As a watchman, I am glad to announce that another time of reformation has come. It is the time reformation of The Salvation Army Doctrines of “no water Baptism and Holy Communion”. I have obtained a more excellent ministry, with better covenant and promises than that of William booth of the Salvation Army - Heb 8:6.
“For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Judah:” Heb 8:7-8
The Salvation Army Doctrine No.7 says “We believe that repentance towards God, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit is necessary to salvation”.
It means water baptism and Holy Communion are not necessary to salvation according to them. But the Bible says “except a man be born of water and spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John3:5 Act 10:44-48. Peter said that can any one forbid water that these ones should be baptized who have received the Holy Ghost just as we have. But the Salvation Army forbid water that people should not be baptized, thus being against the scripture.
The Bible too says “verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whosoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life…” John 6:53-58, 1 Cor 11:24-25. The bread of the Holy Communion symbolizes that flesh of Jesus and the Wine of the Holy Communion symbolizes the blood of Jesus, just as the church symbolizes the body of Christ. Why do the Salvation Army believe that the church is the body of Christ but disbelieve that the one bread of the Holy Communion symbolizes the body of Christ too? They are out of the way. They believe in heresy. Of all men, they are most miserable.
Their argument is that the thief on the cross was saved even though he was not baptized. But they forget that the thief could have been baptized by John the Baptist or Christ disciples before he was caught in robbery.
Their second argument is that the disciples all deserted Jesus before crucifixion. That when they were baptized with the Holy Spirit they were strong and Peter preached and converted 3000 souls in a day. This argument is not true because the same Peter after resurrection of Jesus withdrew from eating with the Gentiles and made Barnabbas to also go astray. Peter was rebuked and corrected openly by Paul. Therefore the argument does not hold at all for Peter still sinned ever though baptized with the Holy Spirit.
They also argue that people still sin after they must have been baptized with water. Then the question comes, “don’t they sin after they have been baptized with the Holy Spirit”? And don’t they sin when not baptized in water? But thanks be to God for the Bible says “for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more” Heb 8:12.
Also, “But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people” Heb 9:7.
Therefore whether you are baptized with water and/or Holy Spirit you will still make mistakes and errors as a Christian. God do show us mercy for there is no man that does not sin according to 2 Chron. 6:36, Ps 3:2,3,8-14. They also allow women to have authority over men when the Bible says the woman should learn in silence. This doctrine is against the scripture and should not be accepted.
Some other Christians in other churches are guilty of mutilating their flesh (men and or women)- Phil 3:2, Gal 5:1-4, Col 2:8, 14-23. Circumcision is part of the ordinance of Moses. It belongs to the Jews in the flesh (i.e is the physical Israel) and not for Gentiles. All other nations are Gentiles. They are spiritual sons of Abraham. Abraham has too kinds of children–children before his circumcision which are the Gentiles. They are not to be circumcised. And children after he was circumcised which are the Jews. These ones are to be circumcised.
God is both the God of the living and the dead, that was why Jesus had to die so that he could go to preach to the dead in prison in time of the flood of Noah, that he would be both Lord of the living and the dead. Similarly Abraham is both the father of the circumcised and the uncircumcised. If you have been mistakenly circumcised, don’t go ahead to circumcise your children otherwise you will be guilty of the blood of Christ. You will be dwelling in heresy like the Salvation Army.
Now that your eyes have been opened to know the truth which can set you free what should you do than to “come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will received you, and I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty”. 2Cor.6:17-18, 1 Tim. 6:3-5.
Again it says, Wherefore as the Holy Ghost said, “Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me, provoke and saw my works forty years so wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, they do always err in their heart and they have not known my ways”. Heb. 3:7-10.
You have been perfectly shown the way of God now therefore you will have no excuse if you refuse to obey.
For if we sin willfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remain no more sacrifice for sins. But a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. Heb. 10:26-33.
I have done this to provoke you unto love and good works therefore I’m not guilty of your blood if you refuse – Heb. 10:28, Eze. 33:1-20. Don’t be like a dog, returning to your vomit neither be like a pig returning to the mud after being washed. You are clean because of this word spoken to you, John 15:3. Peace be with you.
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