New Birth

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by shag

It doesn't matter if you love God with all your heart, mind soul, & strength... It doesn't matter if you've repented of your sin, & are seeking 1st the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, or if you pray continually to know & fulfill Gods purpose in your life.. It doesn't matter if you spend your life trying to understand and obey Gods word. Or even study academicly to translate it into a readable language for others. None of it matters, because you're not born again if you have not spoken in tongues, or your baptiser didn't say "in the name of Jesus" when he put you under water. And millions upon millions have came up short, for centuries, never were born again, and will not go to heaven, because they didn't follow protocol according to the last few decades of basically the "UPCI's revelation" of being born from above. After all, Cornelius would not have made it to heaven.


That's a pretty hard pill to swallow.

Almost as bad as it not mattering if Jesus is Son of God or that he so much as died on a cross!

[shag]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Almost as bad as it not mattering if Jesus is Son of God or that he so much as died on a cross!

It's one thing to divide on believing or not that Jesus is the son of God, quite another to not only believe He is, but be baptized and go on to love him with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, obey his words the best you know how, have a consistant prayer life, and spend most of your time daily trying to listen and heed his voice and instruction to know what to say to people(witnessing) for Christ. Spend ones life trying to be the Potters clay. Yet not having another person having spoken the name of Jesus aloud right before baptizing you, thereby spending ones life only to not make it to heaven. So much for John 6:35-37 and other parts of Johns letters, because the thankfully for us, the UPCI had a revelation a few decades back, now everyone since then has a chance to go to heaven.
Do you believe if you lived before the 20th century, do you believe you would've received the 3 step "revelation" that nobody else did back then, preceding the UPC?