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On a side note, show me where the expression "Three persons in one essence", or "the Holy Trinity", or "One Person in two natures", or "Sola Scriptura" is found in the Bible, and I will show you where any expressions I ever write down here are found in the Bible.First of all every saint in the Old Trstament from the time of Adam till Christ death had the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of the Father before the Holy Ghost baptism was given as scripture teaches.
Secondly I am no against the saints having a live feast together and remembering the Lord in the bread and cup. But show me the expression “grace filled ordinances”
It is you I fear that do not discern the body of Christ
We being manybare one bread and one body and we are all partakers of that one bread.
Of a more focused note, there is no denying that the Holy Spirit was ministering throughout the Old Testament period of revelation. However, there is also no denying that the ministry of the Holy Spirit since the glorification of Christ, Whose own ministry as the God-man has made this possible, has emphatically been transformed into a form of ministry that is exponentially greater than and superior to anything prior. To deny this New Testament Truth is to deny the True nature of the New Testament and the Gospel.
The Bible is also clear on something else: It clearly witnesses to the fact that while the power of God (Holy Spirit) can manifest without them, God still chooses for crude materials to be involved in many manifestations of His Power, by causing and allowing these physical materials to become conduits, vehicles, and vessels in which His power can reside in and flow through, from Himself to the world and to us. I think you know Scripture sufficiently that I don't need to point to any specific texts to illustrate this happening. This being the case as it is. There isn't anything in God's Word to suggest that water Baptism had ought to be done away with. It was never done away with until the sixteenth century. Thus, this is not a reform of Church practice. Rather, it is an annihilation of it.
Mostly all of the so-called reformers didn't actually reform Christianity. No, they only succeeded in dismantling and destroying much of it. Jan Hus alone, in my opinion, is the only true reformer among all famous reformers, because all he did was to denounce certain innovations (and apostasies) that had developed from within the Roman jurisdiction of the Church which had come to distinguish and separate it from its sister Churches throughout the remainder of the Christian world. Yet in the process, Hus did not, to my knowledge, become a teacher of any heresy. Had they listened to Hus and repented, instead of burning Him alive, they would have restored their Communion in the Church. Instead, they persisted in their un-catholic doctrines and abuses.
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