You are teaching false doctrine inspired by religious cults. You are made “alive” in Jesus through New Covenant promise of the indwelling Holy Spirit who takes up residence within those who trust in Jesus as their Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14). Water does NOTHING but get you wet. Water baptism is a work, an act, of obedience to the Great Commission (Matthew 28) that follows salvation by grace (unmerited favor) through faith-belief-trust in Jesus as the One who died for you to provide you blood atonement for your sin (Romans 4:4-5).
Warning: if you enter baptismal waters with the mindset that your action or effort is supplementing the sufficiency of Jesus to atone for your sin, you are not redeemed, you remain in your sin, you are on the broad road to the second death. Water is NOT causative, it can’t atone for sin nor can your human efforts, only the sinless blood of Jesus is accepted by the Father for the remission of sin not your works, not your water.
18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
You said: “Faith without deeds is dead.” This is true, saving faith will naturally produce good fruit (Matthew 7; Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:8).
James teaches that those who are saved by legitimate faith, having received the indwelling Holy Spirit by “believing” in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14), they will produce divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23; Romans 7; John 15:8) that validates their faith; note, this is concerning those who have been saved by faith, alone, in Jesus, alone (Romans 4:4-5); that is, having received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor and Seal of New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, it is a theological imperative that you understand these deeds/works/obedience don’t precede salvation, these works are NOT “causative,” but they are reactionary; in other words, divine fruit that pleases the Father is only produced SUBSEQUENT salvation by faith in Jesus, alone, and that divine fruit is only possible via the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit who is ONLY given as a result of legitimate, saving, faith in Jesus (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16). James does NOT teach a works salvation (James 2:14-26); in fact, James teaches the futility of works as salvation in James 2:10..
Water does NOT wash away sin, sins are washed away only by grace (unmerited favor you cannot earn) through faith, belief, in Jesus as your Messiah as only the sinless “blood” of Jesus atones for sin and fulfills the atonement mandates of Leviticus 17:11 (1 Peter 1:18-19) not water or water baptism. Water baptism is an “act” or “work” of obedience that “follows” salvation by grace through faith as commanded in the Great Commission (Matthew 28).
You belong to a works cult and you have been deceived into believing that your act of entering water has washed away your sin, this is heresy as only the blood of Jesus washes away sin (Matthew 26:27-29). You have denied the sole-sufficiency of Jesus to atone for your sin apart from your works, your input, your own self-righteousness; therefore, you remain in your sin, you are on the “broad road” to the second death in Hell. Jesus warned you about this in Genesis 3:21 (Adam’s attempt to cover his shame with fig leaves) and in Matthew 7:21-23.
Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,Innocent substitute. Replaced fig leave of human righteousness.
The Holy Spirit disagrees with you. I trust in the power of the Spirit to seal me, keep me…as my sin has been covered by the imputed, gifted, righteousness of Jesus earned for me at Golgotha (2 Corinthians 5:21). My righteousness (right standing) with the Father is NOT my own, but the righteousness of Jesus in me through faith…this is my divine Guarantee of salvation, not my efforts, but HIS, alone (Galatians 2:16; Romans 4:4-5).
If I lived as you in your rejection of eternal security, if I did not trust in the Spirit to Guarantee my salvation and my relationship with the Father, I could not experience peace and assurance as I would wonder daily…have I done anything that bars me from salvation? Have I been sufficiently “good” to keep my salvation…you see, your perverse doctrine manifests inevitably into a “works doctrine” which is repulsive to the Father (Isaiah 64:6). You trust in you to be saved and redeemed and secure. That’s but one reason Catholicism is a works cult…it denies the sufficiency of Jesus to save and keep us saved through the Spirit, alone.
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
No one with commonsense, let alone a basic knowledge and understanding of Theology, would suggest law has “been done away with.” Law is eternal as same is an arbiter of the conscience concerning sustainable, moral, behavior as that conscience functions under the parameters of “free will” by necessity.
Where Hebrew Roots parishioners suffer is a misunderstanding or refusal to accept how “law” is honored by the redeemed in Jesus via the New Covenant. Those who have trusted in Jesus as Messiah are not under letters, laws, diets, days, traditions, of the Old Covenant (Romans 6:14); those in the New Covenant honor the Father’s will through the production of divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) that is produced via the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit through the redeemed conscience of the faithful in Jesus (Ephesians 1:13-14; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8; Romans 7:6). These don’t live life contemplating Torah, Moses, letters, feasts, diets, Sabbaths, that only condemned void hope but their focus is the Holy Spirit and obedience is the production of fruit that honors the Father and proves one to be a disciple of Jesus (Romans 7:6; John 15:8).
Skeptic stated: “A single being as three persons is a fairy tale.”
Why does anyone deny the Trinity that is extant throughout the Scriptures?
Why does anyone suggest that Elohim lacks omnipotence sufficient to reveal Himself within the Realm of Time in any fashion He so desires, whether that be a speaking donkey, a pillar of smoke, a burning bush, or in the flesh of man?
Is not the World and the Universe HIS to do with as He pleases?
Why do sinful and spiritually ignorant men suggest they can limit what Elohim is able to accomplish within the Realm of the Spiritual and the temporary Realm of Time?
This is the foolishness of man defined and the absence of faith, faith that pleases Elohim.
Elohim the Father = Administrator
Elohim the Son = Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge
Elohim the Holy Spirit – Logistics, the “dunamis” of all things eschatological.
