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[Russianwolfe;111017]My faith is totally in the God of the Bible and latter-day scriptures. The same God that spoke from Siniai and from Heaven at the baptism of Christ. The same God who descended from heaven after his resurrection to the people at the temple and taught them his Gospel. The same God who spoke with Moses and Elijah and the God in the cloud on the Mount of Transfiguration, that is the God who I have faith in. The same God who said that we are saved by grace through faith. My works are imperfect and my faith is imperfect, but if I walk in obedience to the God of the scriptures and revelation, then by his grace I will be saved.
Is it now? You have faith in the Divine Being that has been GOD from everlasting and will continue as the ONLY GOD to everlasting? You are ready to take hold of the Biblical premise that Jesus (God) made all things visible and invisible. That would include even the subatomic partials that make up atoms that are the building blocks of even the base elements? Yes I know you give your created god the credit for everything that the Eternal God actually did.. That is why I have said that your God id no different than a Garden Gnome set up in my back yard.. I can ascribe all God's works on it too but would it be God? NO!! Neither is the god made up in the mind of Joseph Smith..
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While those organization you mention are doing good, their judgement will be better than the Christians who give lip service to Christ but do not do the things he has commanded.
Again you deny the scripture:
Heb 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
The works of those Godless organization have no effect on the state of their eternal destiny. Either they come to Jesus for forgiveness or they will be cast into the lake of fire.. There is no middle ground.. Such an idea is again from the fertile imagination of Joseph Smith and has NO, ZERO, support in the Bible.. Not even in 1 Cor 15.
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Since James was writing to members of the church who already knew and undestood the Gospel and were already baptized, then there was no need for him to mention those principles.
Those same people were taught how to treat their neighbors. The parable of the good Samaritan make the commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves is very clear. That was again a commandment something we do and therefore is something a Christian should do, but has nothing to do with salvation, for salvation is NOT OF WORKS therefore no man can boast.
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But Peter on the Day of Pentecost, was talking to people who were not members, told them when their heart were *****ed and they asked what should they do:
I have never spoken against baptism.. It is a Law that a Christian should obey. First it is to simple do do to put off. Then it was commanded by our Lord.. I don't know of any Christian church that denies the ordinance. It is conducted in some form bay all of the sects of the Church. The only question is are works such as baptism required for salvation or it salvation complete in the works of Jesus? The Church teaches that salvation is 100% the work of Jesus (God).. Therefor this p***age to stay true to the Bible that teaches that all who believe should have everlasting life, That all who believe in Him (Jesus) will never die.. must mean that Baptism is given to believers beacuse they have been cleaned by God because of their faith..
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So when necessary, the leaders of the church do tell the unbelievers to be baptized. So much so that you will not find a dry Christian in all of the book of Acts. But it would be ridiculous for James to tell members of the church who are already baptized to be baptized. They have no need to be baptized again. And since he wasn't writing to them to tell them of the higher things of the Gospel but to correct some misconceptions and misunderstandings they had about faith and works, he doesn't mention the temple ordinances or temple sealings because that is not what he is writing them about.
The only problem with Paul telling the new believers to be baptized is that they were no longer nonbelievers. To tell a person to obey the commandments is the proper thing for a Church leader to do. Baptism is a commandment so being disobedient to that command would be sin.. Jesus died in order to forgive those who believe on Him of sin! The thing about your "Higher things" is that they are not even mentioned anywhere in all the scripture.. The only temple is all the Christian Church is the believer:
1 Cor 3:16
Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
The Christian know that God doesn't dwell in temples made with hand:
Acts 7:48
However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands...
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Every letter is not a complete encyclopedia of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The letters are for a specific set of points that the author wanted to address. You have to look at the scriptures as a whole and not cherry pick a verse here and/or a verse there an attempt to create a whole doctrine from it. To do so is a sure path to heresy.
The Gospel of Jesus is not a set of teachings, an authority to act in his name, a list of Laws, and specific ordinances to be preformed. The Gospel is the story of what God did to save mankind.. It is not what we can or even should do for God.. I have shown you how the whole Bible fits together and stays consistent is it's complete message.. I haven't just pulled out p***ages that speak of our sanctification and made them the Gospel in appose to all that p***age that speak to out salvation by grace though faith and out instant justification though the Blood of Jesus.. That is you doing your best to cherry Pick the word.. I have in turn shown you how they work in showing our need for grace, how they bring us to the cross and faith in Jesus for salvation.. You have not shown ant way that the P***age NOT OF WORKS means you must do good works, and salvation come by the acts of the WORKS of obedience.. IHS jim