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Originally Posted by Esaias
If salvation wasn't found in this Way, then *I* wouldn't be part of it.
If salvation was found in the Baptist way, then believe I'd be a Baptist.
If salvation was found in the doctrine of John Wesley, I'd be a Wesleyan Methodist.
But I found salvation in the Bible. And lo and behold, so did a lot of other folks. And it includes knowing there is One God, One Faith, One Baptism, One Spirit, One Body. It is in accordance with the doctrine of the apostles of Jesus Christ. It proclaims repentance and remission of sins, in the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, it proclaims there is NO salvation (repentance and remission of sins) in ANY OTHER NAME, and it proclaims that repenting and being baptised in THAT ONE, SAVING NAME is where obedience to the gospel begins.
Anything other than what the apostles taught is not real Christianity, and will not save anyone. How could it?
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I disagree with this "us 4 and no more" kind of thinking.
I am Apostolic true blue, just not the UPCI kind, however I tend to embrace all Apostolics of every stripe.
Now when it comes to the Trinitarians, I do not say they are saved, but neither do I say they are lost, for I do not feel it is my place to sit in judgment of them, that is God's job.
If we had to have perfect doctrine or theology in order to be saved then none of us would be saved for in my many years in the Apostolic camp, I have never met a person that had perfect doctrine, not even me.
of course there are always pretenders who hint that they only have perfect theology and if anyone does not agree with them 100% then they are lost and in their way to hell, without passing go, without collecting 200 dollars.
I do hope that perhaps God will be merciful and take in Baptists, Methodists, and even Catholics, why not?
I do not see nothing contradictory or inconsistent in preaching the Apostolic message and yet hoping that the Trinitarians will also be saved, after all they too have faith in Jesus Christ, perhaps an imperfect faith, but faith nevertheless.
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