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theefaith

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ABSOLUTELY!!!! 100% Correct!!!

Of Course that WASN'T, ISN'T, and Never will be the "Roman Catholic System" (or the Baptist system, or the Assembly of God System, etc).

very physical and visible

Prophecy of the new covenant church fulfilled in the apostolic union with Christ!

Matt 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, (Israel) and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. (The new covenant church) Jn 15:1-5

Dan 2: 44 And in the days of these kings (Roman Caesars) shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Isaiah 2:2
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

Micah 4:1
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

Lk 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Lk 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

Matthew 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

So what is it?
 

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Any church that disobeys Peter per rejecting Acts 2:38 is not God's church, but man's church.

Every sin they have ever committed remains with them.
One Baptism One Church?
Baptism in the Name of the Father ,the Son and the Holy Spirit?
 

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spiritual anarchy that’s you’re answer

Only someone with NO CONCEPT AT ALL of the Role of the Holy Spirit in Born Again Christians could make a silly comment like that. The Holy Spirit (to whom I committed my way 60 years ago) had guded me SPiritually, and kept me and my family is good shape all the way till in the not sodistant future, I will come to the end of life in total Confidence that he's made a place for me with him, and the other saints (All born again Christians are "Saints").
 
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One Baptism One Church?
Baptism in the Name of the Father ,the Son and the Holy Spirit?

acts 2:38 is a catch all for those who deny the divinity of Christ and the trinity!

matt 28:19 is the proper form of baptism
Acts 2:38 the command to be baptized is in the name of Jesus not the baptism!

eph 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism

Baptism!

God breathed life into Adam, gen 2:7 and we received this life from our fathers!

Christ breathed on the apostles our spiritual fathers, we receive the new covenant life of God’s grace from them thru faith & baptism! Jn 20:21-23 Mk 16:16 acts 8:36-38

Born again! Born from above!

'The Father has set his seal' on Christ (John 6:27) and also seals us in him (cf. 2 Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 1:23, 4:30). Because this seal indicates the indelible effect of the anointing with the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of Baptism,

Baptism indeed is the seal of eternal life." 87 The faithful Christian who I has "kept the seal" until the end, remaining faithful to the demands of his Baptism, will be able to depart this life "marked with the sign of faith," 88 with his baptismal faith, in expectation of the blessed vision of God - the consummation of faith - and in the hope of resurrection.

St. Paul tells the faithful at Ephesus that they have been “sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.” This is in terms of an indelible character imprinted on the soul in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation. It is not as if this invisible mark is simply decorative. Rather, through it, we are enabled to participate in Christ’s mission and in his offices of priest, prophet, and king. Eph 1:13

Sealed by God eph 1:13 sealed by God (ez 36:25-27) in the ark of salvation by baptism just as Noah was sealed by God in the ark of the flood gen 7:16

1 Pet 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us!
(Ark of Noah a type of the church, member of Christ and his church and salvation by baptism!)
(Outside the ark of Noah none were saved, outside the church (the ark of salvation) none are saved!)

Sealed in the ark, sealed in the church the ark of salvation by God thru baptism!
 
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One Baptism One Church?
Baptism in the Name of the Father ,the Son and the Holy Spirit?
The name of the son is "Jesus" per Peter's interpretation when he commanded the 3000 at Pentecost to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.....



This will explain it thoroughly.
 

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Jude 1:4
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

is that you?

denying our Lord?
denying His divinity?
 

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Jude 1:4
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

is that you?

denying our Lord?
denying His divinity?
Yes, I explained Acts 2:38 in comparison to Matt 28:19.

Now you are accountable.
 

theefaith

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Yes, I explained Acts 2:38 in comparison to Matt 28:19.

Now you are accountable.

from the 1st century

Didache (teaching of the apostles)
Verified by acts 2:42

Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism. And concerning baptism, baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living water. But if you have no living water, baptize into other water; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before.
 

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from the 1st century

Didache (teaching of the apostles)
Verified by acts 2:42

Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism. And concerning baptism, baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living water. But if you have no living water, baptize into other water; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before.
Commentary. Garbage.
 

theefaith

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Lk 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.

Jn 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Jn 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

John brought them to Jesus

Jesus is the Lord their God!

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Lk 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

Jesus visited and redeemed the people, Jesus is the horn of salvation!

Jesus is eternal God!

No wiggling out of this one!
 

theefaith

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Commentary. Garbage.

not garbage
Not the tradition of men
But holy apostolic tradition

Testimony of the early church in the successors of the apostles! Verified by acts 2:42

Acts 1:8 witnesses of Christ with the power of the Holy Spirit!

We must hear them! Matt 18:17
 

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the Bible says not

Didache is the teaching of the apostles and scripture demands you believe it acts 2:42

also
apostles creed
Nicece creed
Athanasius creed
No, it is commentary. Not Apostles writings.

Some folks will believe anything.
 

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not garbage
Not the tradition of men
But holy apostolic tradition

Testimony of the early church in the successors of the apostles! Verified by acts 2:42

Acts 1:8 witnesses of Christ with the power of the Holy Spirit!

We must hear them! Matt 18:17
These guys?...

29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.


Behold, your post Apostolic successors.
 

theefaith

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No, it is commentary. Not Apostles writings.

Some folks will believe anything.

we must believe the testimony and doctrine of the apostles
Acts 1:8
Acts 2:42
The didache and the creeds are the apostles doctrine or teaching or tradition

2 thes 2:15
 

theefaith

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These guys?...

29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.


Behold, your post Apostolic successors.

that does not refer to the apostles, saints, doctors, and fathers
But to heretics!

helvidius, arias, (who denies his Lord, rejected the divinity of christ, sound familiar) the Albigensian’s, hussites, wicliffeites, Protestants, modernist’s etc.
 

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we must believe the testimony and doctrine of the apostles
Acts 1:8
Acts 2:42
The didache and the creeds are the apostles doctrine or teaching or tradition

2 thes 2:15
The didache and the creeds are garbage.
 

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that does not refer to the apostles, saints, doctors, and fathers
But to heretics!

helvidius, arias, (who denies his Lord, rejected the divinity of christ, sound familiar) the Albigensian’s, hussites, wicliffeites, Protestants, modernist’s etc.
He said those among them would become wolves.

So, sola scriptura.
 

theefaith

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The didache and the creeds are garbage.

they are Christian faith
To reject them is to reject the Christian faith and Christ who revealed it!

Are you rejecting them?

are you saying your not a Christian?