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If water baptism is not an element of salvation, why did Jesus command it?
Jesus commands that His faithful be baptized as this is integral with the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) and the Great Commission is the teaching and preaching to the World concerning the power of the Gospel to save through faith in Messiah Jesus; therefore, water baptism is an outward demonstration to a lost and perishing World of the regeneration possible by faith in Jesus as Messiah; water baptism is a picture, an outward demonstration, of the death, burial and resurrection of Messiah…a concise yet powerful public demonstration of the Gospel message; for this reason, entering baptismal waters should be one of the first acts of obedience for anyone who has received the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with Elohim subsequent professing faith in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14).
Is it possible to be saved from the “second death” in Hell through faith in Jesus, alone, yet NOT enter baptismal waters as commanded by Messiah?
Yes… but with a caveat; that is, water does not purify the soul from sin and Jesus’ blood atonement is more than sufficient to save by faith but why would anyone who truly loves Jesus and honors Him by faith as Messiah not obey His command to be baptized as He was?
If one is truly born again by the Spirit and the Holy Spirit indwells them and arbitrates their conscience in all moral discernment, daily; this, as they venture through life in daily sanctification, how can the redeemed conscience of the truly faithful be clear and honorable if they do NOT obey this most simple command?
I personally feel that if one professes they’re saved by faith in Jesus yet they “refuse” to enter baptismal waters as clearly commanded (Matthew 28:16-20), perhaps their faith is NOT legitimate?
Obedience to the Father, Son and Spirit is a hallmark sign of authentic faith and personal relationship. We don’t enter baptismal waters to be saved or to supplement the sufficiency of Jesus to save us by faith but we enter baptismal waters BECAUSE we ARE saved and our heart’s desire is to honor the will of our beloved Messiah and NOT grieve the Holy Spirit within us.
How can one walk in daily intimacy and joy and peace with our Lord and Savior yet not obey His will for our life? Is that even possible?
Why do Atheists possess greater FAITH and BELIEF than the Christian?
Atheist, you do “believe” that there is no Creator; therefore, you do “believe” absent natural and Scriptural evidence to the contrary. You can’t have it both ways; therefore, you “believe” and express incredible “faith” that all of Nature emanated from a naturalistic origin which is a much “greater” faith than that of the Christian who “believes” that Elohim (Genesis 1:1) is Creator yet you have NO evidence of a Naturalist Origin yet Elohim has expressed and articulated clearly the who, what, where, when, why, concerning the creation narrative and He has provided eschatology, fulfilled prophecy, that under girds His ownership of said creation narrative. Atheism is a “religion” of unbelief in a god or a creator and this “unbelief” is a “belief” in a naturalist origin of all things which is an expression of unfathomable “faith.” Atheism is kin to Secular Humanism-Darwinism where you worship and serve that which has been created rather than the Creator (Romans 1:18-32).
Does the Noahic Flood negate the reality of “free will?” The atheist says yes. What is the Truth?
The Noahic Flood manifest due the wickedness of the very seed that flows through your DNA as an atheist; both the Adamic and Noahic generations thwarted their ordination as progenitors of the Messiah (Genesis 3:15) by freely choosing compromise with the demonic, the sacrificing of their posterity to pagan gods, sexual defilement (Genesis 6:5; Romans 1:18-32); therefore, Elohim annihilated all but eight by water and began anew with Noah and his family, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (AKA Israel), Judah, Yeshua.
The true tragedy is…you do NOT understand that our entire creation is predicated upon WAR and we are in the midst of a most horrific WAR of cosmic proportions and you have been uniquely selected as a valid participant in that WAR and your sole purpose in this temporary life is to “choose” whom you will serve and act upon that free will choice. Elohim, our Creator, desires that you “choose” life in His Messiah who entered Time for the specific purpose of “destroying the work of Satan” (John 6:29; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 John 3:8b).
Concerning calls for “unification” between Republicans and Democrat-Progressives…
Subsequent the assassination attempt on President Trump, there is a call for unification and a “coming together” between Conservatives and Liberals; Republicans and Democrat-Progressives; Christianity and Atheism; Faith and Secularism.
For the record, Light and darkness cannot coexist; Good and evil will not mingle; Life and death are antithetical and it is not possible that a Conservative unify with a Liberal or a true Republican come to terms with a Democrat-Progressive or a Christian ally with an Atheist/Secular Humanist nor more than Faith can compromise with Secularism; therefore, America’s fracture and divide has but one solution, a second civil war where Republicans, once again, nullify the demonic agenda of the Democrat-Progressive.
A Political Party, an ideology, that is based in, founded upon, the murder of babies in the womb; the celebration of unconscionable sexual perversion via LGBTQAI++ spiritual illness; open borders destroying the sovereignty of America and the safety of Her citizenry, a Political Party that worships the creation and express hatred for the Creator, this Political Party is NOT sustainable in a Constitutional Republic; therefore, it cannot be allowed to exist and rule in tyranny nor can those who love America coexist with those who seek to destroy Her. Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Atheists-Secular Humanists are horrible people and they have no place in a Land founded for the free and the brave and the worshipers of Jesus Christ to His glory, forever.
Why did Elohim create a rebellious cherub angel that would rebel against Him and why does Elohim expect humanity to handle Satan when Elohim has apparently failed to do so Himself?
Discussion,
Elohim is handling Satan through a divine eschatological plan that is essential for Elohim’s continuing intimacy with the two-thirds of the angelic creation that remained faithful to Him during the Great Kingdom War…a War that was extricated from the Kingdom and placed upon a created temporary entity known as the Earth which is constrained by Time and physics (Revelation 12:7-10; Ezekiel 28:11-19; Isaiah 14:12-17).
Elohim’s eschatological plan concerning Satan necessitates a tactful strategy that ensures continued intimate relationship with the faithful angelic creation that Elohim adores beyond human understanding. This battle strategy is also relevant as a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom, a divine deterrent, where free will remains extant by necessity.
Elohim is dealing with Satan this very moment and He ultimately defeated the rebellious cherub at Golgotha via Messiah via self-less love; a spiritual war first declared in Genesis 3:15 and a battle strategy first pictured in Genesis 3:21, the Gospel of Grace.
Jesus is victorious over Satan (Revelation 5:5) as this is the primary reason Jesus entered the Realm of Time (1 John 3:8b); that is, “to destroy the works of the Devil” via a battle strategy known as the Gospel which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
Had Satan not rebelled, there would be absolutely no reason for Elohim’s creation narrative (Genesis 1) and His striving with a rebellious and defiled and unfaithful human kind (Genesis 6:5).
Our entire existence within the Realm of Time finds its meaning and its reasoning as participants, warriors, in the Great Kingdom War that rages around us and through us daily and our eternal destiny is wholly contingent upon whom we freely “choose” to ally with; Jesus by faith in victory or Satan by default in unbelief.
The human conscience and free will – controlled by random atomic particulates, matter or a divine gifting?
Free will – your choices is/are governed by your conscience that is given you by your Creator for His eschatological purposes in Time and in Eternity. You possess a moral foundation, a spiritual law, written upon your heart beginning with Day-6 as you are created in the spiritual image of your Creator (Genesis 1:26-28) thereby possessing certain divine communicable attributes of your Creator, one such attribute being the natural-spiritual law present within you, a spiritual law that is arbitrated by your conscience and not random atomic particles.
Your conscience, subsequent to being ignored repetitiously by human free will motivated by aberrant lust, narcissism, hedonism, selfishness…grows progressively “seared” and “numb” to divine Truth and over time it is this perverse conscience that is given-over to aberrant lust and behaviors that dishonor the individual and the society in which they serve ultimately culminating in the death of the soul, mind, body, in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15).
The Holy Spirit articulates this progressive weakening of the seared conscience and the natural resultant of prolonged disobedience to Elohim’s will (John 6:29, Atheism-Secular Humanism) in Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome, Chapter One.
Atheistic absurdity concerning a comparison/contrast INRE to the Noahic Flood, abortion, children and Elohim’s culpability…Truth?
Both the Adamic and Noahic generations thwarted their ordination as progenitors of the Messiah via their compromise with the demonic – paganism much like this present generation of atheists and secular humanists today; therefore, the genomic defilement of the Adamic-Noahic generations was destroyed by water and the very best of that seed through Noah was used to initiate a more palatable, conformative, reasonable, people group through Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, through which Messiah entered the Realm of Time; Messiah’s primary objective was to “destroy the works of Satan” at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15) via a battle strategy known as the Gospel which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10; Genesis 3:21).
The Noahic Flood has no applicability to abortion and the children who perished in that Flood are secure in our Creator, forever, as they are divinely deemed innocent due their lack of maturity and understanding for where there is no law; that is, the absence of sufficient cognitive maturity to understand Elohim’s moral mandates, there is no sin (Romans 4:15; 5:13); furthermore, we see our Creator’s divine compassion toward mental/cognitive/moral immaturity in His dealings with the rebellious of Jacob’s children in their wilderness wanderings subsequent the Exodus from Egypt.
It is written,
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27 “How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. Numbers 14 (ESV)
Do not allow the demonic among us as represented by atheists, secular humanists, to suggest the Noahic Flood and the death of children in that Flood are somehow applicable to the murder of abortion in today’s wicked and defiled generation.
Really? How spiritually sick and defiled is America that celebrates the month of June as a month of LGBTQ mental and spiritual illness? How vile must a Nation of people be that honors the mental sickness of transsexualism; homosexuality; lesbianism, bisexual perversion; queerdom; gayness. This is evil celebrated “in your face” of a patriotic, moral, decent, people who seek to honor sustainable norms, mores, values, the Biblical family, Jesus as Lord…these things that under gird America’s Constitutional Republic and a healthy family, a healthy life of honor. LGBTQ is demonic at its root and Marxist in reality. The prevalence and “pride” of LGBTQ is indicative of a Nation that is dying in sin and defilement promulgated by a people of dishonor who have forgotten how to blush – shameful and embarrassing (Jeremiah 6:15)!
“Choose this day whom you will serve.” Joshua 24:15 A “choice” that defines the purpose for the Creation Narrative and Elohim’s eschatological will and His purposes for Time and Eternity…
Joshua’s utterance via the Holy Spirit is central to all things concerning the Genesis Narrative and the purposes surrounding Day-6 (the human genome); futhermore, Joshua’s utterance is central to the presence of Satan in Eden; the Adamic compromise with evil; the declaration of war between Elohim and Satan in Genesis 3:15; the introduction of a divine battle strategy known as “The Gospel” in Genesis 3:21 which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10); the demonic compromise of the Adamic and Noahic generations and their judgment unto death via water save eight (Genesis 6:5); the necessity for Noah; Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, Sinai-Moses, Messiah; the defeat of Satan’s works by Messiah at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b); the introduction of the New Covenant established in Messiah’s blood (Luke 22:20) and represented by Christianity; the subsequent rise of Islam and Islam’s false deity “Allah” who is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god (2 Corinthians 11:14); worldwide hatred and loathing for Jacob’s children; the re-establishment of the Israeli State in 1948 subsequent Satan’s attempt to completely annihilate Jacob’s children via the Holocaust; the advent of the “nuclear age;” the “progressive” fall of the United States via demonic compromise politically-ethically-morally; the rise of an unholy alliance between Russia-China-Iran/Islam as foretold by the prophets; the relocation of Israel’s Capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and Jerusalem as the obsessive focus of Satan’s allies; the rise in Worldwide antisemitism; the current unrest in the Middle East emboldened by nuclear threats; the coming Tribulation period which is 3.5-years of unfathomable nuclear conflict involving the entire World but primarily focused upon and targeting Jerusalem, Israel; Messiah’s 2nd-Advent to Mount Olivet with victory over Israel’s enemies; the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom; the final battle between good and evil initiated at the culmination of Messiah’s Millennial Reign in conjunction with Satan’s freedom from bondage; the Judgment of Satan; the Judgment of unfaithful humanity; the destruction of the Heavens and the Earth by fire; the presence of a New Earth and a New Heaven and the Holy City, the New Jerusalem; resurrected faithful humanity serving a resurrected Jesus as Messiah and King, forever.
Whom will you serve? The only relevant question in life…
Our existence upon this temporary Earth is due a spiritual war initiated by Satan in the Kingdom of Elohim and this Earth, this temporary Universe, were created in direct response to that Kingdom War; this temporary Earth is nothing more than a temporary “battle ground” as Elohim removed the destruction of war from His Kingdom and placed same here to be dealt with partially constrained by Time and physics; this, apart from the Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Revelation 21:27).
Humanity plays an integral eschatological role in this spiritual war that rages around us and through us daily and the most relevant decision a man or woman will make in their life is “whom will you serve?” – will you freely choose to serve Elohim by faith in the Son, Jesus our Messiah (John 3:16) or will you choose to serve Satan (John 8:44) in rejection of Elohim’s plea to “choose life” in His Son (Deuteronomy 30:19)?
If you choose Jesus by faith (John 3), you will be victorious as Jesus is King and the battle is His in victory, eternally (Revelation 5:5) – or – you can choose servitude to Satan in rebellion to Elohim’s will for your life (John 6:29; 1 Timothy 2:4) and reap the sorrows of defeat and shame in Hell (Revelation 20:10-15). The choice is yours to make; therefore, “Choose this day whom you will serve.”
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