Not Just The "Other" Pentecostals

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Harrell 01 wrote:

> > ...in the other case, you are baptizing by *SOLVING* the formula.
> > The quote presents a puzzle -- an well formed formula, or WFF, that
> > must be resolved with the set of support, or SOS, of the rest of the body
> > of scripture.
>
> I refuse to believe that God has made salvation a game or a joke. There
> is nothing that needs to be solved in order to gain salvation...no mystery
> that needs to be revealed.
>

Salvation is not a puzzle nor a game. That is why it is important to know history
and why things are the way they are. The confusion is man's doings, especially
the Greek Philosophers in 100AD thru 400AD. There was no confusion with the
Apositles when it came to salvation, the message that they and Jesus preached was
simple and to the point. However, man has consistantly chipped away and
intorduced more and more paganism to make it acceptable to the non-Christians
while retaining enough to not alienate the existing Christians. These changes to
centuries it become and accepted dogma. Now they seem right, but are they? Do we
have to be baptized to be saved?? Well why take a chance, I do not know what the
Lord will do, but He commanded baptism and the Apostiles taught it and preformed
them, so to say "I dont have to be baptized" is taking a chance that I personally
wont take and I tell this to all that ask. Kinda like Russian Roulette, the odds
are 1 in 6....but why chance it??

Reminds me of Naaman and Elisha (just wash seven times and leprosy would be
cleansed, but Naaman wanted a more grand cure), man never wants to follow the
Lord's way, so he has preverted it.

Lord Bless,
Bro. Bill Clifton
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