ACU-SIXTY-ONE OBJECTIONS TO THE BAPTIST CHURCH
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Sixty-One Objections to the Baptist Church Will M. Thompson
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SIXTY-ONE OBJECTIONS
TO THE
BAPTIST CHURCH
by WILL M. THOMPSON
SIXTY-ONE OBJECTIONS TO THE
BAPTIST CHURCH
BY
WILL M. THOMPSON P. 0. Box 1078 PAMPA, TEXASTHE NUTSHELL OF AN ASSEMBLY OR SCHOOL OF JESUS CHRIST.
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name [singular] of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Jesus is the HEAD (the only Rabbi) at the Corner stoneor "angle." This is an almost secret place and silent. How would Jesus teach you if a clergy is trying with all its might to silence Jesus?
This is the only pattern for an assembly or School of Christ. Jesus will teach only those who have REQUESTED A holy spirit or A good conscience or consciousness. Without thius, Jesus will not let you READ the Scriptures or HEAR them when they are PREACHED by being READ just once each REST day. 2 Corinthians 3
THE CHURCH PATTERN OF AN APOSTATE CHURCH NEAR YOU
Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World
The Kithera Mysteries (Wrath or Orgy in Paul's warning.
Matthew.11.28.Labor.Heavy.Laden.html
Beyond the commanded and exampled once each week READING or SPEAKING that which is written for our LEARNING religious institutions with a 24/7 lading rather than lifting burdens is fighting a losing battle with Jesus. The driving purpose is to make the Lambs dumb before the slaughter.
The Pattern for the godly Jews in the Old Testament
The godly Jews attended Synagogue once a week and did not go to the Temple for a "worship service." Even when anyone worshipped the sounds of an instrument were never called worship. Worship meant to bow with your face toward the ground or most often FALL ON YOUR FACE in reverence and godly fear. The Holy Convocation was observed on the first and eithth days of yearly festivals for warrior-age males only. This convocation was:
Converted Gentiles were accepted for baptism because they already knew the traditions of the Jews not to offend because:
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.
The Pattern of Jesus
Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up: [Educted]
and, as his custom was, [The one-piece pattern proposed by Thomas Campbell]
he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, [Once each week education only]
and stood up for to READ.
The Pattern of Paul
Acts 13:15 And after the READING of the law and the prophets
the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying,
Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation [comfort] for the people, say on.
The only Pattern for the Church of Christ (if you can find one)
Eph. 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [Educated in the Ekklesia] the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief [only Rabbi] corner stone; [At silent and secret places]
Eph. 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph. 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the spirit.
If you led a "worship team" into the Holy or Most Holy place, you would be instantly executed. I am shocked that God doesn't strike the prophesied end-times church with a Rod of Iron-The Spirit of His Mouth.
Why they murdered Jesus then and why the Theologins hear "A" spirit and reject Father and Son as unable to ANTICIPATE our culture.
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
because they knew him not,
nor yet the VOICES of the PROPHETS
which are READ every sabbath day, [Once each week by vocational elders]
they have fulfilled them in condemning him
Just continue with what Jude defined as FORE ORDAINED: the tiny flock of Lost Spirits--not of this world--will, as the result of obedience in baptism--be taught by Jesus who said that My WORD is SPIRIT--by being able to Read BLACK text on BROWN Paper (2.Cor 3)
Matt. 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father:
and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father;
neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,
and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Matt. 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and LEARN OF ME;
for I am meek and lowly in heart:
and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matt. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
REST as Sabbath or the Greek PAUO demands STOP the speaking, singing, playing an instrument, acting or PAY TO PLAY.
THE PATTERN OF HOLY SCRIPTURE WHICH IS NEITHER A CUTE NARRATIVE NOR A LOVE LETTER:
Rick Atchley and others confessed that it would take a decade to soften up the frogs for boiling. Don't fret: Jesus was sent to seek and rescue a tiny band of Lost Spirits. They are IN the world but not OF this World.
Gal. 2:4 And that because of false brethren
unawares brought in,
who came in privily to spy out our liberty
which we have in Christ Jesus,
that they might bring us into bondage:
Gal. 2:5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour;
that the TRUTH of the GOSPEL might continue with you.
Gal. 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly
according to the TRUTH of the GOSPEL,
I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew,
livest after the manner of Gentiles,
and not as do the Jews,
why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Eph. 1:13 In whom ye also trusted,
after that ye heard the WORD of TRUTH,
the GOSPEL of your salvation:
in whom also after that ye BELIEVED
ye were sealed with THAT holy Spirit of promise,
He that believeth shall be saved: believeth means to comply
Antiph. 5 50 Why, quite apart from the torture employed,
those who consistently keep to one statement about one set of facts
[logous] are more to be trusted than those who contradictthemselves.
logous legontes pistoteroi to be trusted or believed: I. [select] of persons, faithful, trusty, “trustworthy, worthy of credit,
pledge, security, warrant, “to p. tēs alētheias
pist-euō COMPLY, hōs oukh hupeixōn oude pisteusōn legeis; S.OT625, cf. 646 ; opp. apisteō, Id.Tr.1228. S.Aj.371,Jesus said that God HIDES from the wise: they are SOPHISTS meaning Rhetoricians, Singers, Instrument Players and gender-abandoned as in
http://www.pineycom.com/Romans.1.html
PEOPLE WHO CHANGE THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT WILL GLADLY LEAD YOU ON THE ROAD, AS WITH MUSICIANS ETAL, ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. That is why they were unleashed along with Apollyon and his adulterous worship team.
THE ONE PIECE PATTERN IS ABSOLUTELY AND CLEARLY DEFINED FOR ANYONE ABLE TO READ.
boulēma purpose, Gorg.Hel.6 (pl.), Ar.Av.993, Isoc.3.15, D.18.49 (pl.); intent, “tou nomothetou” Pl.Lg.769d, 802c (pl.), al.; to b. tēs kriseōs intention to judge, Id.Phlb.41e: pl., “boulēmasi Moirēs”
THE SCRIPTURE WHICH GOD WILL NEVER ALLOW THEOLOGIANS TO READ:3. intention of a testator, BGU 361ii 23 (ii A. D.): hence, will, testament, POxy.907.1 (iii A. D.), PLips. 29.7 (iii A. D.).
II. express will, consent, “tēs sugklētou” [FOR THE ASSEMBLY] Plb.6.15.4.
sugklētou” [FOR THE ASSEMBLY II. s. ekklēsia at Athens, an assembly specially summoned
ekklēsia 3. = psēphisma, anagignōskomenēs e. Philostr.VS2.1.11.
THE ONLY PATTERN anagignōskō , later anagi_nōskō : of written characters, know them again, and so, read, first in Pi.O.10(11).1, cf. Ar.Eq.118, 1065, Th.3.49, And.1.47, etc. (never in Trag.); anagnōsetai (sc. ho grammateus)
“hoi anagignōskontes” students, Plu.Alex. 1, ta biblia ta anegnōsmena books read aloud, hence, published, opp. ta anekdota,
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [EDUCATED BY] the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief [Only Rabbi] corner stone; [at secret and silent places]
Eph. 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together GROWETH unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph. 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
The meaning of the HOUSE of God is defined to EXCLUDE "fathers and mothers" from outside.Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
because they knew him not,
nor yet the VOICES of the PROPHETS
which are READ every sabbath day,
they have fulfilled them in condemning him
“doctrinae,” A. Zeal for any one; good-will, affection, attachment, devotion, favor, kindness, pabulum studii atque doctrinae,
(β). A place for study, a study, school (late Lat.): “philosophum (se egit) in omnibus studiis, templis, locis,”
Ov. Pont. 4.13
"Although the sermon was not an essential part of the synagogue service, the translation and explanation of the Scripture lesson was a step in the direction of a preaching service. There is evidence that an exposition of the lesson formed a part of the Sabbath afternoon service.
In earliest times the sermon seems to have been connected with the reading from the Prophets.
Anyone able to instruct might be asked to preach (Acts 13:15).
The preacher spoke from a sitting position on an elevated place (Luke 4:20). (feiffer, Charles F., Between the Testaments, p. 63 Baker Book House).
Acts 8:28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.Clement of Rome (I Corinthians 45) tells his readers to search the Scriptures for the truthful expressions of the Holy Ghost. St. Irenæus (Against Heresies ...
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath
in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
Col. 4:16 And when this epistle is read among you,
cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans;
and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
1 Clem 45:2 Ye have searched the scriptures, which are true, which were given through the Holy Ghost;
"The word that is employed for this "anaginosko, anagnosis)
is the technical term for the cultic reading aloud of the Old Testament in the synagogue.
By applying this terminology to the reading of his own epistles
he not only ascribes the same authority to the apostolic word as to the Old Testament writings...
he also combines a quotation from the Old Testament with a word of Jesus and introduces the whole with the familiar formula: 'for the Scripture says.'" (Ridderbos, Hermon, Paul, P. 483 an Outline of His Theo., Eerdmans)
Suneimi A.ibo) go or come together, assemble (eimi 3. attend, associate with, a teacher, X.Mem.1.2.8,24, etc.; also of the teacher, Id.Cyr.3.1.14, Pl.Tht.151a, etc.; of a fellowpupil, “emoi sunōn pote peri mathēmata” hoi sunontes followers, partisans, associates, disciples, Antipho 5.68, Pl.Ap.25e, Tht.168a,
math-ēma , atos, to, (mathein) A.that which is learnt, lesson, “ta pathēmata mathēmata”
A Disciple of Christ is a STUDENT and can never think about trying to make love or war against the Head Librarian or sing to Him.
Stŭdĭōsus , a, um, adj. studium, I.eager, zealous, assiduous, anxious after any thing, fond or studious of any thing.OCCUPIED tith
omnium doctrinarum, and not musices,
sermo I.a speaking or talking with any one; talk, conversation, discourse, the conversing with you by letter, 1. Literary conversation, discourse, disputation, discussion studiose investigare, 2. Ordinary speech, speaking, talking, the language of conversation (opp. contentio):
Of prose as opposed to poetry: “comoedia ...
Heb. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
inquīro , sīvi, sītum, 3, v. a. in-quaero, I.to seek after, search for, inquire into any thing
Origin the creator, or definition of verbum commands, comissions [john 10:18]
D. In eccl. Lat. as a translation of logos: The Regulative Principle opposite to rhetoric, personal experiences or opinions, singing, playing instruments especially in a place considered holyIT JUST DOESN'T MATTER THAT ACU TEACHES BAPTIST THEOLOGY.
I WILL USE THIS FORMAT AND ADD SOME VERY CLEAR FACTS THAT THE CHURCH OF CHRIST BEGAN ONLY AFTER JESUS HAD TAKEN HIS "BLOOD" INTO THE TABERNACLE IN HEAVEN.
THE GLORIFIED JESUS ASSUMED THE STATE OF "HOLY OR WHOLLY SPIRIT" AND RETURNED ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST AND POURED OUT WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR: THIS WAS WIND (SPIRIT) AND FIRE.
The.Church.of.Christ.in.Prophecy.html
The.Ekklesia.A.Church.of.Christ.html
Luke.17.Kingdom.Not.Observation.html
Rick.Atchley.The.Kingdom.of.God.html
Church of Christ the historical name: we honor the HEAD and only Teacher.
SPIRIT is figurative or a Parable to hide truth from the wise, sophists meaning speakers, singers, instrument players or anything beyond the MASCULINE SPEAK or READ that which is written for our LEARNING.
See Chapter 28 and the speaking in tongues connection
See Isaiah 30, Molech and Musical Punishment
See Isaiah 32 and the Vileness of musical worship which perverts
Isaiah.55.Word.Spirit.html
SABBATH among the Jews was never a day of WORSHIP: Sabbath means REST and work outlaws anything you can do with your own hands or WORDS. Synagogue held in isolated settlements to keep people away from Jerusalem was to READ and DISCUSS
only whatever had been delivered from God.
ONLY warrior age males were commanded to assemble for the three MILITARY MUSTERS or festivals. The Holy Convocations were held on the FIRST and LAST days.
Romans 15 silences any self-pleasure including rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or scenic acts. Then the PATTERN was to use ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH to speak that which was WRITTEN for our LEARNING.
Isaiah.58.html
Isaiah 40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
because the SPIRIT of the LORD bloweth upon it:
surely the people is grass.Isaiah 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
Isaiah 40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings,
but the WORD of our God shall stand for ever.
lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid;
say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!Isaiah 40:10 Behold, the LORD-GOD will come with strong HAND,
bracchĭum Of the movement of the arms in speaking:
and his ARM shall rule for him: behold,
his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Zech. 6:12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
6780. jAmRx tsemach, tseh´-makh; from 6779; a sprout (usually concrete), literal or figurative:—branch, bud, that which (where) grew (upon), spring(-ing).
6779. jAmDx tsamach, tsaw-makh´; a primitive root; to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative):—bear, bring forth, (cause to, make to) bud (forth), (cause to, make to) grow (again, up), (cause to) spring (forth, up).
Isaiah 40:11 He shall FEED his flock like a shepherd:
he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom,
and shall gently lead those that are with young.
--pastor Esp., of Christ: “Ego sum pastor bonus,” Vulg. Johan. 10, 11: “eduxit de mortuis Pastorem magnum,” id. Heb. 13, 20; cf. 1 Pet. 2, 25; 5, 4. poimena laōn, 2. in LXX and NT, pastor, teacher, Je. 2.8, Ep.Eph.4.11, etc.
Luke 3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying,
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Mark 1:2 As it is written in the prophets,
Behold, I send my messenger before thy face,
which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Mark 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mark 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins
THE JEWISH CIVIL-MILITARY-CLERGY WAS HOSTILE TO GOD AND HIS WORD OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE DEFINED
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
because they knew him not,
nor yet the voices of the prophets
which are read every sabbath day,
they have fulfilled them in condemning himHOWEVER, THE GODLY JEWS WERE ALREADY PREPARED FOR SALVATION AFTER THE IGNORANT RULERS ARE DEPOSED.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Is. 32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus;
Is. 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind,
and a covert from the tempest;
as rivers of water in a dry place,
as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
The Kingdom does not come with religious observations: the twos and threes are invited to escape the camp or city and come OUTSIDE to Rest and Learn of Men. That defines the CENI or the one-piece pattern to escape the spiritual terrorism
THE CHURCH IS A SAFE HOUSE OR A PLACE TO HIDE:
Abs-condo to put away, conceal carefully, hide, secrete (the access. idea of a careful concealmen
B. In gen., to make invisible, to cover: “fluvium et campos caede,” BESIDES STILL WATERS.
TO HIDE FROM THE:
Vĕnĭo , “mercator venit huc ad ludos,” id. Cist. 1, 3, 9: “parasitus modo venerat aurum petere,” Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 18: “non nos Libycos populare penates Venimus,” Verg. A. 1, 528.
Mŏdus , 2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: “vocum,” Cic. Div. 2, 3, 9: “musici,” Quint. 1, 10, 14: “lyrici,” Ov. H. 15, 6: “fidibus Latinis Thebanos aptare modos,” “flebilibus modis concinere,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106: saltare ad tibicinis modos, to the music or sound of the flute, Liv. 7, 2: “ flēbĭlis daemones flebilius ululant,
Mercātor a trader, merchant, esp. a wholesale dealerA PLACE TO ESCAPE FROM:
PERFORMING
lūdus hoc praetore ludos Apollini faciente, 2. Stage-play Facta “poëma,” to compose, id. Pis. 29, 70: “carmina, Apollinem) concordant sing and play]” Juv. 7, 28: “versus,” id. 7, 38: “sermonem,” f. “litteram,”
Tempestas, a time, season, period, weather 2. A storm, shower, i. e. a throng, multitude, etc.: “querelarum,” Cic. Pis. 36, 89: “turbida telorum,” Verg. A. 12, 284;A PLACE TO HIDE: CHURCH IS A SAFE HOUSE TO REST
Clāmōsus “theatri turba actors
SO THAT disciples can attend: schŏla (scŏla ), ae, f., = skholē (spare time, leisure; II.that in which leisure is employed, learned discussion, disputation, lecture
Heb. 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
2Pet. 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
2Pet. 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pet. 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
Cēlo , to hide something from one, to keep secret, to conceal;IT IS A SHADY PLACE IS THE OPPOSITE OF A THEATER FOR HOLY ENTERTAINMENT.
hospĭtālis , e, adj. hospes, I. of or relating to a guest or host, hospitable
a. Apartments for guests, guest-chambers, Vitr. 6, 10.—
Umbra 4. A shade, shady place, that which gives a shade or shadow (as a tree, house, tent,
“studia in umbrā educata,” to bring up, rear, foster, train, educate:
in the closet, study, Tac. A. 14, 53; cf.: “rhetorica,” i. e. the rhetorician's school, Juv. 7, 173
stŭdĭum I. a busying one's self about or application to a thing; assiduity, zeal, eagerness, fondness, inclination, desire, exertion, endeavor, study (b). A place for study, a study, school (late Lat.): “philosophum (se egit) in omnibus studiis, templis, locis,”
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
ēdŭco , , I. to bring up a child physically or mentally, to rear, to educate
to bring up, rear, foster, train, educate:
John 4.10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."Tac. Ann. 14.53 For myself, what other recompense had I for your munificence, than a culture nursed, so to speak, in the shade of retirement, and to which a glory attaches itself, because I thus seem to have helped on the early training of your youth, an ample reward for the service.
Matthew 16.18 I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly,
and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
aedĭfĭco II. Fig., to build up, establish: “rem publicam,” Cic. Fam. 9, 2.—And (eccl.) in a religious sense, to build up, instruct, edify.
ekklēsian II. in LXX, the Jewish congregation, De. 31.30,al. 2. in NT, the Church, as a body of Christians, Ev.Matt. 16.18, 1 Ep.Cor.11.22 ; “hē kat' oikon tinos e.” Ep.Rom.16.5 ; as a building,
ALL OF THIS PROVES--TIME IS SHORT--THAT NO SCHOOL OF "THEOLOGY" WHICH IS DEFINED AS MYTH FROM PEOPLE WHO "HEAR" SPIRITS ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
JESUS WAS JUST "LYING" SAYS THEOLOGIANS WHEN HE SAID AND CHRISTIANS WILL BELIEVE.
John 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you:
but he that sent me is true;
and I SPEAK to the world those things which I have HEARD of him.
John 8:27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
then shall ye know that I am he,
and that I do nothing of myself;
but as my Father hath taught me,
I speak these things.
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me:
the Father hath not left me alone;
for I DO always those things that PLEASE him.
John 8:30 As he spake these WORDS, many believed on him.
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
IF ye continue in MY WORD, THEN are ye my disciples indeed;MYLES WERNTZ WAS HIRED AMONG ONCE-CHURCH OF CHRIST THEOLOGIANS WHO HAVE BEEN ABANDONED
John 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed;
but ye seek to kill me, because my WORD hath no place in you.
John 8:38 I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
and ye DO that which ye have seen with your father.
NO ONE LIVING OFF CLAIMING TO BE NEEDED TO ENHANCE GODS' WORD AND WORK HAS KNOWN WHAT FOLLOWS AND THEREFORE SPIRITUAL WARFARE WHICH TURNS VIOLENT WHEN MEN CONFISCATE CONGREGATIONS AND WHOLE UNIVERSITIES. THAT IS WHAT GOD PROMISED THEY WOULD DO C.2000 PERHAPS THE FINAL JUBILEE.
John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Devil Do: poiētai 4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn
Epos joined with muthos, 1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.
2. fiction (opp. logos, historic truth), THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLEDevil Do: LATIN: făcĭo , to make in all senses, to do, perform, accomplish, prepare, produce, bring to pass, cause, effect, create, commit, perpetrate, form, fashion, operor Lying Wonder, “poëma,” to compose, id. Pis. 29, 70: “carmina,” Juv. 7, 28: “versus,” id. 7, 38: “sermonem,” Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf. “litteram,” id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: ludos, to celebrate, exhibit, admirationem alicujus rei alicui,” to excite [the Laded Burden],Hdt. 1.23 Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing [Lying Wonders] that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin. This Arion was a lyre-player second to none in that age; he was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb1 which he afterwards taught at Corinth.
1 The dithyramb was a kind of dance-music particularly associated with the cult of Dionysus.
Devil Do: carmen
I.a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto). note, sound, both vocal and instrumental “also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,” Ov. M. 11, 317; cf. “vocum,” id. ib. 12, 157: “per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis
“barbaricum,” id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara: The Moher o Harlots in John 17 “Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,
Devil Do: Commercium sermonis,” 7 In mercant. lang., to practise, exercise, follow any trade or profession: 8. In relig. lang., like the Gr. rhezein, to perform or celebrate a religious rite; to offer sacrifice, make an offering, to sacrifice:
Devil Do: Mousa II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695
“Kanakhan .Clanging Brass
Theias as many as made them hope by divinations, Madness caused by Ritual
worship as divine, “Puthagoran [Of the Cosmos, the Ecumenical, Kingdom of the Devil."
Antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.); PLAYING THE LYRE
“Aiakō moisan pherein”I. bear or carry a load, A Laded BurdenJESUS WAS SENT FOR A TINY BAND OF LOST SPIRITS: THEY ARE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD. HIS WAY WHICH IS CALLED SECTARIAN, IS SUCH A NARROW ROAD AND CONFLICTED GATE THAT YOU WILL NEVER FIND IT. THAT'S FINE: THAT'S WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO.
The writer of these questions and objections has engaged in fifty-eight public debates during his minis- terial life. He has met the representatives of various re- ligious faiths, viz., Methodist, Baptist, Adventist, Holiness, Russellites, Dunkard, et al. He has had more debates with Baptists than any other faith. Most of these have been Missionary Baptist of the Non-Convention stripe. Mr. Ben M. Bogard is considered by Brother Thompson as being the ·most outstanding debater of this faith whom he has met six times.The objections herein filed were offered in 1913 when ·the writer met W. J. Pinkerton in their second debate which lasted seven days and was conducted near Spauld- ing, Oklahoma. (Hughes County) This was their final debate as W. J. Pinkerton ceased to preach for the Bap-
tists after this debate. Ten months later he obeyed the gospel, and then preached the truth.
With the hope that many others may see the light of truth and come out of the Baptist Church into the King- dom of the Lord, these objections and questions are sent forth.
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1. I object to the Baptist Church because it teaches that the church was established on the mountain of Mark 8, and Matthew 10,
This position makes the oath of God untrue. Heb. 6: 18, "That because he could swear by no greater he swear by himself." In the 18th verse Paul shows that there are two things that are immutable, the promise of God and his oath. In 1 Chron. 17:11, 12 there is this promise: "And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, and I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will es- tablish his kingdom. He shall build me an house, and I will establish his throne forever."
GOD'S OATH. Psa. 182:11, "The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not tum from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I sit upon thy throne." ·
GOD'S PROMISE AND OATH FULFILLED IN ACTS 2:29-33. "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, · and his sepulchre is with us unto this day . Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear."
Thus the Apostle Peter says God's oath was fulfilled on Pentecost. I insist that one cannot believe the oath of God concerning the establishment of the kingdom or church and believe Baptist doctrine.
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2. I object to the Baptist Church because they flatly contradict the language of Christ in Matt. 16:18 where Jesus says, "Upon this rock I will build my church."
Baptists say it had already been established. Their turn upon this passage is that the phrase, "I will build," means to embellish or enlarge. There is no such form to the original word oikodomeso as used here. This form of the Greek word occurs but three times in the New Testa- ment and each time it means to found. Mr. Thayer in answer to an inquiry on this word said it does not mean to embellish or enlarge, but it means to found. Likewise Gross Alexander and Shaller Matthews corroborate Thay- er on this word. They were the three best Greek authori- ties of their day. Baptists are simply wrong again.
3. Baptists teach that Judas Iscariot was a devil from the beginning, and yet they claim that the church was es- tablished on the mountain of Mark 3 and Matthew 10, and that Judas was one of the charter members of the church. They accuse the Lord of selecting a devil as one of his apostles, and giving to him the same power in the execution of the limited commission that he gave to the other apostles.
The Bible no where says he was a devil from the be- ginning, but the Bible does say that he fell by trans- gression, Acts 1:25. So they are off the track again.
4. Baptists teach that the church was established be- fore Christ became head of the church. Col. 1:18, "He is the head of the body the church." Eph. 1:19-23 shows that Christ became head when he ascended and was seated at God's right hand. I insist that if the church was estab- lished before the cross, as Baptists teach, then they have a body or a church without a head.
5. Baptists teach that the church was established be- fore Christ gave himself for it. Paul declares that Christ gave himself for the church, Eph. 5:25,26. If it was es- tablished before his death, as Baptists teach, it was established before Christ gave himself for it and before
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he purchased it with his blood. If there was a church before thi s time it was not the Lord's, for his church was purchased with his blood. Baptists are wrong here as they are on most every thing.
6. It teaches that the church was composed of un- converted material. They teach the church established during the personal ministry of Christ on the earth. In ?,1:att. 18:3, Jesus speaking to these church members, a:1 Bapti sts would have us believe, said: "Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little child- ren , ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Bap- tists teach the se people were already in the kingd om. Why can't they see they are wrong?
7. They teach that the church was established at a time when the apostles could not tell that Jesus was the Christ. Matt. 16:20. They claim the church was es- tablished before Matt . 16:18 was uttered. Fine group of church members, were they not, when they couldn't tell that Jesus was the Christ? What think ye of such doc- trine?
8. By teaching that the church was established dur- ing the personal ministry of Christ they have it estab- lished under the limited commission. They could not go to the Gentiles nor Samaritans. Read Mk. 3:13, 14 and Matt. 10:5. Yet under this commission Christ told them to preach the kingdom was at hand.
9. It teach es the church established without recon- ciliation unto God. In Eph. 2:14-16, Paul tells us that Christ died to make in himself of two one new man, and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body. If the church was established behind the cross then I must in- sist that it was before either Jew or Gentile could bn reconciled unto God in the one body which is the church.
10. Baptists teach that the church was established lJe- fore the Holy Spirit was given, John 7:38, 39; 14:15-17. Therefo re, the y have a body or church without the Spirit in it. J ames said , " For a s the body without the spirit is
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dead, so faith without works is dead also." (Jas. 2:26) So if they could locate the church behind the cross it would be a dead body or a dead churcn. That couldn't be anything but the Baptist Church.
11. They teach that the church was established under the law of Moses for it was not taken away until Christ nailed it to the cross, Eph. 2:14-16, Col. 2:14-17. They thereby make the church of Christ an Old Testament in- stitution instead of a New Testament organization. They become guilty of doing the very thing that the Lord said not do: They put a new patch on the old garment, and are guilty of pouring new wine into old bottles. Matt. 9:16-17.
12. I object to the Baptist Church because the Lord never promised to establish any kind of Baptist Church.
The Lord only promised to establish his church, Matt. 16:18. The church of Christ was established on the East- ern Continent, and the Baptist Church was established on the Western Continent. Hence they are wrong on time and place, and the kind that was to be established.
13. I object to the Baptist Church because neither the founder nor the head of the New Testament Church was a Baptist in the modern sense.
Baptists now teach that one cannot be a Baptist un- less baptized by a Baptist preacher. This knocks out John the Baptist for he was not baptized. So John couldn't pos- sibly be a member of the Baptist Church. Since John bap- tized the Lord, and since John was not a member of the Baptist Church, therefore the Lord is not a member of the Baptist Church; since John baptized the apostles, neither John, Christ, nor the apostles are in the Baptist Church. Do you want to be a member of a church that neither the Lord nor the apostles are in?
I read in the New Testament of "John the Baptist," and this means John the only Baptist, Matt. 3:1, 2. Since John said, "I must decrease but he must increase," it follow s scr ipturally and logically the r e are no Baptists
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now by divine authority, (John 3:30)
14. I object to the Baptist Church because it has anunscriptural name. No where within the lids of the Bible can you find a Baptist Church of any stripe or type mentioned.
Why be a member of a church that God's Word knows nothing about? Why not be a member of the · church of Christ, the church of the New Testament? Read Matt. 16:18; Rom. 16:16; Acts 20:28; Eph. 5:25, 26.
15. I object to the Baptist Church because it has a human creed. They have the Philadelphia Confession of Faith, and Pendleton's Church Manual, also Hiscox's Manual. The church of the Lord is governed by the New Testament which is the perfect law of liberty. Jas. 1:25.
The WORLD SECT are OF the World and Jesus does not pray for them. They are the masses of people and are ECUMENICAL. Ecumenical does not mean godly and tolerant but the kingdom of Satan who is the Kosmokrator. Apollo, Abbadon or Apollon are names of the STARS or planets is the leader of the MUSES. In Revelation 18 the craftsmen, singers and instrument players are called SORCERERS. John said that they HAD once deceived the whole world and they will be CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
Acts 19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not,
but spake evil of THAT WAY before the multitude,
he departed from them,
and separated the disciples, [ mathētas]
disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
THAT WAY HODOS 3. method, system,Id.Sph.218d, Arist.APr.53a2, al.; “hodō” methodically, systematically,Pl.R.533b, Stoic.2.39, etc. ; so “kath' hodon” Pl.R.435a ; “tēn dia tou stoikheiou ho. ekhōn egraphen” Id.Tht.208b (cf. “diexodon” 208a).
4. of the Christian Faith and its followers,Act.Ap.9.2, 22.4, 24.14.
The WAY is the METHOD is the SYSTEM is the PATTERN is the PARADEIGMA of God--not the NEW one. The METHOD
Method-os , hē, (meta, hodos)
II. pursuit of knowledge, investigation, Pl.Sph.218d, 235c, al.; m. poieisthai to pursue one's inquiry, ib.243d; “en tē prōtē m.” Arist.Pol.1289a26: hence, treatise, Dam.Pr.451.2. mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, Pl.Phdr.270c, Arist.EN1129a6, Pol.1252a18, etc.; “hē dialektikē m.” Pl.R.533c,
Plat. Soph. 218d Theaetetus, this is my advice to ourselves, since we think the family of sophists is troublesome and hard to catch, that we first practise the method of hunting in something easier, unless you perhaps have some simpler way to suggest. Then shall we take some lesser thing and try to use it as a PATTERN for the greater?
Paradeig-ma A.pattern, model: of an architect's model.
of the divine exemplars after which earthly things are made, “en ouranō isōs p. anakeitai” Pl.R.592b;
2. precedent, example, “paradeigmata labein para tinos”
3. lesson, warning, “ekhontes paradeigmata tōn ekei Hellēnōn” Th.6.77;
4. argument, proof from example, Th.1.2, etc., cf. Arist.APr.68b38, Rh.1356b3,
including parabolē and logos, Arist.Rh.1393a 27.
II. foil, contrast,
Anakeimai or Anathema is YOUR SELF-WILL to offer yourself, rhetoric, singing, making music.
anakeimai A.to be laid up as a votive offering in the temple, to be dedicated, “krētēres hoi . . hex khruseoi anakeatai” b. to be set up as a statue in public,
II. pan or panta anakeitai es tina everything is referred to a person, depends on his will, Hdt.1.97, 3.31
Anatithēmi , II. set up as a votive gift, dedicate, “tini ti” Hes.Op.658, Pi.O.3.30, Hdt.2.159,7.54, Ar.Pl.1089, etc.; “Rhēneian anethēke tō Apollōni” Th.1.13; “anathēma anatithenai” Hdt.1.53, 2.182; “a. ti es Delphous”
Assuredly Not. After years of preparation with the hidden agenda of replacing the WORD with Rhetoric and Music, the final MARK of Instrumental Music has been IMPOSED. The BEAST word speaks of a kind of person: in Revelaton the Beast is the sudden "New Style of Musiic and Satyric Drama. Rubel Shelly is still in fellowship with WOODMONT who have taken the MARK of the BEAST which is defined (for disciples) as a New Style of Music or Satyric Drama. This is the real or virtual sexual breakdown visible by most rhetoric and singing boys and girls.
When he and others want to FELLOWSHIP with what Scripture condens, they really mean "We need YOUR church for the Instrumental Sect." Only "foolish" people would have the decencey to leave and build theiir own HOUSE build by human hands in which GOD does not dwell.
Jesus was sent to seek and save a tiny band of LOST SPIRITS: He and they are IN the World but not OF this world. Jesus said that He didn't pray for the World, Kosmos, Ecumenical or the Kingdom of the Devil making war against the Kingdom of God. The call ore election is to GO into all of the world and Preach the Word, Logos, Regulative principle excluding rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or acting.
This is a FACT marking those who HEAR the invitation because they are, like Jesus "From Above" and those from BENEATH or Tartarus will--still-cast you out of the Ekklesia of Christ if you do NOT fellowship those of the BIG FELLOWSHIIP who will never accept you if you simply state the Types, Prophecy, Example of Jesus, Direct command for salvation.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent,prāvus , a, um, adj. cf. Sanscr. prahva, crooked, I. crooked, not straight, distorted, misshapen, deformed (opp. rectus; class.). faithless
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 [A] Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:39 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
Ad-vŏco To give consolation, to console (in imitation of the Gr paraka^leōActs 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort,
Paraka^leō 3. invite, “epi daita” E.Ba.1247; eis (v.l. epi）“ thēran” X.Cyr.4.6.3; epi to bēma p. invite him to mount the tribune, Aeschin.3.72.
Xen. Cyrop. 4.6.3 For he who was my son, my only son, a beautiful and brave young man, Sire, and one who loved me and paid me the filial reverence that would make a father happy—1 him this present king— when the old king, the father of the present ruler, invited my son to his court purposing to give him his daughter in marriage—and I let him go
saying, SAVE (conservo), yourselves from this untoward generation. [The Viper Race]
per-verto (pervorto A. To overthrow, subvert; to destroy, ruin, undo, corrupt: “cito homo pervorti potest,
perverse, irregular, improper, wrong, vicious, bad (syn.: improbus, malus, nequam).
16. The Baptist Church is unscriptural in Organiza- tion. They have one man as pastor over the church, and sometimes as many as four churches have the same pastor.
The word "pastor" in the singular is not one time used in the New Testament. It is always in the plural, as in Eph. 4:11. The New Testament Church is governed by a plurality of elders, pastors, bishops, or overseers to each congregation. This is fully set forth in Acts 14:23, 20:17, 28, Phil. 1:1, Acts 15:2, 11:30. We can readily see that they are out of joint on organization.
17. It uses unscriptural language, such as: Join the church, get religion, etc. Where in all of the Bible can you find the expression, "join the church," or, "get reli- g ion ? " The Lord adds to the church such as should be saved, Acts 2:47. So you don't join the church of Christ. You obey the gospel and the Lord adds you to the church and that is his church. Religion is not something you get, but something you do, per Jas. 1:27.
18. It teaches that salvation comes in answer to the prayers of a sinner.
They urge the sinner to pray for salvation, and sometimes the "radio ranters" ask the sinner to kneel
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right down by the radio and pray through. There is not one example in all the New Testament where any gospel preacher ever told sinners to act like this. They were told to obey the gospel, not pray through. Acts 22:16, 10:46-48, and Acts 8, abundantly demonstrate this point to be true. On the other hand, the Lord hears not the prayer of sinners, John 9:31. If you turn away your ear from hearing the word of God your prayer is an abomin- ation unto God according to Proverbs 28:9. Men when they pray must lift up holy hands without wrath or doubting, 1 Tim. 2:8. An alien sinner can't do this.
19. It teaches repentance without Christ. Baptists teach that first you believe in God, then repent, and af- terwards believe in Christ. This being true then they have repentance without faith in Christ. They teach that because repentance is mentioned before faith in some instances in the Bible that the order of mention is there- fore the order of occurrence in the plan of salvation. But they will not adopt the same line of reasoning when they come to such passages as Mark 16:16, and Acts 2:38, and Acts 22:16. If the order of mention is the order of occur- rence then bapti sm is mentioned in each of these citations before salvation or remission of sins. Why will they refuse to take their own line of reasoning when they read these passages? What proves any thing for Baptists proves too much for them as you can readily see.
20. Baptist teaching on repentance teaches an up- roar in heaven.
Angels rejoice when sinners repent, Lk. 15:7-10. But without faith it is impossible to please God, Heb. 11:6. Their doctrine has the Lord displeased and the angels happy at the same time, and therefore creates an uproar in heaven. When you teach faith before repentance then God and the angels are pleased or happy, and therefore you have harmony in heaven. There is no one doctrine that contradicts the truth more than Baptist doctrine, and it contradicts itself repeatedly.
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21. They teach people to confess that they feel like God for Christ's sake has pardoned their sins. They do not confess Christ in this kind of confession, but confess their feelings. The New Testament teaches that we must confess Christ, and that this confession is unto salvation. Matt. 10:32, Acts 8:37, and Rom. 10:9, 10. We can see that they are wrong on alm·ost every thing.
22. I object to the Baptists again because they vote on the reception of members.
They make the church a democracy instead of a body governed by eldership rule, Heb. 13:7, 17. Where in all of the New Testament do you find people relating an ex- perience and then the church taking a vote to determine whether or not one is a proper subject for baptism? It isn't in the word of God. This belongs to the realm of traditions which are of men. What church voted on the eunuch? Acts 8:26-39. What church voted on ~aul? Acts 22:16. It belongs in the realm of tradition, Matt. 15:9.
23. I object to the Baptist Church because it teaches baptism to be a non-essential act in man's salvation, yet Jesus taught the exact opposite. Mark 16:16, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Baptists say, "He that believeth is saved and can go to heaven without being baptized."
The word and means plus, not minus.
Baptists: Belief minus baptism equals salvation.The Bible: Belief plus baptism equals salvation.
Can't you see the difference?
24. Baptists bury live people.
They teach that man is quickened or made spirituallyalive before baptism, and then they teach that baptism is a burial and cite the following scriptures to prove this: Rom. 6:3-5 and Col. 2:12. Hence, according to their own admission they are guilty of burying live people. Dead people are the kind that should be buried.
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25. They teach that a child of God cannot so act after conversion that he could ever go to hell.
This is the doctrine that we often refer to as "the impossibility of apostasy." They teach that before con- version everything that you do is a sin, but after conver- sion no sin will keep you out of heaven. Before conversion if you go to church you sin, after conversion if you beat your debts you go to heaven. Before conversion tell the truth you sin, after conversion tell a lie and it will not keep you out of heaven. Before conversion love your wife you sin, after conversion love everybody's wife and go on to heaven.
Paul said, "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall," 1 Cor. 10:12. Again, "Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in depart- ing from the living God," Heb. 3:12. 1 Tim. 4:1, "The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils." Peter said, "Cursed children which have forsaken the right way," 2 Pet. 2:14, 15. Jesus said, "Except ye be born of water and the Spirit you can- not enter into the kingdom," John 3:5. Further: "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them that do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." Matt. 13:41. Do these scriptures sound like a child of God could fall from grace?
I charge that this is the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes. The Nicolaitanes were antinomian in doctrine according to Hastings Bible Dictionary and the International Encyclo- pedia. Mr. Webster says "antinominanism" is the doctrine of justification by faith only and thereafter release from all moral law. This is exactly what Baptists teach. God says through the Apostle John, "I hate the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes," Rev. 2:15. This being true, and it is, then God hates the doctrine of the impossibility of apos-
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tasy. -This is strong language, but it is Bible language. Better give up this false doctrine if you are holding to it, my friend, and accept the truth of God.
26. I object to the Baptist teaching and practice on communion, or the Lord's Supper. They hold to the doc- trine of close communion. No one but a Baptist can eat wi t h them. Th ey claim that the Methodists, Presbyteri a ns, and others are children of God, but they won't let them eat with them. They are good enough to go to heaven but not good enough for Baptist fellowship according to the ad- mission of Baptists.
The Bible teaches that the Lord's Table is in his kingdom, Lk. 22:29. Those in the kingdom have a rig·ht to eat. Baptists teach that there are people in all church es that are children of God, and yet they will not eat with the m . The Bible no where speaks of close communion. It only speaks of communion. So the Baptists are wron g on thi s point a s well as many others.
27. Baptists do not meet upon the first day of every week to observe the Lord's Supper.
If we ·are not to meet upon the first day of the week, every week, pray tell me upon what first day of the week are we to do this thing. In the days of the apos- tles the disciples came together upon the first day of the week to break bread, Acts 20:7. Paul warns against for- saking th e a ssembly in Heb. 10:25. The Jerusalem Church continu ed steadfastly in this Christian duty, Acts 2:42. No church can be the church of the Lord, the New Testament Church, that forsakes the weekly observan ce of the Lord's Supper.
28. Baptis t s neglect the weekly contribution of th eir means as requ ired by the New Testament. Read 1 Cor. 16 :1, 2. Bapti sts use various schemes to raise money. Sometime s they have pie suppers, box suppers, etc. Such practice is unknown to the New Testament Church. ··we beli eve tha t it is the duty of every member of th e church to contribute according to his ability upon the
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first day of the week. We do not believe in asking people outside the church for financial help, but let the citizens of Christ's kingdom supply the financial needs in spread- ing the gospel and in caring for the needy. All this we can do by faith for we have apostolic example.
29. Baptists have one plan for salvation and another for church membership.
They teach that repentance and faith will save your soul from sin, Hiscox Manual, p. 64, Article VIII. They teach that in order to become a member of the Baptist Church now one must relate an experience of grace be- fore the church, then be voted into fellowship and bap- tized. Hiscox Manual, p. 22, Chapter IV. They further admit that such was not the practice in the days of the apostles.
If a person can go to heaven by repentance and faith, but cannot become a member of the Baptist Church with- out an experience, vote of the church, and baptism by a Baptist preacher, then it requires more to be a Baptist than it does to go to heaven. Why not go on to heaven and stay out of the Baptist Church? Isn't that some predicament, yet it is exactly what they teach. Further- more, if this be true one can go to heaven and never eat their communion and yet they claim to set the Lord's Supper. Pshaw!
30. It teaches that you can be saved out of Christ.
I make this objection on the following ground: They teach that you are saved by repentance and faith without baptism, but the Bible teaches that we are baptized into Christ. Rom. 6:3-5, Gal. 3:26, 27. If saved before baptism, then saved out of Christ. Baptists cannot escape this con- clusion. Let them find the passage in the New Testament that tells how one gets into Christ or into his body, and I'll show that baptism is in that passage. Can't they teach the truth on any thing?
31. I object to the Baptist Church because its teach- ing would be that salvation is outside the name of Father,
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Son, and Holy Spirit.
If one is saved before baptism, then he is savedoutside of the name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In Matt. 28:19, 20, we are told how to get into the name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. "Baptizing them into the name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." Let the Baptists point to one single scripture that tells how to get into the name without baptism! Can they do it? They certainly cannot.
32. It does not preach the gospel as recorded in Mark 16:15, 16.
Instead of teaching faith and baptism as conditions of salvation, they teach that one is saved when he be- lieves and that without baptism. This is in plain contra- diction to the Bible. Had the Baptists been writing the Bible they would not have written Mark 16:16, as did the Lord through his apostle.
33. The Baptist Church teaches that man is born into this world totally depraved. Hiscox's Manual, p. 60, Art. III, "The Fall of Man".
"We believe the Scriptures teach that man was cre- ated in holiness, under the law of his maker; but by vol- untary transgression fell from that holy and happy state; in consequence of which all mankind are now sin- ners not by constraint but by choice; being by nature utterly void of that holiness required by the law of God; positively inclined to evil; and therefore under just con- demnation, without defense or excuse." Pendleton's Man- ual, p. 46.
There you have it from their own books. Man by nature is utterly void of holiness or purity, positively in- clined to evil. If man is void of purity then there is no purity about him. If no purity then is without purity and that at birth. If mankind at birth be totally depraved just how can evil men grow worse and worse? 2 Tim. 3:13. What would they be after they grow worse and worse if they are born totally depraved?
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Jesus taught that we must be converted and become as little children in order to enter the kingdom, Matt. 19:14. Did he mean that the kingdom is composed of to- tally depraved subjects? If man at generation or birth be totally depraved and after this degenerates, what state or condition is he in then? Regeneration will bring men back from degeneration to the plain of generation. Ac- cording to Baptist doctrine when man is regenerated he is brought back to the plain of total depravity. Why not teach as did the Lord that "of such is the king- dom of heaven." That is, the kingdom is composed of pure people. When man degenerates from purity he be- comes impure, and then when he obeys the truth he is purified or regenerated. 1 Pet. 1:22. Many are the argu- ments just here that could be presented to show the fal- sity of the Baptist doctrine on this teaching, but space
forbids.
34. The doctrine of total depravity makes God re-sponsible for the damnation of man.
If man is born totally depraved, that is the entireman is corrupt, and so dead in sin that he can't do any- thing until he receives a direct operation of the Holy Spirit to quicken him or make him alive, then if God fails to send the Spirit and the man is not quickened, who is responsible, God or the sinner?
Notice further: Baptist doctrine is that the Holy
Spirit must operate in a direct way in order to remove
the depravity, and that when the depravity is removed ·t man has eternal life and cannot lose it. The three funda-
mental doctrines of Calvinism are: The total depravity of J. man; the direct operation of the Holy Spirit, and the perseverance of the saints and are as inseparable as the
Siamese twins. If man is depraved totally and the Spirit
removes all the depravity, th.en it removes the entire manor anihilates him, and therefore there is no part of man left to give eternal life to.
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The Bible teaches that salvation is by grace through faith, Eph. 2:8-10. Baptists are wrong again. There is a human side to salvation, and -there is a divine side. Grace is the divine part, faith is the human part. Everything that God does toward the salvation of man is embodied in
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teaches that salvation is wholly by grace, or of. grace. See Pendleton's Church Manual, p. 47, or Hiscox's Manual, p. 61.
J the word grace, and everything that man does is embo- died in faith. Salvation is not wholly or entirely by grace, neither is it wholly or entirely of faith, but it is by grace through faith.
36. Baptists teach that salvation or justification is solely through faith in the Redeemer's blood. Pendleton's Manual, p. 48, and Hiscox's Manual, p. 62.
"Solely" means: singly, alone, only, without another. If Baptists are right here it follows that justification is singly, only, by faith or through faith and this excludes repentance as well as confession and baptism. James 2:17, 20 teaches that faith without works is dead. We are also told that a man is not justified by faith only, Jas. 2:25. Here is a plain contradiction between Baptist doctrine and the Bible.
37. I object to Baptist doctrine because it misuses the word "Baptist". It is thus defined by Webster: "One who administers baptism." Since only the Baptist preacher is the one that administers baptism then none other mem- ber of the Baptist Church can be a Baptist. In none other sense was John a Baptist. This was his official title, or as some translations give it, John the Immerser, John the Dipper. How would it sound to say, The Immerser Church, or, The Dipper Church.
38. It teaches the Bible to be imperfect in the con- viction and conversion of man.
·They teach that the Holy Spirit must operate separate and apart from, or distinct from the word of God in con- viction and conversion. Let them name one thing that
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the Holy Spirit does that He does not do through the Word. The Spirit quickens, John 6:63; but the word · quickens, Psa. 119:25, 119:50. Hence the Spirit quickens . How? Through the word of God. David said, "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." Psa. 19:7. If Baptists believed this they would never pray for addition- al power or a direct operation of the Holy Spirit in addi- tion to the word of the Lord to convict and convert the sinner. Rom. 8:1-4, and Jas. 1:25. For the thirty-eighth time we have pointed out where Baptists are wrong.
39. I object to Baptist doctrine and practice for the 1·eason they use instrumental music in worship. This is a relic of Judaism that was borrowed from the Jews by the Catholics, the Protestants borrowing it from Rome, and the First Christian Church borrowing it from the Protes- tant Denominations.
The thing to do when you borrow something is to take it back home where you got it. The First Christian Church needs to take it back to the modern denominations, they in turn should return the relic to Rome, and Rome ought to give it back to Judaism.
The New Testament Church was commanded to sing, not play. Col. 3:16, 17, Eph. 5:19. When the Lord's Sup- per was instituted just after its observance they sang a hymn. Matt. 26:30. Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God while in a Roman prison, Acts 16:25. Let the Baptists find one church in New Testament times, or in the days of the apostles that ever used it. Let them find one precept, command, or example for its use in the entire New Testament, or they must admit they are not apostolic in doctrine and practice. The use of mechani- cal instruments is one of the points of difference be- tween the Greek Catholics and Roman Catholics. The New Testament was written in Greek.
The leaders of the Reformation opposed its use. John Wesley said he would have no objection to their be- ing placed in their chapels provided they were never seen
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nor heard. John Ca lvi n opposed their use. Likewise, Adam Clarke.
The leaders of the Restoration opposed instrumental music. Alexander Campbell said, "They sound like a cow bell in a concert." Baptists as well as denominationalism in general ought to return this property to the ones from whom they borrowed.
40. Baptists teach eternal life before repentance.
Baptists teach that one believes in God, repents, and after repenting then believes in Christ. They make a use of John 5;24 on the proposition to show that the believer has eternal life the very moment he believes. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." They emphasize the word "hath" and say that it means he has it the very moment he believes and that he can't lose it.
If ther e be anything to this argument constructed on John 5.24, and if their teaching be true that faith in God precedes repentance then this passage would teach that man has eternal life when or at the time he believes in God, and before he repents and believes in Christ. The objection is proven by their own logic.
They further teach that "shall not come into condem- nation" in this passage means that the believer cannot come into condemnation, or go to hell. Let us look at John 3:36 in connection with this argument. "He that be- lieveth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that be- lieveth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth upon him." One of God's shall nots is just as strong as another. If shall not in John 5:24 means that the believer cannot become an unbeliever and go to hell, or be lost, then I insist that shall not in John 3:36, means that the unbeliever cannot become a believer and go to heaven, or be saved. This drives the Baptists into the doc- trine of fatalism or unconditional salvation and damna-
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tion. Iri fact, their position on John 5:24, interpreted by John 3:36, drives them into universal damnation.
The truth of the matter is this: As long as a man remains faithful he cannot be lost, and as long as a man remains in unbelief he cannot be saved; but, just as surely as an unbeliever can become a believer and be saved, that surely a man who is a believer can become an unbeliever and be lost and fall away from the grace or favor of God. 1 Tim. 4:1, Heb. 3:12, Psa. 106:12, 24.
Baptist doctrine is ruined again. It is a pleasure to me ·to take up the very scriptures they introduce and turn
them against them. To the Baptist people who have been mislead by false teachers, I say: You have my deepest sympathy, but when I go after the false teacher I leave my sympathy at home. "If the blind lead the blind they both fall into "theditch."
41. It teaches that the Holy Spirit failed to complete His work.
The Bible teaches that the Holy Spidt would guide ·the apostles into all truth. John 16:13. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free," John 8:32.
Paul said, "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Rom. 8:2. Again in Rom. 1:16, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
In the face of these plain statements in God's Word, .Baptists teach that it requires more than the gospel or the truth to make one free from sin, that it requires an additional power to the word of God, a direct operation of the Holy Spirit. Peter said, "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth." 1 Pet. 1:22. Baptists are out of line with Christ, Paul, and Peter. This, however, is
nothing uncommon.
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Paul tells us in 2 Tim. 2:10, "salvatitm is in Christ." The Bible says that we are baptized into Christ, Rom. 6:3, and Gal. 3:27. So if one is saved before baptism as Bap- tists teach, th~n they are saved before they reach salva- tion.
43. Baptist teaching will force one to the conclusion that salvation is in the kingdom of the Devil.
They teach one is saved before baptism. The Bible says, "We are all baptized into one body." 1 Cor. 12:13. That body is the church, Col. 1:18. The church is the kingdom, Matt. 16:18. Hence, if saved before baptism then saved out of Christ's Church or kingdom, If out of the Lord's kingdom then one is in the Devil's kingdom. The charge or conclusion is correct then: Baptists place salvation in the kingdom of the DeYil not the Lord's.
44. It does not believe the prayer that Jesus prayed for unity as recorded in John 17.
Instead they teach that there are Christians in all churches, and some of them go so far as to say: "We thank the Lord for diYision so that a man can join the church of his choice." As much as to say the Lord has no choice in the matter.
45. It will not wear the new name that the Lord gave his people, but wear the name "Baptist."
In Isaiah 62:2, the prophet said that after the Gen- tiles saw God's righteousness and all the kings his glory that God's people would be called by a new name. He shows in Isa. 56:5, that this name was to be given to those in the house of God. In Isa. 65:14,15 that he would slay Israel and call his servants by another name. In Acts 10, the Gentiles saw God's righteousness. Acts 11:26, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." Paul endorsed this name, Acts 26:28. Peter approved of the name, 1 Pet. 4:16. Notwithstanding the teaching of the Bible the Baptists prefer to wear the name "Baptist.''
46. I object to their doctrine for the reason that they teach that no one can be a Baptist unless baptized by a
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Baptist preacher.
This keeps John the Baptist out for he was not bap-tized. Therefore John could not have fellowship in the Baptist Church if he were on earth today. John taught that baptism was for the remission of sins, Lk. 3:3. Let a Baptist preach it that way today and he would be turned out of the church for heresy.
47. Baptists will not give the answer to honest in- quirers that Peter gave in Acts 2:38.
If a sinner now wants to know what to do to be saved, Baptists will instruct them to pray for salvation, or just repent and believe and you will be saved. After that you will have to be baptized by a Baptist preacher in order to get into the Baptist Church, but not to be saved. Let a Baptist preacher today tell sinners what Peter told them on the day of Pentecost and he will be marked by them as an heretic. Oh! how they regret that Acts 2:38 is in the Bible.
48. It teaches that the word "for" in Acts 2:38 means because of remission, not in order to remission.
In Matt. 26:28, we have the same phrase in English and in Greek as in Acts 2:38, "for remission of sins." I insist that if "for" in Acts 2:38, means because of, and if this be true, Jesus shed his blood because of remission, instead of in order to remission. Just as surely as Jesus shed his blood in order to remission, then just that surely repentance and baptism are in order to remission. This being true man h a s remission before baptism and likewise before repentance. This drives the Baptists into the old Primitive Baptist theory of unconditional salvation. Too bad that they get every thing mixed up, isn't it?
49. They teach that little infants are born in sin and therefore are totally depraved.
They go to such passages of scripture as Eph. 2:1-3, to try to prove this doctrine . "We were all the children of wrath by nature," says Paul. Baptists contend that this proves that all are born in sin. If they would take the time
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to read this passage closely they would learn that these folks had walked and talked or had conversion. So they were old enough to walk and talk. One would have to find another scripture aside from this to prove the baby is born in sin.
1 Cor. 11:14, "Doth not even nature itself teach yoi;, that if a ·man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?" What does "nature" here mean? It means custom or practice. Well, by custom or practice man becomes a child of wrath, that is, by his walk and talk. If the infant is a child of wrath then it is a child of the Devil at birth ac- cording to Baptist theodogians. How do you Baptist mothers enjoy that doctrine? Jesus said, "Of such is th~ kingdom of heaven." In preference to the teaching of Bap- tist preachers on this point I prefer the teaching of Christ.
50. Baptists teach an unbroken line of succession of churches back to the days of Christ and the apostles on earth.
They boast loud and long about being the ·only reli- gious body on earth that can rattle the chain of succes- sion back to the days of the apostles and Christ on the earth. The truth of the matter is they cannot find the term "Baptist Church" in the Bible. Neither can they find a history written prior to the seventeenth century in which any kind of Baptist Church is mentioned.
Let us now have some history on the subject. These quotations, mind you, were written by Baptist historians:
(1) Benedict, p. 304. "The first regularly ordained Baptist Church of which we possess any account is dated from 1607, and was formed in London by a Mr. Smyth, who had been a clergyman in the church of England. It was formed on the principles of ·the 'General Baptists.' In the year 1633 the first particular Baptist Church was formed in London under Mr. Spilsbury.''
(2) Armitage, p. 456. Mr. Armitage says that Smyth baptized himself. · ··
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· of the difference between the Particular Baptists and the General Baptists says: "The difference was small. Smyth is regarded as the founder of the General Baptists of Eng- land which are Arminian in doctrine and close or re- stricted communion; while the Particular Baptists are for the most part, Calvinistic in doctrine and open in com- munion."
The reader can see from this that either route they go, through Spilsbury or Smyth, they cannot go back of 1633, or at best 1607, and find a Baptist Church mentioned in history.
It is not necessary to trace a line of sucession. If the truth is preached today as it was in the days of the apos- tles, and if that truth is preached, believed, and obeyed it will produce the same kind of plant or organization as that which was produced in the days of the apostles, for the word is the seed, Lk. 8:11. Baptist doctrine reduced to an absurdity would be this: In order to grow a Georgia
·rattlesnake watermelon in any other state than Georgia, the seed would have to be planted in Georgia and the vine run over into another state in order to produce the same kind of melon in that state. Watermelon growers know better than that. They simply plant the same kind of seed in their respective states and it produces the same kind of melon as that grown in Georgia. Likewise, the same kind of seed (gospel, or word) preached today produces the same kind of plant or church in any part of the world.
51. It is guilty of treason against King Jesus.
Baptists teach that the church is a democracy and not a monarchy. The Bible teaches that the church or kingdom is a royal monarchy. Christ is the monarch. He is the law- giver and maker for his kingdom. The executive, legis- lative, and judicial branches of government rest and abide with him. He is the king, and he is the head of the body, Col. 1:18. He is not only the head of the body, but he is the head over all things to the church which is his body. Eph. 1:22, 23. Baptists are wrong again.
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52. I object to the Baptist Church because it is un- profitable to us.
Acts 20:20, "I have kept back nothing that was prof- itable to you." But Paul in all of his preaching and writing did not one time mention -a Baptist Church of any kind. The conclusion is inevitable and irrefutible that the Bap- tist Church is not profitable to any one. About the only thing you can get in the Baptist Church that you cannot get out of it is their close communion doctrine. I've chal- lenged them on this point to name one thing aside from this. I've never met the man that could.
53. The Baptist Church does not belong to the coun- sel of God.
Paul said, "I have shunned not to declare unto you the whole counsel of God." Acts 20:27. No where did Paul de- clare anything about the Baptist Church. We conclude that the Baptist Church is no part of the counsel of God. We have only three counsels: the counsel of God, the counsel of men, and the counsel of the Devil. Draw your own conclusion as to which of the last two the Baptist Church is a part of.
54. It teaches salvation through faith only.
I refer you on that point to Hiscox's Manual, p. 62. Baptists say that "justification is solely through faith in Jesus Christ." The word "solely" means only, singly, a- lone, without another, according to Webster. If man is justified through faith solely, then he is justified by faith alone, or by faith only. This is in plain contradiction to the verse in James 2 that tells us it is not by faith only. (v. 24) Baptists do not seem to care for contradicting, cor- rupting, and perverting the word of God.
66. It is easier to go to heaven than it is to get into the Baptist Church .
Baptists teach repentance and faith will save your soul, but you must relate an experience of grace, be voted upon and baptized in order to get into the Baptist Church Hiscox's Manual, p. 64, Article VIII. Page 22, Chap. IV.
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They teach that one is saved before he ever gets into the Baptist Church. If so, salvation is not in the Baptist Church. But reconciliation is in the body of Christ, Eph. 2·:16. The body of Christ is the church, Eph. 1:22, 23, and Col. 1:18. It follows scripturally and logically that the Baptist Church is not and cannot be the Church of Christ.
56. It perverts the gospel of Christ in spite of the warning of the Apostle Paul.
Read the passage in Gal. 1:8, 9. How do they pervert the gosp el? By changing the words of inspiration.
The Bible: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Mk. 16:16 .
The Bapti st s : He that believeth is saved without baptism.
The Bible: Repent and be baptized for the remission of sins. Acts 2:38:
The · Baptists: Repent and get remission of sins, and be baptized because you have the remission of your sins.
The Bible: Arise and be baptized and wash away your sins. Acts 22:16.
Baptists: Be baptiz ed because you have no sins to wash away.
The Bible: Bapti sm saves us. 1 Pet. 3:21. Baptists: Baptism does not ,save us.
Thus they tile truth into
upon them .
pervert the go s pel of Christ. They change
a . lie , and the condemnation ·
of God rests
57. Bap tis t
would be that Christ died in vain.doctrine forc ed to its logical conclusion Th ey t each th at t he word "for" (eis) in Acts 2:38,
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shed his blood for many for (eis) -the remission of sins. If the word for in these passages means because of, then Christ shed his blood because their sins were already re- mitted, and therefore died in vain.
58. Baptists teach the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which God said through the Apostle John, he hates, Rev. 2:6.
The Nicolaitans were antinomian in doctrine ac- cording to Hastings Bible Dictionary, and the Internation- al Encyclopedia. Webster defined antinomianism as "the doctrine of justification by faith only and release there- after from all moral law." I have previously shown in ob- jection 54, from Hiscox's Manual, their creed, p. 62 of that Manual, that Baptists teach justification by faith only. They openly say that the Christian is not under any kind of law now. They cannot escape the charge or objection that they teach the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, and God hates the doctrine. The Nicolaitans existed Jong before there was a Baptist Church on earth.
59. Baptists teach that regeneration precedes faith and repentance, Hiscox's Manual, p. 63, 64.
Their creed says that repentance and faith are holy fruits of regeneration. There you have it. If repentance and faith are the fruits of regeneration, then regeneration is the tree. Just as you have the tree before the fruit, like- wise you have regeneration before faith and repentance. This drives the Baptists again into the doctrine of fatal- ism, which is the old Calvinistic doctrine of unconditional election or salvation.
60. Baptists teach that repentance and faith are wrought in the heart or soul by the regenerating influence of the Holy Spirit, Hiscox's Manual, p. 64, Art. VIII.
They further teach that regeneration is performed by the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth which is above man's comprehension, Hiscox's Manual, p. 63. The Bible teaches that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, Rom. 10:17. It also teaches that repen-
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tance is something we do, not something God does for us. Lk.13:3-5; Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30; Rom. 2:4.
61. Baptists teach a doctrine that originated in hell .
In Luke 16:19-31, we have the account of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man desired and expressed that desire to Abraham that Lazarus might be sent back to this world to the rich man's family and warn his five brothers lest they also come to torment. Abraham said, "They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them." Still he pleaded for miraculous power to be exerted in their conversion, to which Abraham replied: "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be per- suaded though one rose from the dead."
The rich man demanded that a miracle be performed to save his brethren. Baptists teach and pray that God will send down the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which would be a miracle in order to convert the sinner. Hence, they express the same desire that the rich man expressed in hell. So they teach a doctrine that originated in hell.
CONCLUSION
These objections have been filed with the hope thatthey might show to honest, sincere Baptists the way - of salvation, and point out to them the folly of following the doctrines and commandments of men.
When my spirit has returned unto God and my body has mingled again with the elements of the earth, I pray that though dead I will yet be speaking through these truths sustained in this booklet, and that many may be led out of the gloom of darkness, ignorance, and error into the glorious light of day.
If I had been deceived by false doctrine and then learned the truth and obeyed it, I would then concur heartily with the poet in his statement:
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"I loathe thee in my bosom, and scorn thee with my eye,
I'll taunt you with my latest breath, and fight you till I die."
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QUESTIONS I HAVE ASKED BAPTISTS IN RELIGI- OUS DEBATES I HAVE CONDUCTED AND THEIR ANSWERS:
1. Is the Baptist Church a denomination? Yes .
2. ls God the author of denominationalism? No.
3. Can one go to heaven and not be a member of theBaptist Church? Yes.
4. Can one go to heaven without being a child in God'sfamily? No.
5. Can one go to heaven without being baptized? Yes. 6. Can one get into the Baptist Church without beingbaptized by a Baptist preacher? No.
7. Is the Baptist Church composed of those that you andyour brethren baptize? Yes.
8. Do you baptize the outer man or the inner man? Theoutward man.
9. Is the outward or inward man converted? Which?The inward man.
10. Do not all unconverted men go to hell? Yes. 11. Do you baptize a child of God, or a child of theDevil? A child of God.
12. Does the child of God have the life of God in him be-fore baptism? Yes .
13. ls baptism a burial? Yes .
14. Do you not teach that mankind is born into this wor ldtotally depraved? Yes.
15. Do you not teach that the direct operation of the Hol ySpirit removes all of the depravity? Yes.
16. Can one be saved and not believe Baptist doctrine?Yes.
17. Can one be saved and not believe the truth? No.
18. Would you baptize a man upon the simple confession G.fActs 8:37 as did Philip? No.
19. Are there any infants among the non-elect? No. 20. Haven't all been infant but Adam and Eve? Yes. 21. Can you call your brother a fool? Yes.
22. Do you sin? Yes.
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sin? No.
24. Can you construct a sentence having a compound predicate in order to obtain an object, and the two verbs in the sentence connected by the co-ordinate conjunction "and", yet have one of the verbs point- ing forward and the other backward? No.25. Which church is the bride of Christ according to John 3 :29? The Baptist Church.
26. How many brides does the Lord have? One.
27. Then is anyone else married to Christ but Baptists?
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