I NEVER said Jesus was not the Saviour of all men. What I did say was that people under different dispensations were not saved the same way.....as I pointed out in my last post.
First, you contradict yourself by saying Jesus was the
ONLY WAY
to God and then, in the same breath, saying people were saved
in
OTHER WAYS. That is not what the Bible Teaches. Jesus alone
is the "
Lamb of God" and animal sacrifices did not save anyone,
they only POINTED to what Jesus would do. This is a very BASIC
and essential element of the Gospel... theology 101.
Secondly, please READ my post in the other thread again...
Notice I gave SCRIPTURES to support TEN (10) specific points
and highlighted in
BLUE the point that you needed to harmonize
those Scripture INTO your "theories" before you could PRETEND
to understand the Gospel of the Bible. However you NEGLECTED
to do that... so I cannot take your response seriously UNTIL you
harmonize the SCRIPTURES I gave you with your "theory".
To simply state your "theory" again... without addressing ALL of
the contradicting passages... is to only PRETEND that you know
the Gospel of the Bible, since there are NO CONTRADICTIONS in
the Gospel - but MANY contradictions in your theory.
NONE of these things are true about baptism with the Holy Spirit....it does not save, it was not commanded to anyone, it would not last till the end ot time, etc.
You err because you do not understand the Gospel.
First, there is
ONE BAPTISM (that is effective) and water baptism
is just a "sign" or "shadow" showing what God has already done
in your heart of the regenerated, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Note: Water baptism does not SAVE anyone, any more than
circumcision SAVED... both were an outward "sign" or "shadow"
showing what God had done within. This is very BASIC and
essential understandings of the Gospel.
Eph_4:5
One Lord, one faith,
one baptism,
Mat_3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes
I am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
God saves but whom does He save and why? God saves those that obey Him.
Well, there you have it. You preach a false "works gospel"
where MEN initiate their salvation by doing some "good work"
such as saying the sinner's prayer or making an altar call or receiving
water baptism or repenting of SOME sin or "inviting" Jesus into their
hearts or DECIDING (a mental work) to "believe" or have "faith"...
then God
SEES that good work man has done and God is then
OBLIGATED to finish the salvation process MAN has begun.
That is known as the heresy of "synergism" and it is the
BROAD WAY that leads many "Christians" into destruction.
The True Gospel is that God "
chooses" or "
elects" whom He will
save before the foundation of the world based ONLY on His Good
Pleasure and NOT on any "work" that person would do during their
lifetime. This Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace is a "monergistic"
Gospel and the
narrow way that leads men into eternal life...
and
FEW "Christians" find it.
So whose transgressions were redeemed under the first testament (OT)? Those that rebelled and would not obey God? No. Those that would obey God as Noah, Moses, Abraham, David, John's parents? Yes!!!
There you go again, you REJECT and INTENTIONALLY IGNORE
the Scripture (in both the OT and NT) that PROMISE that NO MAN
will ever "seek God" unless/until he is regenerated.
When you reject or intentionally IGNORE the SCRIPTURES that
contradict your "theory" then you are only demonstrating that
you do not understand the Gospel at all... and you have decided
to design your OWN "gospel" based on the verses you LIKE and
IGNORING the verses you don't like (because they contradict you)
This is a common practice of those not understanding the Gospel
and this practice prevents real saints from ever taking you seriously.
Again, read my post in the other thread again...
there are SCRIPTURES contradicting your "theory" and
commends written in
BLUE that must be addressed BEFORE
you can be taken seriously.
Listen, if you want to be taken seriously then you will FIRST need
to ADDRESS the SCRIPTURES I provided and respond to EACH of
the ten (10) comments I made in
BLUE. When you simply reject
or intentionally ignore the SCRIPTURES I provide then you only
show you do not understand the Gospel....
Like the Scripture that teach some men were
NEVER MEANT
to "
perceive" or "
understand" the Gospel, or "
be converted"
or "
have their sins forgiven" [Mark 4:10-11]
Like the Scripture that teach some men were
CREATED to be
"
vessels of mercy" (saved) while other men were
CREATED to be
"
vessels of wrath" (unsaved)
Let me know when/if you want to be taken seriously by
ADDRESSING my post instead of just ignoring the SCRIPTURES
I presented to repeat your "theories".... which were declared to be
heresy by the early church and the Reformers. You have presented
NOTHING NEW, just the same "works gospel" and misconceptions
preached by the unsaved "tares" in the church for almost 2000 yrs.
Jim