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The following Scriptures signify the mode of baptism that was practiced by the NT Saints. How could Jesus go straitway up out of the water with the baptism of sprinkling? We are buried with him in baptism, which represents to the world that we are dead to our old nature, buried, and resurrected to the new life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Mar 1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:

Mat 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Are you saying that none of the OT Saints could call on God because they were dead? They were not born again!

Paul was a very devoted and obedient Pharisee. According to the Law, he was perfect—he was serving God and keeping his laws.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: (Phi 3:4)

Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a **Hebrew of the Hebrews**; as touching the law, a Pharisee; (Phi 3:5)

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the **righteousness which is in the law, blameless**. (Phi 3:6)

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. (Phi 3:7)

God revealed the truth of Jesus Christ and the New Covenant to him on the Damascus Road.

No Scriptures prove that humanity is not a free moral agent and that grace is irresistible. The Sovereignty of God is not diminished because He created humanity with free will, nor because Satan captivates by his free will strategies.

Humanity in his fallen state has no inclination towards God. This is seen in heathen countries where the inhabitants are engulfed in all manner of evils with no feeling of guilt or condemnation. The preaching of the gospel is the method ordained by God to bring light to the souls in darkness. Once the light has shined into their dark hearts, the Spirit does its work and their conscience begins to stir as they feel the dreaded hand of God in eternal judgment upon their souls.

"I wonder which Pentecostals are obeying the word of God: Abigail's group, Oneness, Finished Work, Second Work, charismatic Catholics, charismatic Protestants, gay or straight?"
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The only ones that are obeying the Word of God are the ones that are living the Word, allowing Jesus Christ to be Lord of their lives, following the example and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Joh14:15If ye love me, keep my commandments.

16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever;

17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Sir, every word you wrote is scripture and is eternally true. However, none of these Scriptures state that humanity is not a free moral agent and does not have the ability to accept or resist the Spirit.

The Word of God states that He will be found of them that diligently seek Him—He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him—to seek Him while He may be found—seek and you shall find—ask and it shall be given unto you.

In the state of carnality in which we were born, we are wretched sinners in need of Savior. Without Him we can do nothing—we are nothing. But He graciously saves all who call upon Him with a repentant heart in sincerity. He is the Savior of all mankind.

Acts 2:38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

As seen in the text, baptism [replacing circumcision] is not the promise. The New Covenant promise is the infilling of the Holy Ghost, which is the rebirth, without which no person shall be saved. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Christ indwelling the saints.

Heb 8:8For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

"Again you wrongly presume that the person "falling away" has been regenerated. No where do to the scriptures say that one that has been born again "falls away". If Salvation is by Grace, so is perserverance by grace. The one who comes in from another way than the door of the sheepfold, i.e. one who is working for his salvation, he will certainly fall away because he does not believe the truth; he is not justified by faith alone. He is like the man who cleans himself up outwardly, and then the evil spirit returns with 7 others to a cleaned up house. The end of that man is worse than the beginning. He is fallen away to a worse state.
"And I give unto them ETERNAL LIFE and they shall NEVER perish; neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." John 10:28.
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The Holy Ghost is given only to those that obey the Word of God.

Act 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

1Jo 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Jam 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Jam 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Your post makes no sense. Being spiritually dead and physically dead are two entirely different things. When Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they were not physically dead when they were expelled from the Garden of Eden.

Being dead in trespasses and sins means the person has not been born again—has not received ETERNAL LIFE, which is the gift that Jesus Christ offered by His death on the cross. However, they have their cognizance about themselves—they have a conscience—they have the ability to perceive right from wrong.

The carnal mind is the natural mind. Even though the carnal mind is at enmity with God, the drawing power of God works on the carnal mind to bring a change of heart that results in repentance and acceptance of the Savior's atoning blood.

"If you believe you can resist God then you probably do!
When man is still in the natural state he is at enmity with God, therfore will resist trying to make any good spiritual decisions, iaw Scripture.
Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Try not to remain the enemy of God and His Son Jesus, Yamil, for your own soul if for none other.
Remember the example of the Laodicean church."
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How could the Laodicean Church be an example of your statements?

They were born again Christians that had lost sight of what Christianity is. They were backslidden. They were rich and increased with goods and thought they had need of nothing and knew not that they were naked, wretched, and blind. They lost their salvation if the didn't repent.

" Jesus taught one could enter the Kingdom of God only after being born again (Jn 3:3, Jn 3:5). Jesus also taught that all who were given to Him by the Father would indeed come to Him and be raised at the last day (Jn 6:37-40, Jn 10:27-29, Jn 17:1-2). It follows that all given by the Father to Christ will be born again."
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These words are truth, but humanity has the ability to respond affirmatively or negatively. God foreknew the response of each individual. Many are called but few are chosen. The chosen few are those that are willing to forsake self to follow the Lamb. Jesus Christ died on the cross for all humanity and whosoever will may come and drink of the waters of life freely (Rev 22:17).

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to **every creature** He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (Mar 16:15-16)

Who gave himself a ransom for **all**, to be testified in due time. (1Ti 2:6)

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the **iniquity of us all**. (Isa 53:6)

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the **whole world**. (1Jo 2:2)

"The reference here is to the correct recipients of baptism. Namely children of covenanted parents. eg Acts 2:39.
The Biblical mode of baptism is to pour water over an infant of Christian Parents."
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Book, Chapter and verse, please!!

Acts 2:39 says no such thing!!

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Act 2:39)

The promise to you and your children is the promise of the baptism of the Holy Ghost that God has poured out on all flesh--not baptism in water.

Acts 2:38-39. Peter has preached the gospel to the Jews that were assembled because of the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. He has quoted from Joel the words, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my hand maidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit."

He then proves from OT scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah and speaks of the prophecies concerning Him in the Psalms and how He is exalted on the right hand of God the Father, and that God has made Jesus, whom they had crucified, both Lord and Christ. The people were pricked to the heart and asked, "What shall we do?" Peter said, "REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SIN, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST."

The promise that is unto you and unto your children is the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. The Word is not teaching or confirming that children are to be baptized.

"Thousands of pastors hung on every word that emanated from the lips of the church growth experts. Satellite seminars were packed with hungry church leaders learning the latest way to "do church." The promise was clear: Thousands of people and millions of dollars couldn't be wrong…"
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The apostate churches have all fallen into this same trap. Congregations are deceived into believing they are saved because they once said a prayer of formality asking Jesus to reside in their hearts, while they live any way they so desire paying no heed to the divine Word of God.

Their strategy must be failing now—so they are going to try a new approach. Money is still the name of the game called "church" orchestrated by Satan.

People can make the Bible say anything they want it to say—simply take out of context, distort, misinterpret, or wrest Scriptures.

2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

God is no respecter of persons. Jesus Christ died on the cross to save the world from eternal damnation and destruction. Whosoever will may partake of the waters of life freely. God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. Those who are condemned are so because they love darkness rather than light—they choose darkness. They of their own choosing love not the truth that they might be saved. Those that choose life choose to follow the Lord Jesus Christ and accept Him as their LORD AND SAVIOR.

11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Baptism is symbolic of our death, burial, and resurrection with Christ. Baptism of infants is unscriptural.
Nowhere in the NT was it practiced.

The JW organization began with the King James Version. The New World Translation was published in 1961 at the time the new translations began to flood the market. Their New World Translation was translated from the Greek texts revised by Wescott and Hort, which they further corrupted to harmonize with their false doctrine.

The Authorized Version is an accurate translation of the Textus Receptus and is the infallible Word of God preserved by God Himself. Praises to Him because His hand was on the translators of the Holy Word of God, which He gave to the English speaking world for the last four centuries.

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Abigail
Why would anyone disagreeing with you or Yamil want to share with you personal information?
I guess if someone wanted someone to further wound them they could.
Is this what being filled with the Holy Spirit is all about? finding something to condemn someone Christ has died for and who is doing their best to live for Him? Or is Jesus somehow too little and not paying enough attention to correct one who belongs to Him and needs to be helped by those who are experts in religion?
Have you somehow forgotten the one who is forgiven much loves much but the one who is forgiven little (I guess because they just didn't do the really bad sins) love little?
By the way if you all belong to Jesus I trust He will deal with you in His time, not mine, and if you don't there is always hope of a sinner coming to repentance and faith.
Bye for the while.

You are in agreement with divorce and remarriage but Scripture is against it.

"Whosoever marrieth her that is put away committeth adultery". Mat 5:32; Mat 19:9; Mar 10:12; Luk 16:18

Your Post
" Abigail,
What on earth are you talking about?
How in the world do think that Paul is saying "Art thou loosed from a wife, seek not a wife" means that he is talking about betrothal?

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Can't you see that Paul is speaking to virgins? Virgins have not come together in marriage but are betrothed in this case, even though Paul uses the word "wife". Paul states that if they marry they have not sinned, but it is better if they do not.

Now concerning **virgins** I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. (1Co 7:25)

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. (1Co 7:26)

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. (1Co 7:27)

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. (1Co 7:28)

Your Post
"Your strong opposition to the biblical grounds for divorce makes me think you may have personal reasons why you are against it.
I have been open about my personal situation on here but you have not been completely forthcoming on your situation. Why would you be afraid to tell matters of a personal nature on here since we are all anonymous on here and nobody in our local area even knows us? It makes me think you are hiding some things that may have a bearing on why you are opposed to divorce, even on biblical grounds."
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My strong opposition to biblical divorce is because there are none. Those who try to make valid reasons for divorce are deceiving themselves because they do not believe the truth—they believe God did not create humanity to be monogamous. I believe the Word of God and have ordered my life accordingly, not the other way around.

When one sees the truth, humanity's pleasure seeking life without regards to God's laws becomes glaringly obvious. Pride is the seat of disobedience. We were created for one purpose—to be conformed to the Image of Jesus Christ and to praise and glorify Him.

Your Post
"I Corinthians 7:10 wrote:
10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Paul also makes it very clear his position on divorce:
I Corinthians 7:39 wrote:
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Till death (not fornication) do us part."
Is seems to me that Paul just approved of a lawful divorce???? "but and if she depart..." I thought Yamil and others said no divorce was lawful...What's Up With This?"
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But if she depart, LET HER REMAIN UNMARRIED, OR BE RECONCILED TO HER HUSBAND, AND LET NOT THE HUSBAND PUT AWAY HIS WIFE..

All of the verses you quote are against divorce—so what are you trying to say? How are you justifying divorce by these Scriptures?