As a Christian, my daily walk is not focused upon Sinai or Moses or Torah or letters or days or diets…
Discussion,
Jesus was under Law (Galatians 4:4-5) and came specifically to those under the Law (Matthew 15:24) to proselytize them in the New Covenant’s Gospel of Grace and prepare them for ministry concerning Israel’s ordination as ministers of the Great Commission; this, in fulfillment of Elohim’s promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:3b); unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected both their Messiah and the Gospel and ultimately, the Great Commission (Matthew 23:37). Sinai-Moses-the Law Covenant were never the destination but a path to that Destination which is Jesus our Messiah and the Gospel of Grace (Galatians 3:24).
Jesus fulfilled the righteous mandates of the Law for us (Matthew 5:17) as He is the only One qualified via the virgin birth to fulfill the Law but Jesus ordained Paul to preach “a righteousness apart from the works of the Law” (Romans 3:20-21; Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 7:6; Romans 8:1-9; Galatians 2:21); therefore, the Christian is not enslaved to Sinai or Moses or Torah or Days or Diets, but the Christian lives and walks and obeys via the indwelling Holy Spirit who enlivens the comprehensive eternal Spiritual Law written upon the heart (Romans 2:14-15; Hebrews 10:16; Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36) and mates that Spiritual Law with the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) to produce “fruits of righteousness” (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed in Jesus and this divine fruit fulfills all law, both codified and spiritual. Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20); therefore, all that Jesus taught is fulfilled through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit given to all who believe that Jesus is Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16); therefore, Christians don’t chase after fragmented, incomplete Sinai or Moses’ irrelevant civil and ceremonial laws but Christians serve through the indwelling Holy Spirit (Romans 7:6).
In closing,
As a Gentile, I was never given Sinai or the Laws of Moses…I was NEVER under a Law Covenant-Torah but the Law I observe is infinitely superior to fragmented Sinai because the Law I observe is from the Spirit who is omnipotent and is able to intercede, discern, tutor, me in every moral decision made daily; this, during daily sanctification. I don’t live my life in letters or ordinances or days or diets…I live and thrive by the Spirit who is my Law and my Peace (Romans 5:1; John 14:16; John 16:13).
Did Jesus’ death only atone for past sins or all sin, past-present-future? What law is relevant in the New Covenant defining sin and Elohim’s expectations concerning obedience?
Discussion,
Jesus died for all sin, past-present-future (Hebrews 8-10; 1 John 2:2); otherwise, Jesus would be subject to repeated crucifixion as the bygone Law Covenant required repetitive blood sacrifices for the sins of Israel’s children; this, because the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:1-4).
Concerning Sinai and Moses, their purposes and the temporary, inferior, nature of codification…
The Ten-Commandments are but a mere fraction of Elohim’s comprehensive spiritual law; therefore, Sinai and Moses are wholly inadequate sources concerning righteousness with the Father. Sinai and Moses were given specifically to Israel’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes in order to thwart Israel’s compromise with paganism; specifically, compromise with Baal and Molech; this, as Elohim did not desire a repeat of the demonically based failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations, two-generations who were governed solely by the spiritual law written upon the human heart (Romans 2:14-15) void the Holy Spirit as a relevant arbiter, a spiritual law that was negated, made impotent, by a seared conscience of a people group sold into demonic slavery and defilement via spiritual compromise (Romans 1:18-32).
Sinai was not given the Gentile lest same sought inclusion into Israel’s theocracy. Sinai was fragmented, codified, temporal, instructions to a people group through whom Elohim would endeavor to introduce His Messiah and His Gospel into the World to fulfill His promise to Abraham relevant to “a blessing to every family of the Earth” (Genesis 12:3b). Sinai’s intent was sanctification (a setting apart) of Israel’s children for Elohim’s eschatological purposes (“you shall be holy as I AM holy”) and Sinai was temporary, inadequate, as a purveyor of true righteousness as neither Sinai or Moses as codified laws could adequately address the totality of moral deterrence concerning human and angelic behavior required for true holiness and righteousness; hence, the eternal superiority of the Spiritual Law arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit via a New Covenant.
Therefore,
The New Covenant is NOT regulated by Sinai or Moses or Days or Diets or Traditions or codified laws, but the man or woman who trusts in Messiah Jesus as LORD is redeemed by an imputed-gifted righteousness not their own (2 Corinthians 5:21; Genesis 3:21); that is, a divinely gifted righteousness earned for us by Messiah Jesus and fulfilled at Golgotha via blood atonement (Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19); therefore, the Christian is not enslaved to letters, laws, diets, days, traditions of a bygone Covenant of Law (Romans 6:14; 7:6; Hebrews 8:7), but the Christian serves through the tutelage of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16; Galatians 5:16) and the enlivened Spiritual Law written upon the heart (Hebrews 10:16), a Spiritual Law which is arbitrated by a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) producing fruits of righteousness (Galatians 5:22-23) against which there is no law as these divine fruits fulfill all law, both codified and spiritual (Galatians 5:16-23).
Can New Covenant relationship with Elohim be motivated through a fear of Hell and a perception of Elohim as a God of anger and retribution?
Discussion,
Those who seek to love our Creator and desire intimacy with Him, knowledge of Him, are not motivated by a fear of Hell but a desire to know and honor the One who gave them life and they seek knowledge of the who, what, where, when, why, how, concerning this temporary life constrained by a temporary Realm of Time and physics.
Personally, I was not motivated to honor Elohim in response to fear but in response to Truth that was absorbed during my first thorough reading of the New Testament approximately 33-years ago; in fact, approximately one-half way through the New Testament I looked up from the pages of Scriptures and asked “Where has this (Scriptural Truth) been all my life?” Hell was NOT on the radar or in the thought process…but an all-encompassing love and assurance resonated from the pages of Scripture and I could do NOTHING but respond in the affirmative to the Holy Spirit’s call upon my life…I BELIEVED what I had read and a change of heart immediately manifest!
In my humble opinion,
I don’t think a true intimate relationship with Elohim can manifest with purity and authenticity if FEAR is the motive for that relationship; this truism exists within human nature as well as true love and intimacy cannot exist in an atmosphere of fear or coercion; therefore, the one who sincerely enters into New Covenant relationship with the Father through faith in the Son is one motivated by love and awe and joy in knowing the One who is Causation for life, the Elohim who possesses the knowledge of why we exist, how we exist, our purpose in this life and in the life to come; therefore, it is “divine relationship” initiated through knowledge and love that inspires “New Covenant relationship” and not fear. It is through the mysteries of nature (Romans 1:20) and internalizing the Word of Elohim with a heart willing to receive that initiates New Covenant relationship with the Father; this, by believing what the Father has said concerning the Son, a testimony provided by the Holy Spirit that is responded to in the affirmative out of love, trust, assurance through faith (Romans 10:17).
Someone asked: “Why does the Scripture say that committing one sin makes you guilty of all?” (James 2:10) What alternative exists that makes one “right” with our Holy Creator?
Comment,
James 2:10 is complimented by Galatians 3:10 where we learn that the codified law (Sinai – Moses), in order to attain righteousness (a right standing) with the Father through law-keeping, the law must be kept, obeyed, in absolute perfection (James 2:10) because Elohim is Perfect in Holiness and Righteousness and NOTHING impure will ever enter the Kingdom (Rev 21:27); herein lies the human conundrum, everyone born of Adam’s genome has sinned and fallen short of Elohim’s standard of perfection (Romans 5:12; 3:23).
Therefore, anyone who seeks eternal covenant relationship with Elohim through law-keeping is under a “curse” (Galatians 3:10) because the law only defines our culpability but provides no form of reconciliation with the Father through atonement as mandated by Leviticus 17:11 (Romans 3:20); therefore, the Father, in His mercy and compassion and grace, offers us the righteousness- sinless perfection of His Son, Jesus Christ; this righteousness apart from the law (Romans 3:21); a gifted/imputed righteousness earned for us by Jesus’ perfection is imputed-gifted into and over our lives by faith in Jesus as our Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21); a divine gifting of righteousness as first pictured in Genesis 3:21 which is an act of pure grace (unmerited favor we did NOT earn) actuated through the simplicity of faith-trust-belief that Jesus is Messiah who died to atone for our sin-debt owed the Father, a sin-debt we could never pay our self through vain acts of obedience to a law, rule, day or diet.
As a result of this gifted-imputed righteousness of Messiah Jesus over our life through faith in Jesus as our Messiah, the Father then agrees, by New Covenant promise, to forgive-forget our sin, eternally (Hebrews 8:12), thereby reconciling fallen humanity back to Himself as we are made “positionally right” with Elohim via New Covenant promise; then, the Father endows the faithful in Jesus with the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) who continues a good work within the redeemed via daily sanctification (Galatians 5:16) where the Spirit enlivens the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart (Romans 2:14-15; 8:2) and mates that Spiritual Law with a redeemed conscience i.e. “the new creation” in Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:17) and the Spirit produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that fulfills all law, both codified and spiritual; in this, there is eternal peace with Elohim (Romans 5:1).
Therefore, James 2:10 testifies that righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim (Genesis 1:1) is not possible through the law or vain attempts to obey same but that righteousness with Elohim can only manifest through faith in the “Righteous One,” Jesus our Messiah, and this righteousness is gifted-imputed by New Covenant promise and said righteousness cannot be earned through self-righteousness and anyone who seeks covenant with Elohim through self-righteousness is “cursed” (Galatians 3:10).
Concerning those in bondage to Sinai and Moses…there is freedom and life in Christianity; this, through faith in Jesus and daily sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Romans 6:14; 7:6)…
Confession,
As a Christian, I know Sinai was given solely to Israel’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes and I know that Sinai is but a mere fragment of my Lord’s comprehensive Spiritual Law that has been extant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels; therefore, I find that in the New Covenant, I’m not under or obligated to Sinai or Moses’ letters but I’m under grace (Romans 6:14) and I don’t live my life pursuing letters etched in stone or scratched upon parchment but I walk daily in sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit who enlivens the spiritual law written upon my heart (Romans 2:15-16; 8:2) and mates that law with a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) given through my faith in Jesus and the Spirit produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) through me that fulfills all law, eternally; therefore, I do NOT live daily thinking about, enslaved to or seeking obedience to Sinai or Moses but I live by the Spirit’s guidance and He walks me daily in a manner that glorifies the Father; in this, there is intimacy and divine peace (Romans 5:1).
Perhaps, one day, if you find, accept, receive, Jesus as your Messiah and receive the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that New Covenant relationship (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14), you will understand these words and live by the Spirit and not in bondage to letters that only condemn and curse you void atonement (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; 2:16).
Concerning the current conflict between Israel’s IDF and Palestine’s “HAMAS” – Iran’s-Yemen’s Houthis – Lebanon’s “Hezbollah” // A response to the Palestinian sympathizers…
Israel was not “founded” in 1948…it’s been Israel’s land since Abraham…they just came “home” in response to the “Never Again” movement.
Israel is not the resultant of terrorism but of Elohim’s sovereign choice concerning His eschatological plan for Time and Eternity. Elohim’s covenant with Abraham concerning the Land of Israel was unconditional, meaning that the Land’s presence and its purposes are not contingent upon Israel’s faithfulness but upon Elohim’s sovereignty and His foreordained decision to save a “remnant” of Israel’s children through the Great Tribulation and initiate His Millennial Kingdom there where Messiah Yeshua will reign for 1000-years prior to the Judgement of Satan and the rebellious of humanity in Hell – an all consuming fire that will purify this Earth in preparation for the New Earth and a New Heaven as foundational to the New Jerusalem (Revelation 20-22).
That Jewish remnant that endures through the Tribulation era, those proselytized by the 144,000 sanctified Jewish witnesses from the 12-Tribes (Rev 7), will serve Yeshua in the Millennial Kingdom and they will believe in Yeshua and they will be the “redeemed” remnant spoken of by Isaiah, reiterated by Paul (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).
The current war between Israel’s IDF and HAMAS, Iran’s Islamic proxies, Yemen’s Houthis, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, is nothing more than a physical manifestation of the Kingdom War between Elohim v. Satan having manifest within the Realm of Time. Israel remains Elohim’s representatives in the Land given Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Islam is Satan’s representative through Allah via Muhammad via Ishmael via Hagar.
Careful that you not be found on the wrong side of History.
Concerning the “Serpent” in Genesis 3 and what Eve observed and her obsession and obedience to same,
Those who serve Satan are his “seed” or offspring (Genesis 3:15), they are his children, this includes fallen angels (demons) and the rebellious of humanity; that is, those angels who allied with Satan in the Great Kingdom War and those who ally with Satan within the Realm of Time through their rejection of Elohim’s will (John 6:29; John 8:44).
Satan was NEVER a literal serpent but the Holy Spirit uses the serpent as a metaphor for Satan in the Genesis Narrative as Satan’s attributes e.g., conniving-subtle-deadly are like those of the serpent. If you desire to know what Eve observed in Eden and why she was so enamored by Satan, the Holy Spirit provides us with Satan’s incredibly attractive physiological attributes in Ezekiel 28 and Jesus explains who are the “offspring” or “seed” of Satan in John 8.
Concerning the political/ideological/theological chasm existing between those who support the Nation of Israel and those who support Palestine/Gaza/HAMAS (Islam)…
For the Record concerning the current conflict between Israel v. Palestine (HAMAS), Lebanon (Hezbollah), Iran (their terrorist, Islamic proxies), Yemen (Houthis) and the political-ideological divide existing within the United States…KNOW YOUR ENEMY!
Concerning Islam,
The demonic root of Palestine’s HAMAS; Lebanon’s Hezbollah; Iran’s other terrorist proxies; Yemen’s Houthis, is the religious cult of Islam. Islam’s “Allah” is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god. Islam was founded by a 7th-Century nomadic demon-possessed pedophile murdering thief named Muhammad who plagiarized the Torah to construct the Quran. Islam is a demonic cult of death.
Islam’s root is the act of adultery between Abraham and Hagar producing the “wild ass” of a man named Ishmael, the father of the Islmaelites, who are the progenitor of the false prophet, Muhammad. Islam is Satan’s presence within the Realm of Time and physics.
Concerning Allah’s (Satan’s) objectives,
Allah’s (Satan’s) objective is the complete annihilation of Israel’s children and the nullification of the unconditional property covenant Elohim entered into with Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 13:15) as the “Land of Israel” is essential eschatological real estate relevant to the introduction of the Messiah whose primary purpose for entering the Realm of Time was “to destroy the works of the Devil (Allah)” (1 John 3:8b) via a divine battle strategy known as the Gospel of Grace which was first pictured in Genesis 3:21 but ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
Messiah’s purpose for entering the Realm of Time,
Messiah entered the Realm of Time due to an unfathomable angelic rebellion, a rebellion orchestrated by Satan-Allah, that manifest in the Kingdom of Elohim, a rebellion that necessitated a repository for that Kingdom War apart from the Kingdom which under girded the initiation of the Genesis Creation Narrative; this, as Elohim endeavors to restore order and peace to His Kingdom while simultaneously maintaining volitional love with His cherished angelic creation as He deals with the wiles of the Devil via selfless love and sacrifice via the Gospel.
Allah’s obsession with Israel,
Allah’s obsession with the children of Israel and the Land of Israel concerns Satan’s desire to make Elohim a liar concerning Elohim’s divine, sovereign, promises beginning with Genesis 3:15-21, continuing through Noah, Shem, Abraham; the Hebrew Tribes, Sinai, through Judah, through the prophets, through Messiah into the Age of Grace; the Crucifixion; the Gospel and Great Commission; the New Covenant Church; the Tribulation; the Millennial Kingdom; the judgment of Satan, the Beast, the False prophet, the fallen-rebellious angels/demons interned in Hell, forever; the Judgment of the Condemned intertwined with the purification of the Earth by fire; the creation of a New Heaven and a New Earth and ultimately the eternal placement of the New Jerusalem where the redeemed in Messiah will serve Him in resurrected bodies, forever.
Allah’s tactics,
Allah-Satan has pursued his goal of proving Elohim a liar through the failures and demonic compromise of the Adamic/Noahic generations resulting in the annihilation of humanity save eight; the failures of Israel’s children to honor Elohim’s covenants, their unbelief/rejection of Messiah, their unfaithfulness with Baal/Molech.
Allah-Satan sought to defile/deter the Messiah through demonic temptation and the horrors of Roman Crucifixion; Allah-Satan was integral to Herod’s slaughter of innocence to murder the Messiah; Allah-Satan assumed he had won victory at Golgotha; Allah-Satan inspired Titus-the 10th-Roman Legion’s destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD; Allah-Satan conspired with Hitler concerning “The Final Solution” and the Jewish Holocaust; Allah-Satan, through his demons, possesses the heart, soul, mind, of every Islamist whose obsessive-compulsive objective in life is the death of every Israeli man, woman and child and the custody of Israel’s property into the hands of Allah’s servants, a Land bordered by the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Allah’s objective through Islam is the death of anyone who rejects the false prophet Muhammad and his demonic religion of Islam.
Spiritual-Political ramifications of Allah’s presence in Time and Politics, today…The United States…
As we witness the unfathomable rise and presence of antisemitism in the United States and around the World, understand that all we see in the conflict between Israel’s IDF and the armies of Islam is SPIRITUAL in nature; this conflict is nothing more than a physical manifestation of the ongoing Spiritual conflict between good v. evil, Elohim v. Satan.
Also, know that every man and woman who supports the armies of Islam, whether they be represented by Palestine – Jordan – Iran – Lebanon – Yemen or any other Nation – State throughout the World, these are servants of Satan. This is why those in the United States who march for Palestine supporting the terrorist organization of HAMAS and express fervent hatred for Israel; these, overwhelmingly belong to a Political Party that advocates for the murder of babies in the womb; the uncensored and undeterred expansion of sexual perversion throughout American society via LGBTQ objectives which specifically target America’s children and seek the destruction of the Biblical family unit (Allah loathes the Biblical family); this is why Marxism and Progressivism and Abortion and BLM and ANTIFA and DEI and reverse discrimination AKA Affirmative Action mandates, are worshiped like gods among those who identify with the Democrat-Progressive-Marxist-Secular Humanist Party of the United States; therefore, know your enemy.
You will know them by their fruits (Matthew 7:15-20). Elohim is victorious through Messiah Jesus (Revelation 5:5).
Question was asked in a religious forum “…why [are] these people of Israel still keeping the ten commandments even though the covenant was faulted[?]”
Explanation,
Israel’s children rejected Messiah Yeshua sent to them (Matthew 15:24) and chose self-righteousness through law-keeping (Torah Law-Sinai-Moses) as opposed to faith in the One who kept the Law for us (Matthew 5:17) and offers us His righteousness imputed-gifted into and over our lives by faith in Him as Messiah; this, in exchange for our sin via New Covenant promise (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:7); therefore, Israel has stumbled over the Stumbling Stone laid in Zion (Romans 9:32); therefore, only a remnant of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell due unbelief (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27; Rev 20:11-15); for this error, Israel’s children have been placed under Judgment, the Gospel taken from them and given to the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of Elohim (Romans 11:25). This divine reality is relevant and observable to this very day. Yeshua is the only Way to life in the Kingdom of Elohim and this divine reality is an immutable Truth for Jew, Israelite, Gentile (John 14:6).
30 What shall we say, then That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is.
Satan’s portal into Christianity via Charismata, factions of Pentecostalism and other works cults via false doctrines, be aware and know your enemy…
Discussion,
Satan is alive and well in these FB religious debate forums and his sincerely deceived servants vomit the Devil’s agenda with a stubborn heart and corrupted theology that potentially destroys the Christian walk of the naïve and the unlearned who are defenseless to the tantalizing words of wickedness and religion.
Sinless Christianity – An ungodly heresy that confuses and dissuades the naïve…
I am amazed at the number of well-meaning charismatic contributors in these forums who espouse the godless heresy of “sinless perfectionism” or “sinless Christianity.” The entire false premise of attaining sinless perfectionism subsequent redemption by faith is a detachment from reality, a rejection of reality, a spiritual illness absorbed into factions of Pentecostalism and other forms of silly Charismata.
The only righteousness, the only perfection, sinful humanity can attain in a body of flesh condemned to death due the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12) is the sinless perfection of Jesus imputed-gifted into and over the life of the one who believes-trusts in Jesus as Messiah (1 Peter 1:18-19); this righteousness earned for us by Jesus’ blood atonement provided at Golgotha and it is NOT a righteousness of our own but a gifted righteousness by faith that initiates the Father’s covenant promise of “not guilty” based solely on the work of Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12). If we say we have no sin we are a liar and the truth is not in us; hence, the need for 1 John 1:9 due 1 John 1:8; both, written to the redeemed in Jesus.
Tongues – Demonic paganism having entered the portals of a form of Christianity that insults the Spirit,
Biblical Tongues were a reality for the First-Century Church at Pentecost (Acts 2) as these actual “languages” and dialects spoken and interpreted by those having not studied were given as a sign to unbelieving Jews that the Holy Spirit, as promised integral with a New Covenant (Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36), had indeed manifest upon the Earth and the Spiritual gift of tongues was also given as a tool of proliferation relevant to the “Great Commission” (Matthew 28) as the Gospel was to be preached to all the Nations of the known World. With the advent of the first Canon, the Muratorian canon (circa 180AD), Biblical tongues faded away as the perfect Word had manifest and was complete in its message.
Today’s Pentecostal and Charismatic “tongues” are pagan in origin finding their genesis in the pagan temple at Delphi adjacent to Corinth and the intoxicated, gibberish, oracles of “enlightenment” provided by a pagan priestess having inhaled an intoxicating substance burning below her throne. This pagan ritual carried over into the Church at Corinth and resulted in much consternation for Paul who ultimately instructed women to remain silent in the Church services due the confusion created by the pagan practice among the women in attendance (1 Corinthians 14:33-36).
Water Baptism – a works doctrine of Pentecostalism and other forms of Charismata…
There exists only TWO-elements relevant to the Salvation “process;” that is, repentance (Luke 13:3) and faith (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:21; John 3). Water Baptism is an act – work of obedience that follows salvation but water is not an element of salvation nor is water causative or regenerative (John 3; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9).
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What is the danger of these Charismatic doctrines of demons slithering through the portals of Christianity?
The “dangers” of Charismata and false doctrine promulgated through same is the eternal damnation of the soul of the naïve and the unlearned who enter into a Pentecostal/Charismatic congregation and observe the madness of pagan gibberish, the out of touch with reality behavior relevant to “sinless perfectionism,” and the salvation by works espoused by water baptism as a regenerative element of salvation.
The dangers of charismatic tongues,
The unlearned, the naïve, who legitimately admit they don’t speak in a tongue subsequent their confession of faith are told that the “Sign” of their redemption, salvation, the presence of the Holy Spirit in their life is the “gift of tongues” and if one does not speak in a tongue, they are not redeemed, they are not saved from the “second death” in the Hell; therefore, a façade of tongues follows but a deep nervousness and worry and absence of joy and peace exists in the honest but deceived Christian proselyte because they KNOW they’re speaking gibberish and nonsense yet they comply out of “duty” to the masses, out of pride, and a sincere desire to belong in communion with fellow believers…this is cultic…this is heresy.
The dangers of “sinless Christianity,”
Also, the naïve, the unlearned, the new Christian proselyte who is told that subsequent their confession of faith they will become “sinless” and live in true purity, holiness, before our Lord yet those who have maintained a connection with reality understand that they’re NOT sinless in word, thought or deed and once again, doubt, fear, unworthiness, creep into their walk with Jesus through the Holy Spirit and peace, intimacy, with our Creator is destroyed due false doctrine promulgated by certain factions of Pentecostalism and other ungodly forms of charismata.
The heresy of water baptism as an element of salvation,
Also, the naïve, the unlearned, who are told they must be baptized in water in order to complete the salvation process, these are baptized into a works cult that denies the sole-sufficiency of Jesus’ blood to atone for sin by faith, alone. Any façade of Christianity that teaches water baptism is essential for salvation is a works cult and serves the desires of the Devil, not Messiah. Water baptism is a “work” of obedience that follows salvation by grace though faith, alone.
In conclusion,
Beware of the works of the Devil slithering through the pages and doctrines espoused by his servants in these “religious” forums. The purity of the Gospel is this, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved; this by faith in what Jesus did for you at Golgotha.
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