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Originally Posted by derAlte
I’m not sure I understand completely the definitions of one-steppers, two-steppers, and three-steppers that have been bandied about on this forum. It reminds me of antique dances from the Jim Crow South i.e. The South Georgia Two-Step. (I can picture this being the title on a ratty old piece of sheet music from the 1920s sitting on my grandmother's upright piano with a picture of Eddie Cantor in blackface.)
Straighten me out if I’m wrong…one-steppers believe you’re saved when you believe or accept Christ as your personal Savior and if you get hit with a meteor at the altar or after shaking the preacher's hand but before you make it into the baptismal tank, it’s all good. Two-steppers must believe that after repentance and water baptism in Jesus’ Name the meteor strikes while you’re still all wet and shivering in the changing room drying your hair, then you’re still in like Flynn. Three steppers must believe the full Acts 2:38 message, i.e. you better be talking in tongues instead of shivering when that meteor hits you if you want to make heaven your home. I know I’m being a smart-mouth but do I perceive this correctly?
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You understand.
The Bible is wholistic not fragmented like some would perceive.
If the apostles taught it was about steps then the steps would far surpass three. People tend to try to make a Ray Kroc/Henry Ford religion. Jesus becomes the Burger Boy. He makes it fast, He makes it easy, you aren't judged. You come to Him in sin, and stay with Him in sin. You are a sinner saved by Grace, and remain a sinner even while you are in heaven eating a bowl full of healing leaves.
Mainstream Christianity is about being wretched creatures unable to be transformed by the Cross of Jesus Christ.
They constantly remind you that they despise their own behavior but never change that behavior. They stay in churches were the Holy Ghost isn't sought to the receiving of it. No tongues, no changes, continually giving excuses that they can't stop thinking thoughts which would make the devil shudder.
Hence the steps get whittled down to a meager one or two.