelve in relation to salvation from those who were the apostles to Israel and who were still under the Law, you can all now see more clearly the manic confusion it causes when trying to harmonize the Kingdom Gospel with the Gospel of Grace. It leads to utter silliness and sad indifference to rightly dividing the word of truth.
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How do you explain
Having your name in the book of life, then having it removed.
Once saved and then not saved.
Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Having your name in the book of life, then having it removed.
Once saved and then not saved.
Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Israel's Kingdom Gospel messages do state the requirement for baptism unto salvation, where ours under the Gospel of Grace do not.
Peter preached what Jesus preached to Israel:
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Paul, on the other hand, said nothing to the Gentiles in any of his epistles for the requirement to be water baptized:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
The plainness and clarity of what is said and what is not said, they speak loud volumes to the depravity in honest dealings with scripture; so much so that some exercise vain attempts at harmonizing in order to back up replacement theology.
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Peter preached what Jesus preached to Israel:
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Paul, on the other hand, said nothing to the Gentiles in any of his epistles for the requirement to be water baptized:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
The plainness and clarity of what is said and what is not said, they speak loud volumes to the depravity in honest dealings with scripture; so much so that some exercise vain attempts at harmonizing in order to back up replacement theology.
MM
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