The following scriptures are (in part) those which are generally relied upon by some who believe in the doctrine of Hell as a place of fire and eternal torment. Let us examine such to see if this be true. We begin with Matt 3:11, 12 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and…
“WE remind you from our previous post entitled, “John’s Baptism” that the baptism of John was not the baptism that is enjoined upon us– baptism into Christ. I remind you that our Lord’s baptism could not have been the baptism unto repentance, which our “Disciple” friends claim; it could not have been the baptism for the remission of sins. That was John’s baptism, as is most unequivocally stated in the Scriptures. Of our Lord it is said, in Him was…
The Stronghold or Gibraltar of the Baptist and Disciple’s “Concerning the next verse (Rom 6:5), which has seemed to so many to strongly emphasize their position respecting the matter of water baptism: “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.” How many “Baptists” and “Disciples” have considered this verse a very Gibraltar for their faith! They state that their baptism into water was their “planting”…
“And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task (the present experience under the dominion of sin, the permission of evil), God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised (that is through experience they might learn the bitter consequences of sin).” Eccl 1:13 The following subject is one which has left many of the Lord’s children both troubled and perplexed, often…
“Many Christians while seeking to hold fast to the Scripture and to be guided by their expression have unconsciously fallen into serious error through not discerning the dispensational changes that came about when the favor to the Jewish nation ended at the death of Christ, and when a new dispensation, a new age under new conditions, was then ushered in. The baptism of John, the baptism to which our dear friends so frequently refer, was never meant for the Christian…
“Despite what is commonly believed and taught by orthodoxy, immersion or baptism (Greek–dipping) in water, as practiced by John the Baptist and afterward by our Lord and his disciples, had a different significance at first among the disciples from what it came to have after the Spirit dispensation was fully opened and its teachings received. John came and his disciples, preaching repentance of sins, and used immersion as a token or sign of the putting away of sin by the…
One Ransom for All “It was necessary [in accordance with God’s will] that man [should] learn obedience—not only to obey, but the importance of obedience. Man must obey not just because he is told to, but also because he wants to. This makes him free—the desire to comply rather than the constraints to comply. God as Creator knew that the available means of learning were instruction, observation, and experience. Man could not learn first by observation, because there was no…
(Matt. 25:14-30) HOW SHALL WE PAY OUR VOWS? This is an important question with all the truly consecrated, and one surely of paramount importance. Let us consider, then, that when we consecrated ourselves fully to the Lord, we thereby signified that we would hold nothing back for self. That consecration included all our possessions, our time, our physical energies and our mental attainments. And it implied the sacrifice of all our former earthly ambitions hopes and aims, so that we…
The following extracts with regards to Matt 13:24-30; 36-43 were taken from various Bible Student materials VERSE 24 “Another parable put Him forth unto them (This parable stands related to the one before, “The Parable of the Sower” The first prepares the way for the other. The first deals with the individual; the second with the church collectively.) Saying, The kingdom of heaven (Practically every parable which our Lord uttered was given to teach something respecting the character of the…
“The system of belief, Our Most Holy Faith, which we call “The Truth,” is made up of little things, of small fragments of information scattered throughout the Bible. The wonderful Divine Plan of the Ages is not found in the Bible as a consecutively connected narrative. If it were, it would be understood by everyone instead of being a profound mystery to all but the church.” This fact is well described in Isaiah: “For precept must be upon precept, precept…