Appendix.Myles.Werntz.Predestination


Claiming that God picks innocent infants to burn in hell is PROOF that such people are just arrogant.

God foreordained or prePurposed that those who are baptized INTO Christ will be conformed to His image.
The only ELECT was a small band of Jews who never bowed to Baal.

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;
Matt. 16:24
THEN said Jesus unto his disciples,
         IF any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matt. 21:25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men?
        And they reasoned with themselves, saying, IF we shall say, From heaven;
        he will say unto us, Why did ye not
THEN believe him?
Luke 11:13 IF ye THEN, being evil, know how to give good gIFts unto your children:
        how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ASK him?
John 8:52 Then said the Jews unto him,
        Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets;
        and thou sayest, IF a man keep my saying,
        he shall never taste of death.

Rom. 8:13 For IF ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:
        but
IF ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body,
         ye shall live.
Rom. 8:17 And IF children, THEN heirs; heirs of God,
        and joint-heirs with Christ; IF so be that we SUFFER with him,
        THAT we may be also glorIFied together.
Rom. 8:23 And not only they, but OURSELVES also,
        which have the firstfruits of the Spirit,
        even WE OURSELVES groan within
OURSELVES,
        waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body
Matt. 12:37 For by thy WORDS thou shalt be JUSTIFIED,
        and by thy
WORDS thou shalt be CONDEMNED.
Luke 6:37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged:
       
CONDEMN not, and ye shall not be CONDEMNED:
        forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Luke 11:32 The men of Nineve
     shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall
CONDEMN it:
    FOR they repented at the preaching of Jonas;
    and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not CONDEMNED:
        but he that believeth not is
CONDEMNED already,
        because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Rom. 8:1 There is therefore now no CONDEMNATION
        to them which are in Christ Jesus,
        who walk not after the FLESH, [ours]
        but [
walk] after the SPIRIT. [ours]
Heb. 11:7 By faith Noah,
        being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
        MOVED with fear, PREPARED an ark to the saving of his house;
        by the which he
CONDEMNED the world,
        and became HEIRS of the righteousness which is by faith.
James 5:9 GRUDGE NOT one against another, brethren,
         LEST ye be
CONDEMNED: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Abilene Christian University has added a Baptist Theologian. This is consistent with ACU and the dogma of its Theology department.  Most of the once-Christian Bible Colleges are repurposed to the Baptist or other non-Biblical Theology to replace Scripture.

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1John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

BAPTIST THEOLOGY IS DEFINED AS NOT CONNECTED TO THE HISTORICAL TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS, MADE CERTAIN BY SIGNS AND WONDERS, AND LEFT FOR OUR "MEMORY" BY EYE AND EAR WITHESSES.

CALVINISM HAS INFILTRATED ALL OF THE ONCE-CHURCH OF CHRIST PROPERTIES. MYLES WERNTZ IS NOT A "CHANGE AGENT."

CLICK BELOW TO PROVE Scripture makes it very clear that the ELECT applies only to the tiny number of PRESERVED Israelites who had not bowed to Baal.

FIRST, JESUS AND ALL OF SCRIPTURE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT COMMERCIAL-GRADE WORSHIP INSTITUTIONS ARE NOT CHRISTIAN BUT IN FACT ANTICHRISTIAN.

Calvinist cannot read paragraphs.  The effect of spiritual blindness is to miss out on being a Christian.  Jesus MARKED those who go beyond READING or SPEAKING the WORD, logos or REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE as ANTI-Christians.

ACU Werntz T - Total Depravity

That means simply MAN is DEAD. The Bible says that you and I are dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1-6) unless we are born again. DEAD!!! More than that, the man or woman who is dead in sin hates God, and his "carnal mind" is "enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7). His will is stubbornly steeled against God. This Biblical idea changes a lot of modern talk about salvation.

Eph. 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
        the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Eph. 1:8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Eph. 1:9 Having MADE KNOWN unto us the mystery of his will,
        according to his good pleasure which he hath PURPOSED in himself:
Eph. 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times
        he might gather together in one all things in Christ,
        both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Eph. 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
         being PREDESTINATED according to the purpose of him
        who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Eph. 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first TRUSTED in Christ.
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,
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them,
        Repent, and be BAPTIZED every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
        FOR the remission of sins,
        and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be CONVERTED,
        THAT your sins may be blotted out,
        when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
g403. anapsuxis, an-aps΄-ook-sis; from 404; properly, a recovery of BREATH [spirit], i.e. (figuratively) revival: — revival.
Those who CHOOSE to obey Christ by being baptized, REQUEST A good conscience or A holy spirit which enables one to read BLACK tesxt on BROWN Paper.

Eph. 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the
        redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Eph. 1:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Eph. 1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
Eph. 1:17 THAT the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
        may give unto you
        the
SPIRIT [never a god or person] of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph. 1:18 The EYES of your understanding being enlightened;
        THAT ye may know what is the hope of his calling,
        and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints


Eph. 2:1  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in  [YOUR] trespasses and sins;

HELP IS ON THE WAY: 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.


Eph. 2:2 Wherein in time past YE WALKED according to the course of this WORLD,
        according to the prince of the power of the air,
        the SPIRIT that now worketh in the children of DISOBEDIENT:
kosmos  generally, of things, natural order, “k. kunōn” X.Cyn.6.1   of ornaments of speech, such as epithets, Id.9.9 (pl.), Arist.Rh.1408a14, Po.1457b2, 1458a33; hadumelē k. keladein to sing sweet songs of praise,  of earth, as OPPOSITE. heaven, “h
Eph. 2:3 Among whom also WE all had OUR conversation in times past in the lusts of OUR flesh,
        fulfilling the desires of the [
OUR] flesh and of the mind;
        and were by nature the children of WRATH [
orgia], even as others.
hostis ta Kabeirōn orgia memuētai in the mysteries of the Cabiri, Hdt.2.51; ta megala (sc. mustēria
phusis II.  the natural form or constitution of a person or thing as the result of growth
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the LUSTS of our FLESH,
      
      fulfilling the desires of the
flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of WRATH, even as others. Ephesians 2: 3 [Music-Induced ORGY]
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,

in PUTTING the
body of the sins of the flesh
 
    by the circumcision of Christ: Col 2:11
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love

wherewith he loved us, Ephesians 2: 4
Buried with him in BAPTISM,

WHEREIN also

And hath RAISED us up together, and
   
      made us
sit together in heavenly   p
     laces
IN Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2:6

ye are RISEN with him through the faith of the OPERATION of God,

who hath raised him from the dead. Col.2:12

Even when we were dead in sins, hath "QUICKENED" (regenerated) us together WITH Christ,
     (by grace ye are SAVED) Ephesians 2:5
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he QUICKENED together with him,

having FORGIVEN you all TRESPASSES
; Col 2:13

THIS IS NOT NEW TO ABILENE WHERE MOST SOWING OF DISCORD BEGAN. This all began when Isaiah 3 was fulfilled and women and "boys" began the rule over the VISIBLE but ANTICHRISTIAN Church or Kingdom which will have Jesus as the HEAD and the CORNER STONE or ANGLE which is totally free from anything that interferes with SCHOOL OF CHRIST (the Campbell's term.
1Cor. 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home:
        for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1Cor. 14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

1Cor. 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual,
        let him acknowledge that the things
        that I WRITE unto you are the COMMANDMENTS of the Lord.
THUS SAITH THE LAW: Semiramis the Mother of harlots (emasculated), Eve, Miriam, and all of the PAGAN religions SILENCED by Jesus who MARKED male or female who did not "teach that which had been written FOR OUR LEARNING." THAT IS THE PATTERN.

E.R. Harper c.1970 Calvinism means "universal damnation" unless—remember this word unless—Unless Cod sends the "miraculous operation" of the Holy Spirit into his heart and regenerates him and saves him, for his "natural man, the sinner," cannot receive the Word of Cod; for it can neither be known nor discerned by the "sinner" according to Mr. Pain. From this false concept of man has grown all this "direct, immediate. miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit" cursing the church today. This is what my book is all about!

—SISTER JO BASS—

Please pay close attention to Sister Bass' argument based upon I Corinthians chapter 2, verse 14. Study carefully my answer to the Calvinistic doctrine in her book, or outline, "The Holy Spirit and I" for they are all but "word for word" the arguments of Mr. Paine and the following Mr. Jones.

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THIS LINKS TO WRITINGS OF JOHN T. WILLIS WHO NEVER NEEDS TO DILIGNTLY SEEK THE HOLY SCRIPTURE

John T. Willis: At the Highland Church of Christ, a faithful Christian woman who studied the Bible very carefully,
        TAUGHT the elders at Highland that THIS TRADITIONAL view was far from the truth of the Bible.
        She cited numerous texts in the Bible that the Holy Spirit works in our lives
                 just as MUCH as he did in the first century.

                Slowly, but surely, the whole church listened and learned and changed our position FOR THE GOOD.
 Rom. 5:12[nkjv,niv, nasb] Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the WORLD, and death by sin;
        and so death passed upon all men,
        BECAUSE all have sinned:


JESUS SAID THAT GOD HIDES FROM THE WISE OR SOPHISTS: RHETORICIANS, SINGERS, INSTRUMENT PLAYERS, ACTORS==HYPOCRITES AND PARASITES BY GREEK DEFINITION.

No one was ever made unrighteous because of the sin of Adam and Eve.  Many people after the death of Adam and Eve were defined as righteous BECAUSE they did that which was RIGHT.

Heb. 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,
        by which he obtained witness that he was RIGHTEOUS,
        God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
1John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was OF that wicked one, and slew his brother.
        And wherefore slew he him?
        Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s
RIGHTEOUS.

1John 4:4 YE ARE OF GOD, little children, and have overcome them:
        because greater is HE THAT IS IN YOU,
        than he that is IN THE WORLD.
1John 4:5 They are OF THE WORLD:
        therefore speak they
OF the world,
        and the world heareth them.
1John 4:6 WE ARE OF GOD:
        he that knoweth God heareth us;
        he that
IS NOT OF GOD heareth not us.
        Hereby know we the spirit OF truth,
        and the spirit
OF error.

THOSE WHO ARE OF THE EARTH (Dust=Aborigines) are NOT of God and therefore ACCUSE God of Evil by saying that God PICKS some to BURN IN HELL even infants. 

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.

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.
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 PRINCIPLE

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.

THE WOMEN FORCE THE MEN TO DO MONASTRY TIME, MEDITATE AND WALK THE LABYRINTH.
SURPRISE: THEY WALK A SPIRAL OR THE SYMBOL OF THE SERPENT.

Devil 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,  “poλma,” 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],

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."

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Antiluron
mousas
” S.Tr.643 (lyr.);  PLAYING THE LYRE
“Aiakō moisan pherein”
I. bear or carry a load,  A Laded Burden

Jesus said that the ancient and modern Pharisees who said that Jesus "made Himself God" that they were Blasphemers.
John said that those who denied that it was the MAN Jesus and them made Lord and Christ 30 years later came in the FLESH are ANTICHRISTS.

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.

Trinitarians call Jesus and and His Father liars:
Num. 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie;
        neither the son of man, that he should repent:
        hath he said, and shall he not do it?
        or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good
Holy Spirit cannot be the name of a God or even a person: pure breath or SPIRIT is a parable to fool the foolish. Spirit defines God putting His WORD into the MOUTH of the MAN Jesus or Nazareth for the Last Days.

Jesus denies that He is God: He is the SON OF MAN.

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.

Jesus said that those who SPEAK their own WORDS when speaking for God are the sons of the Devil.


John 8:30 As he spake these
WORDS, many believed on him.
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
        the flesh profiteth nothing:
        the
WORDS that I speak unto you,
        they are
SPIRIT, and they are life.
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is,
        when the dead shall hear the voice of the SON OF GOD: and they that hear shall live.
John 5:26 For as the Father HATH LIFE IN HIMSELF.
        so hath he GIVEN to the Son to have life in himself;
John 5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
        BECAUSE he is the SON OF MAN.
Num. 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie;
        neither the SON OF MAN that he should repent:
        hath he said, and shall he not do it?
        or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Theologians boast that they speak Historical Theology depending on CO-HUMANS to Co-Inspire.  Jesus denies that they are DISCIPLES who are STUDENTS. A student has nothing to say or teach: that is why the MARK of the Little Flock of Lost Spirits are commanded in 1 Timothy to be SILENT--male or female-so that we might all be SAFE and come to a knowledge of the truth.

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;


The Holy Spirit picks words which Simple Simon could understand.

SPEAKING the WORD, logos or REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE as ANTI-Christians.

The Holy Spirit picks words which Simple Simon could understand. Peter says BAPTISM SAVES because that is the only way to REQUEST A GOOD conscience or A holy spirit.

1Pet. 3:21 The like figure whereunto even BAPTISM DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US
           (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,  [Jewish baptisms]
            but the answer [REQUEST FOR] of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:


BAPTIST AND ACU THEOLOGIANS CALL PETER A LIAR.
Titus 3:5 Not by WORKS of righteousness which we have done,
        but according to his mercy he saved us,
                by the WASHING [baptism]
                of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
[Our become UNholy spirit or mind]
Eph. 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph. 5:26WEB That he might sanctify and cleanse it
        with the washing of water
        [INTO] the word,   (In Verbo, En, Eis)
        Into Converto , epistles of a writer, to be occupied in,  Into
        INTO: Philo-sophos Love of educatioon, an academy Philo-mathes or Philo-Logos
              OPPOSIITE of Sophistes A. master of one's craft, adept, expert,
              of diviners, musicians  Parapaion Khelon (play the harp, Hieron Melon
              (Melody in a religious shrine).
                        A quibbler, cheate, one who gave lessons FOR MONEY.
                         Fides (not faithful to the community) but Fides (faithful to Apollon)

    IN VERBUM or INTO DISCIPLESHIP.
    Discourse, conversation, Oral by word of mouth urnio plura verbo quam s
                    cripturā mandata dedimus,   In eccl. Lat. as a translation of logos,
        LOGOS Opposite PATHOS (personal experiences), Opposite folly,
        Opposite reasoning, deliberation,

        Logos OPPOSITE to
        Epagoge bringing in AIDS, alurement, enticement, incantations,
              opposite of human reasoning, leading into captivity

        Example  [Plat. Rep. 364c] any misdeed of a man or his ancestors,
        and that if a man wishes to harm an enemy,
        at slight cost he will be enabled to injure just and unjust alike,
                 since they are masters of spells and enchantments1
                that constrain the gods to serve their end.
        And for all these sayings they cite the poets as witnesses, with regard
        to the ease and plentifulness of vice, quoting:“
        Evil-doing in plenty a man shall find for the seeking;

        Note 1 In Laws 933 D both are used of the victim with epōdais,
              which primarily applies to the god.
              Cf. Lucan, Phars. vi. 492 and 527.


Heb. 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
        having our hearts sprinkled FROM an evil conscience,
        and our bodies washed with pure water.


SECOND CORINTHIANS 3 PAUL SAID THAT THE JEWS (THEOLOGIANS) COULD NOT READ THE SCRIPTURES NOR HEAR THEN WHEN PREACHED BY BEING READ ONCE EACH WEEK.


A Christian is a Disciple WHEN they continue in God's words once delivered to the saints.. A disciple is not a Theologian a word which applied to Apollyon.

ACU Baptist Theology, Calvinism, Predestination. Jews are the Elect.
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
        IF ye continue in my WORD,
        THEN are ye my disciples in DEED:

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth,
        and the truth shall make you free.
The WORD is God's Mind or Spirit made Visible and Audible by those words God put into the mouths of the Prophets and LASTLY Jesus of Nazareth.  If you go beyond in though of deed beyond SPEAKING or READING you are NOT a disciple and therefore not a Christian and indeed BLIND and DEAF.

Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose
 OPPOSITE -poiκsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiκtikκ, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiκmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in
creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs
” 2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresse


Baptists are especially hate-filled by accusing Churches of Christ for refusing to be subjected to things not taught by Scripture.

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.
mousikos kai melōn poētēs” 2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

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[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
        wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
        we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
        but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
            ...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
                but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots]  Theoc.2.15
The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen as sorcerers in Revelation 18.

Erasmus who gave us the Greek New Testament noted that mercenary priests have utter contempt for what Jesus called Holy Scriptures. They, like all modern preachers, pick a nice-sounding phrase from a single verse. They then proceed to the MARK of one who BLASPHEMES the Holy Spirit (God's Breath).

First, the Word of Logos is God's Regulative principle which He put as WORDS into the MOUTH of Jesus for the LAST TIME.  The Word was picked from the Greek as Logos which identified their Hermenes. Hermes was the pagan and perverted mediator between say Apollyon the leader of the Locusts or musical worship teams.

Second, theologians use the word HERMENEUTICS which they, alone, can use to make God's Word INTELLIGIBLE for which they deserved a wage. Civil Greek society and Scripture calls religious craftsmen--beyond READERS--Parasites,.


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If you read Scripture you  will discover that only a small remnant of Jews who had not bowed to BAAL were the PRESERVED or ELECT.
AND
Always in addition, the Word is sent to Gentiles.

Myles Werntz Baptists Theology at Abilene Christian University.

We don't know which of the 200 Baptists SECTS ACU is supporting but our First Look salvation by faith AND God gives the FAITH proves that they believe that they are predestined or the ELECT.  We will prove that:

The ELECT are the Tiny Remnant of Jews who have not bowed to BAAL.
In addition the Assembly (school) of Christ was/is open to GENTILES whom God will invite.  The Synagogue existed as long as God has had people to INSTRUCT ONLY and Isaiah 49 forbids the SHILOH or REST people from attending the synagogue of Levi IN A CHURCH NEAR YOU. You are not a true ISRAELITE whom GOD KNEW BEFORE.  If you are not a VERY OLD JEW who lived under the LAW there is no way that you can be the ELECT or PRESERVED REMNANT.

Matt. 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the PROPHECY of Esaias, which saith,
        By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand;
        and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Matt. 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross,
        and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes THEY HAVE CLOSED
        lest at any time they should see with their eyes,
        and hear with their ears,
        and should understand with their heart,     [Believe]
        and should be CONVERTED                     [Be Baptized]
        and I should HEAL them.                              [Receive A holy spirit or A good conscience]
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them,
Repent, and be BAPTIZED every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ

Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore,
         and be CONVERTED

       

FOR the REMISSION of sins,
g859. aphesis, af΄-es-is; from 863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon: — deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission
THAT your sins may be BLOTTED OUT,
g181 exaleipho, ex-al-i΄-fo; from 1537 and 218; to smear out, i.e. obliterate (erase tears, figuratively, pardon sin): — blot out, wipe away. g218 anointed
and ye shall receive
     the gift of the Holy Spirit
.
  when the times of REFRESHING
Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the PROMISE [personified existence] of the Holy Ghost, HE hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
shall come from the presence of the Lord;

In the STATE of Holy Spirit Paraclete
Epagg-elia  as law-term, e. (sc. dokimasias) summons to attend a dokimasia tōn rhētorōn (v. “epaggellō” 3) Prophet, Priest, king. Acts 3:20 And he shall SEND Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another [different STATE] Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
g3875. parakletos, par-ak΄-lay-tos; an intercessor, consoler: — advocate, comforter
1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an ADVOCATE with the Father, JESUS CHRIST the righteous:
g3875. parakletos, par-ak΄-lay-tos; an intercessor, consoler: — advocate, comforter
1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God, and one MEDIATOR between God and men, the MAN Christ Jesus;
Acts 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am JESUS whom thou persecutest.
Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose,
         to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast SEEN
        And of those things in the which I WILL APPEAR unto thee;
Acts 16:6NIV ETC. Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia,
          having been kept by the HOLY SPIRIT from preaching the word in the province of Asia.
Acts 16:7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia,
         but the SPIRIT OF JESUS would not allow them to.
Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the SPIRITS OF JUST MEN made perfect,
g403. anapsuxis, an-aps΄-ook-sis; from 404 [REFRESH]; properly, a recovery of BREATH, i.e. (figuratively) revival: — revival
Matt. 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
Matt. 13:17 For verily I say unto you,
        That many PROPHETS and RIGHTEOUS men
        have desired to see those things which ye see,
                and have not seen them;
        and to hear those things which ye hear,
                and have not heard them.
Matt. 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
Matt. 13:19 When any one heareth the WORD of the kingdom,
        and understandeth it not,
        then cometh the WICKED ONE  [ACU-BAPTISTS say that GOD did it]
        and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
        This is he which received seed by the way side.

ALL APOSTATE UNIVERSITIES AND THEOLOGIANS BOAST ABOUT CATCHING AWAY THE WORD. They are Purpose Driven to reject and MOCK The Regulative Principle which is the Word or Logos. The Word is an attribute of God but WORD is never a person but THE pattern gladly received by a righteous person,

AGAIN, BECAUSE NO THEOLOGIAN BELIEVES IN THE WORD, LOGOS OR REGULATIVE WHICH MARKS FOR BURNING THOSE WHO SELL THEIR OWN WORDS.
Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose OPPOSITE -poiκsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiκtikκ, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiκmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs” 2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

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[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
        wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
        we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
        but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
            ...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
                but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots]  Theoc.2.15

The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen as sorcerers in Revelation 18.
John 9:40 And some of the Pharisees [rhetoricians, singers, instrument players, hypocrites says Jesus]
        which were with him heard these words,
        and said unto him, Are we blind also?
John 9:41 Jesus said unto them,
        If ye were blind, ye should have no sin:
        but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

ACU has bonded with those who DENY this statement of Jesus. Most or all of their Thought-Leader teachers and scholars deny this.

John 10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them:
        but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
John 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again,
        Verily, verily, I say unto you, I AM the door of the sheep. [I Am never identifies THE Almighty]

John 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

AND GENTILES WHO WERE NOT THE REMNANT-ELECT.

John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are NOT OF THIS FOLD them also I must bring,
            and they shall HEAR my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

THE LOST WERE JEWS WHO HAD CLOSED THEIR OWN EYES AND EARS.
Of the Jews who RECEIVED the WORD were MARKED or SEALED by:

Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his WORD were BAPTIZED:
        and the same day there were ADDED unto them about three thousand souls.

ACU and its "Theology-replaces-Scripture" are Blind and Deaf because they MOCK God and Jesus made visible and audible by the WORD or LOGOS which is WHAT ONE SPEAKES.
Acts 11:1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea
        HEARD that the Gentiles had also RECEIVED the WORD of God.

Acts 11:2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem,
        they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

Acts 11:3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

The Predestined PURPOSE has nothing to do with LOVING all Calvinists who never confess that they were PREDESTINED to burn in Hell for accusing God of evil.

Eph. 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of HIS WILL  [last Will and Testament]
        according to his good pleasure which he hath PURPOSED IN HIMSELF
Eph. 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times
        He might gather together in one all things in Christ,
        both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Eph. 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
        being predestinated according to the purpose of him
        who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

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
Eph. 1:14 Which is the EARNEST of our inheritance
        until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
MARK OF ACU AND BAPTISTS

Isaiah 8   God has BLINDED any and all to use Theology to CO-inspire with Him.  They are ALL blind because THE PATTERN IS: Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [Educated Only] the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Isa 8:19And when they shall say unto you,
        Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,
        and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
                should not a people seek unto their God?
                for the living to the dead

-cantus , ūs, m. id., 2. With instruments, a playing, music: “in nervorum vocumque cantibus,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “citharae,” Hor. C. 3, 1, 20: “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae,” Hor. C. 3, 7, 30:
B. An incantation, charm, magic song, etc.: cantusque artesque magorum. Ov. M. 7, 195; 7, 201: “at cantu commotae Erebi de sedibus imis Umbrae ibant,” Verg. G. 4, 471: “magici,”
-pŏētĭcus , a, um, adj., = poiētikos,
To the law and to the testimony:
        if they speak not according to this word,
        it is because there is no light in them. Isa 8:20
Notice the two GROUPS which is always the meaning of PREDESTINATED purpose.

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
........[1] and to restore the PRESERVED of Israel:
........[2] I will ALSO give thee for a light to the Gentiles,
........[3] THAT thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Isa 49:6

There were 120 Disciples of John who collected the elect remnant. After Jesus sent His SPIRIT to produce WORDS in the upper room, the only Driving purpose was that the those still alive as pilgrims went back to their homes and spread the LIGHT.  Light and SPIRIT have the same meaning. ONLY when Peter stood up with the ELEVEN was available in ORAL form.  Furthermore, Scribes were always at any public event.  They had others ready to offer Copies for Sale immediately.  These pericopes were "paragraphs" or "manuscripts" were faithfully preserved.

Salvation is Yeshuwah! God chooses those who DO NOT repudiate Him by THEIR OWN SINS.

Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee:
........ .[1] and I will PRESERVE thee,
........ .[2] AND give thee for a COVENANT of the people,
........ .[3] to establish the earth, to cause to
................inherit the desolate heritages; Isa 49:8

Rom. 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him?
        I have reserved to myself seven thousand men,
        who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

Gal. 3:11 But that no man is justified by THE LAW in the sight of God,
        it is evident: for,
        The JUST shall live by faith.
Gal. 3:12 And the law is not of faith:
         but, The man that DOETH them shall live in them.
James 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin,
        and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law,
        and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
James 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery,
        said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
James 2:12 So SPEAK ye, and so DO, as they that shall be judged by THE LAW OF LIBERTY
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the WORD, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

CLICK FOR LOGOS BELOW: the Word or Logos is the ACU-cursed Regulative Principle. It outlaws every such as Sorcery or Witchcraft POWERED by any kind of music which Takes People Captive.


James 1:25 But whoso looketh into
THE LAW OF LIBERTY and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

THAT WHICH IS PERFECT BEGAN WHEN EACH INSPIRED WRITER FINISHED THEIR PART.
Gal. 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the CURSE of the law,
        being made a curse for us: for it is written,
        Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Gal. 3:14 THAT the blessing of ABRAHAM
        might come on the GENTILES through Jesus Christ;
        that we might receive
        the PROMISE of the Spirit through FAITH.
BECAUSE YOU CANNOT BE PREDESTINED UNLESS IT IS TO BURN AND AS A GENTILE YOU HAVE NOT BEEN CALLED OR INVITED
Gal. 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal. 3:27 FOR (enim "what is mean is that") as many of you
        as have been BAPTIZED into Christ have PUT ONE Christ.

ĕnim , To corroborate a preceding assertion, like equidem, certe, vero; hence freq. connected with these particles, esp. with vero (v. under B.), truly, certainly, to be sure, indeed, in fact:   To prove or show the grounds of a preceding assertion, To explain a preceding assertion, for instance, namely

Latin:quīcumque.
in every possible way,
under all circumstances. Whoever, whatever, whosoever, whatsoever, every one who, every

g1746. enduo, en-doo΄-o; from 1722 and 1416 (in the sense of sinking into a garment); to invest with clothing (literally or figuratively): — array, clothe (with), endue, have (put) on.

of clothes, put on, “endune khitōna

Matt. 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Matt. 22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither
        not having a wedding garment? [
enduma] And he was speechless.
Matt. 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away,
        and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and GNASHING OF TEETH

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Thera^p-eia   I. of persons, th. tōn theōn service paid to the gods  worship of Apollo Agyieus, E.Ion187;
2. service done to gain favour, paying court,   worshipper, “Apollōnos” Pi.O. 3.16, cf. Pl.Phd.85a 
“Mousaōn “kanakhan [clanging brass, gnashing of teeth, . . theias antiluron mousas”   aulōn sound of flutes, of the lyre,
theias  etheiazon obtained inspiration through ritual A.to be inspired, frenzied

Apollō, Apollon was the god of MELODY: he carried the LYRE to seduce male or female. He carried the Bow to make the strings TWANG to send a SINGING arrow into male or female who did not submit.  He is the only personified SPIRITUS and He was, from Egypt onward, the Leader of the Muses.  His musical worship team were known as LOCUSTS and dirty adulteresses.
2Kings 10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
2Kings 10:22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.

Opposite of the Vestment of Baal.
h3830, leb-oosh΄;  lbush, leb-oosh΄; from 3847; a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphem.) a wife:—apparel, clothed with, clothing, garment, raiment, vestment, vesture.

Matt. 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen
Matt. 22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Matt. 22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
khi^tōn  2. vesture, [phusis sarkōn allognōti peristellousa (sc. psukhas)“ khitōni” Emp.126; “sōma kh. psukhēs” IG14.2241: pl., prosthesei khitōnōn enuloterōn, of the soul
J. AJ 3.7.2. Josephus worn by a priest
St. Matthew xxii., 11--12: "When the King came in to see the guests, he saw there was a man which had not on a wedding-garment,and he said unto him, 'Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding-garment?'
The false teachers are NAKED without a wedding garment because, in the words of Jesus they are OF the World and He doesn't even PRAY for them .

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According to American Baptist Churches USA, by 1790 there were 35 Baptist associations in America and some 560 ministers. 

"After the First Great American Awakening 321 separate  SECTS developed mostly Baptists."

There is a Baptist World Alliance, which includes some 200 Baptist organizations and conventions.

Contrary to all of the lies about "sectarianism" there is not ONE Church of Christ DENOMINATION meaning with  a governing organization.  However, places like ACU work really hard to INSTITUTIONALIZE and therefore no ORGANISM.

Southern Baptists have SECTED OUT and have found the Once-Christian University as the place to fill their coffers.  The NACC or Christian Churches have also REpurposed several to take the mark: The BEAST is Apollyon with the number 666 and he is the LEADER of his musical worship teams. BEAST is also defined as A new style of music and Satyric (perverted) Drama

"About 30 percent of Southern Baptist pastors consider their churches Calvinist, according to a poll last year by SBC-affiliated LifeWay Research, but a much larger number — 60 percent — are concerned “about the impact of Calvinism in our convention.”

Calvinism is already shaping the next generation [NEXGEN at ACU-Pepp;erdine] of Southern Baptist pastors through the influence of R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the SBC’s flagship seminary in Louisville, Ky., and popular charismatic speakers like Minneapolis author John Piper and Seattle’s Mark Driscoll.

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This paper looks at the LIFTED two verses to make Paul and Jesus in His STATE as Holy Spirit liars.
Faith ALONE is the saving and efficacious use of the Word of God, according to Rom. 10 [:91: "If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Furthermore, "Christ is the end of the law that everyone who has faith may be justified" [Rom. 10: 41. Again, in Rom. l [:17], "He through faith is righteous shall live."(4)
Calling on the Name of the Lord in Romans IS BY BAPTISM.
http://pineycom.nationprotect.netMailActs2216.html
It is not possible to be able to read Scripture and just be ignorant. Jesus had Paul warn that THEY ARE LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.
Baptism shall be given to all [only]  those who have learned repentance and amendment of life, and who believe truly that their sins are taken away by Christ, and to all who walk in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and wish to be buried with Him in death, so that they may be resurrected with Him, and to all those who with this significance request it [baptism] of us and demand it for themselves.(22)

The only condition for being baptized is:
Do you believe that Jesus is the CHRIST the Son of the LIVING God?

Those who believe that Jesus WAS GOD IN THE FLESH cannot be baptized and desperately seek what they cannot have.

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These pseudo scholars are not allowed to know.  SPIRIT is figurative or a PARABLE to hide from those who make merchandise of Christ. Spirit always means that God puts His WORDS into the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets and Lastly the MAN Jesus of Nazareth

If you don't quote ALL of Romans 10 you make Paul and ALL Holy Scripture a lie. Romans 10 Cycles all of the STEPS which must rational occur before one ACCEPTED as a Disciple or STUDENT of Christ-all.  ALLEN STANGLIN MOCKS THE "STEPS"

http://pineycom.nationprotect.netAllan.Stanglin.Five.Steps.Salvation.html

We believe that salvation is a gift of God’s grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross (Ephesians 2:8-9). Christ’s death fully accomplished justification through faith and redemption from sin. Christ died in our place (Romans 5:8-9) and bore our sins in His own body (1 Peter 2:24).

Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth [complies] and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth NOT shall be damned.

Believeth not or Apistos defines a TRAITOR or enemy of Christ.  This is one OF the World, Kosmos, Ecumenical or the Kingdom of Satan attacking the Kingdom of Christ. Ecumenical marked a Race of Vipers who would be baptized with WIND and FIRE.  These are Aborigines among which are Lost Spirits God sent Jesus to RESCUE.

The Pharises made long PRAYERS (Hymns in the Greek) in order to STEAL the living of Widows.  Pharisees are Hypocrite meaning rhetoricians, singers or instrument players.

Even more TERMINALLY EVIL is a band of people who boast about INFILTRATING AND DIVERTING the schools paid for by Widows and honest WORKING people.  Jesus would say that they CANNOT be baptized because they do not GLADLY receive the WORD and are SEALED by baptism.  The Word or Logos is God's REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE outlawing anything beyond READING or SPEAKING that which is WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING.

Theology, by definition, repudiate THE FAITH once delivered to the Saints.  Myles Werntz leading ACU's BAPTIST THEOLOGY quotes


Eph. 2:8 For BY grace are ye saved THROUGH faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph. 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

For Christians who are Disciples or STUDENTS only, Ephesians 1 proves that Paul is writing to those ALREADY SAVED.
Second, no "scholar" is allowed to ask: SAVED FROM WHAT?
The first verses of Ephesians 2 shows that we are Saved From the Corruption of NOT-Christian universities.

ACU's Baptist Theology gives itself to Co-inspiri.  Therefore, as a terminal Sin they ADD to Holy Scripture.

ACU Werntz: We believe salvation is received by grace ALONE, through faith ALONE, in Christ alone.
Good works and OBEDIENCE  are results of salvation, not requirements for salvation.

Jesus in the STATE of Holy Spirit guided Paul to say:

Rom. 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
        were baptized into his death?
Rom. 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
        that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
        even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom. 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
        we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom. 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,
         that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Rom. 6:15 What then? shall we sin,
        because we are not under the LAW,
        BUT under GRACE? God forbid.

A CHRISTIAN-DISCIPLE-STUDENT cannot miss the fact that Faith, Grace etc speak of the NEW COVENANT where BAPTISM SAVES

Rom. 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye YIELD yourselves servants to OBEY,
        his servants ye are to whom ye
OBEY; whether of sin unto death, or of OBEDIENCE unto righteousness?
Rom. 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye WERE the servants of sin,
        but ye have
OBEYED from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom. 6:18 BEING THEN made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.


ACU Werntz Due to the greatness, sufficiency, and perfection of Christ’s sacrifice, all those who have truly received Christ as Savior are eternally secure in salvation,

Jesus was sent to seek and translate spirits of LOST SPIRITS who are iN the world but not OF the world as Jesus was not OF this world.

Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his WORD were BAPTIZED:
        and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

The MAN Jesus of Nazareth made the WORD as God communicates both visible and audible.  The INFILTRATED people of ACU deny the WORD or Logos as God's Regulative Principle which marks human theology as ANTI Christian

Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized:
        and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

LOGOS God is WORD in the same sense that He is SPIRIT or LIFE or LIGHT.
Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose OPPOSITE -poiκsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiκtikκ, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiκmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs” 2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

http://pineycom.nationprotect.netDocHesTheog.html
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
        wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
        we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
        but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
            ...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
                but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots]  Theoc.2.15

The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen as sorcerers in Revelation 18.
ACU Werntz kept by God’s power, secured and sealed in Christ forever (John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38-39; Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 Peter 1:5; Jude 24). Just as salvation cannot be earned by good works, neither does it need good works to be maintained or sustained. Good works and changed lives are the inevitable results of salvation (James 2).
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Salvation, Love and Faith is produced by the Grace WHO has appeared to teach us. Paul excludes any of our "works" which are specificially defined as religious ceremonies where the Word of Faith is replaced by songs and sermons composed by humans believing that what they have to say or act out is more important than the Words of Christ in the apostles and prophets. Both Jews and Gentiles were dead in their sins specificially because their worship was the worship of the Prince of the Power of the Air: the Jews had been abandoned to worhship the Starry host.

ACU Werntz T - Total Depravity

That means simply MAN is DEAD. The Bible says that you and I are dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1-6) unless we are born again. DEAD!!! More than that, the man or woman who is dead in sin hates God, and his "carnal mind" is "enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7). His will is stubbornly steeled against God. This Biblical idea changes a lot of modern talk about salvation.

Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Because of Musical Idolatry God turned the Israelites over to worship the starry host (Acts 7 etc). The "play" they engaged in was the musical idolatry of the Egyptian triad imaged by Apis the golden calf.

The starry host was "Sabazianism" and being a goyim or national religion was called "demonism" by Paul speaking of Mount Sinai.

RELIGIONISTS OUTSIDE OF GOD'S GRACE

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past YOU walked according to the course of this world,
        according to the prince of the power of the air,
       
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Kosmos , ho,  natgural, II.rnament, decoration, esp. of women; “hieros k.” OGI90.40 (Rosetta, ii B. C.): pl., ornaments, A.Ag.1271; “hoi peri to sōma k.” Isoc.2.32: metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets, Id.9.9 (pl.), Arist.Rh.1408a14, Po.1457b2, 1458a33; hadumelē k. keladein to sing sweet songs of praise, Pi.O.11 (10).13 (s.v.l.).
Hēdu^-melēs , Dor. had- , Aeol. ad- , es,
A. sweet-singing, “khelidoi” Anacr.67, cf. Sapph.122(Comp.), Pi.N.2.25; sweet-sounding, “xoana” S.Fr.238, etc.: poet. fem., “hēdumeleia surigx” Nonn.D.29.287.
Surigx , iggos, ,
2. cat-call, whistle, hiss, as in theatres, Id.Lg.700c; cf. “surizō” 11.2, surigmos:—the last part of the nomos Puthikos was called surigges, prob. because it imitated the dying hisses of the serpent Pytho, Str.9.3.10.
3. mouthpiece of the aulos

This Judas bag is from the Greek:

Glosokomon (g1101) gloce-sok'-om-on; from 1100 (speaking in tongues) and the base of 2889; prop. a case to keep mouthpieces of wind-instruments in, i.e. (by extens.) a casket or (spec.) purse: - bag.

It is made up of two words:

1. Glossa (from Strong's g1100) means "speaking in tongues" especially an unacquired one.

2. Kosmos (g2889) means the "orderly arrangement" or the "adorning" world. this is derived from (g2864 or Komizo which means "to carry off."

Kosmos (g2889) kos'-mos; prob. from the base of 2865; orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration; by impl. the world (in a wide or narrow sense, includ. its inhab., lit. or fig. [mor.]): - adorning, world.

"Yet, through all there was an overarching harmony. The Greek word cosmos which we translate by universe originally meant beauty and harmony.

The Pythagoreans discovered mathematical formulae for the musical harmonies. They believed in the harmony of the sounds produced by the movement of the stars.

Therefore, they spoke of cosmic harmony of the spheres, each of which has a different sound, but all together creating a harmonious sound. If you delete the half-poetic, mythological elements from such ideas, then you can say that they had a universal, ecstatic interpretation of reality." (Tillich, Paul, A History of Christian Thought, Touchstone, p. 333).

Kosmocrator (g2888) kos-mok-rat'-ore; from 2889 and 2902; a world-ruler, an epithet of Satan: - ruler.

Kraeteo (g2902) krat-eh'-o; from 2904; to use strength, i.e. seize or retain (lit. or fig.): - hold (by, fast), keep, lay hand (hold) on, obtain, retain, take (by).

Rulers of the darkness of this world (Gk: Kosmokrator 2888) meaning "holders of this world, or Lord of the world. This is used of Satan and his angels (John 12:31; 2 Corinthians 4:4).

Pind. O. 11 There is a time when men's need for winds is the greatest, and a time for waters from the sky, the rainy offspring of clouds. But when anyone is victorious through his toil, then honey-voiced odes [5] become the foundation for future fame, and a faithful pledge for great deeds of excellence. This praise is dedicated to Olympian victors, without stint. My tongue wants to foster such themes; [10] but it is by the gift of a god that a man flourishes with a skillful mind, as with anything else. For the present rest assured, Hagesidamus son of Archestratus: for the sake of your boxing victory, I shall loudly sing a sweet song, an adornment for your garland of golden olive, [15] while I honor the race of the Western Locrians. There, Muses, join in the victory-song; I shall pledge my word to you that we will find there a race that does not repel the stranger, or is inexperienced in fine deeds, but one that is wise and warlike too. For [20] neither the fiery fox nor loud-roaring lions change their nature.

4.  men in general, “phanerōson [FAMOUS] seauton k.” Ev.Jo.7.4, cf. 12.19; esp. of the world as estranged from God by sin, ib.16.20, 17.9, al., 1 Ep.Cor. 1.21, etc.
1 Corinthians 1:21 epeidē gar en sophia tou theou ouk egnō ho kosmos dia tēs sophias ton theon, eudokēsen ho theos dia tēs mōrias tou kērugmatos sōsai tous pisteuontas.

1 Corinthians 1.21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

The wisdom of the Kosmos is:
Sophia , A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art
Hephaestus and Athena, Pl.Prt.32 1d; of Daedalus and Palamedes, X.Mem.4.2.33, cf. 1.4.2; in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, divination
speculative wisdom, EN

Anything you can make or compose: poieō
Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn Hellēsi” Id.2.53; p. Phaidran, Saturous, Ar.Th.153, 157; p. kōmōdian, tragōdian, etc., Pl.Smp.223d; “palinōdian” Isoc.10.64, Pl.Phdr.243b, etc.; “poiēmata” Id.Phd.60d: abs., write poetry, write as a poet,
Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written,
        That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain,
        shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luke 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them:
        for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Luke 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him,
        Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written,
        Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
apeith-eia , , A. disobedience, X.Mem.3.5.5, D.H.9.41, Arr. Epict.3.24.24; “huioi tēs apeitheias” Ep.Eph.5.7; later apeithia , , BGU 747ii14 (ii A.D.), etc., Gloss

apeith-eō , Att. form of api^theō (though even Trag. preferred apisteō, q.v. 11),
A. to be disobedient, refuse compliance, A.Ag.1049; opp. peithomai, Pl.Phdr.271b: freq. c. dat., disobey, “ouk apeithēsas theō” E.Or.31; “a. hama nomō kai theō” Pl.Lg.741d, etc.; ta megala a. tini in great matters, Id.R.538b; a. tais enekhurasiais not to abide by them, Id.Lg.949d: later c. gen., “psaphismatos” GDI3705.111 (Cos); “entolōn” LXXJo.5.6.
2. of animals, X.Cyr. 7.5.62; of ships, “tois oiaxin a.” D.S.13.46.
3. of a woman, refuse compliance,
Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Ephesians 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words:
        for because of these things cometh the wrath
        of God upon the children of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
Ephesians 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness,
        but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Ephesians 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
        but rather reprove them.
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world,
        and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
        but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Believeth not is the Greek:
Apistos , on,
I. Pass., not to be trusted, and so:
1. of persons and their acts, not trusty, faithless untrustworthy, groundless confidence, Th.1.120; shifty, unreliable, Pl.Lg.775d.
II. Act., mistrustful, incredulous, suspicious, “thumos de toi aien a.” Od.14.150; “ōta . . apistotera ophthalmōn” less credulous, Hdt.1.8; a. pros Philippon distrustful towards him, D.19.27; a. ei . . sautō you do not believe what you say yourself, 
b. in NT, unbelieving, 1 Ep.Cor.6.6, al.
2. disobedient, disloyal, 
III. Adv. apistōs:
1. Pass., beyond belief, “a. epi to muthōdes eknenikēkota” Th. 1.21;  
2. Act., distrustfully, suspiciously, Th.3.83; “a. tina diatheinai” D.20.22.
b. treacherously, Ph.1.516.

Only those who have accepted Grace and been baptized can be called brothers.

1 Corinthians [6] But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

If "a" spirit tells you to use the Levites as the pattern for performing religious OBSERVATIONS because that is the way to make the kingdom of God come in his church you can understand that it is a spirit of disobedience.

Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Ep.4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Eph 6: 12 "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

We do NOT wrestle against flesh and blood:

[12] diabolou: hoti ouk estin hκmin palκ pros haima kai sarka, alla pros tas archas, pros tas exousias, pros tous kosmokratoras touskotous toutou, pros ta pneumatika tκs ponκrias en tois epouraniois


Pale (g3823) pal'-ay; from pallo, (to vibrate; another form for 906); wrestling: - / wrestle

G906 ballō bal'-lo A primary verb; to throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense):arise, cast (out), X dung, lay, lie, pour, put (up), send, strike, throw (down), thrust. Compare G4496 .

Pallτ, poise, sway a missile before it is thrown, sway, brandish, she drove it furiously, tripped on the shield-rim, quiver, leap, esp. in fear, II. Pass., swing, dash oneself, Pi.N.5.21; vibrate, of strings, Pl.Phd.94c (psalloito ap. Stob.); skirtκtikon kai pallomenon to neon (etym. of Pallas) Corn.ND20, cf. Pl.Cra. 407a. III. intr., leap, bound, E.El.435, Ar.Lys.1304 (lyr.); [p. 1294] quiver, quake, phrena deimati pallτn S.OT153 (lyr.); dash along, of horses, E.El.477 (lyr.).
Pi.N.5.21   Pindar, Nemean 5.

2 Chronicles 29 speaks of Hezekiah's plague stopping animal slaughter in Jerusalem. This was a political move because Hezekiah was king and the Levites were under the King and commanders of the army.

They "Soothsayed" accompanied with the musical instruments ordained by David for making war.  In Revelation 18 they performed "Sorcery" accompanied with musical instruments.  God knew that they offered the sacrifices to Him but THEY ate the meat: all sacrificial systems were prompted by evil men under a spirit of flesh and blood lust.

ACU Werntz Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh,
        fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind;
        and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

The Jews burned infants just before Hezekiah and Just after Him: and yet all modern musical idolatry uses this event as their pattern. Christ in the prophets calls them liars and blasphemers because He said that God did not command sacrices or burnt offering. To think so proves that people have never read the Old Testament.

Gregory Nazianzen Oration on the Holy Lights.

Gregory--like all readers of the Old Testament--understood that God turned the Israelites over to worship the starry host and the rituals, like those of Greece etal., were absurd. No true Christian would tell you that God commanded you to imitate musical instruments of the Levites who were the chief guards and executioners of anyone who came close to the God-Quarantined sacrificial system.

As it was at Mount Sinai, so it is in the masses of pseudo worship which is a modern system of feudalism.

Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Sophis-tκs , ou, ho, master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, meletan sophistais prosbalon Pi.I.5(4).28 , cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, sophistκs . . parapaiτn chelun A.Fr.314 , cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistκi Thrκiki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with mod

II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money, such as Prodicus, Gorgias, Protagoras, a quibbler, cheat,  a RHETORICIAN as the primary meaning of a HYPOCRITE.

hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” A sophist, serpent, makes MUSICAL MELODY with a congregation AS a harp and cannot grasp that IN THE HEART is a place.

Gregory Nazianzen Oration XXXIX speaks of the slaughter of innocent animals "made dumb before the slaughter" which is THE meaning of music derivedfrom mystery.

"II. Therefore listen to the Voice of God, which sounds so exceeding clearly to me, who am both disciple and master of these mysteries, as would to God it may sound to you;

I Am The Light Of The World. Therefore approach ye to Him and be enlightened, and let not your faces be ashamed, being signed with the true Light. It is a season of new birth, let us be born again. It is a time of reformation, let us receive again the first Adam. Let us not remain what we are, but let us become what we once were. The Light Shineth In Darkness, in this life and in the flesh, and is chased by the darkness, but is not overtaken by it:-I mean the adverse power leaping up in its shamelessness against the visible Adam, but encountering God and being defeated;-in order that we, putting away the darkness, may draw near to the Light, and may then become perfect Light, the children of perfect Light. See the grace of this Day; see the power of this mystery. Are you not lifted up from the earth? Are you not clearly placed on high, being exalted by our voice and meditation? and you will be placed much higher when the Word shall have prospered the course of my words.

III. Is there any such among the shadowy purifications of the Law, aiding as it did with temporary sprinklings, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean;

or do the gentiles celebrate any such thing in their mysteries, every ceremony and mystery of which to me is nonsense, and a dark invention of demons, and a figment of an unhappy mind, aided by time, and hidden by fable?

For what they worship as true, they veil as mythical. But if these things are true, they ought not to be called myths, but to be proved not to be shameful; and if they are false, they ought not to be objects of wonder; nor ought people so inconsiderately to hold the most contrary opinions about the same thing, 
        as if they were playing in the market-place with boys or really ill-disposed men,
        not engaged in discussion with men of sense,
        and worshippers of the Word, though despisers of this artificial plausibility.

"This is the meaning of their persecution of the creature. For this God's Image was outraged; and as we did not like to keep the Commandments, we were given over to the independence of our error. And as we erred we were disgraced by the objects of our worship. For there was not only this calamity, that we who were made for good works  to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be,
        were turned into a den of all sorts of passions,
        which cruelly devour and consume the inner man;

but there was this further evil, that man actually made gods the advocates of his passions,
so that sin might be reckoned not only irresponsible, but even divine,
        taking refuge in the objects of his worship as his apology.

VII. Well, let these things be the amusement of the children of the Greeks and of the demons to whom their folly is due, who turn aside the honour of God to themselves,

Blasphemy is defined in Jeremiah 23 by Christ as "saying that God commanded something when God did not command it.

                26 Ibid. i. 28.

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
        God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Christ warned that these horrors were intended to keep the people's minds off the Word of God.
Jeremiah 23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

Baptism is a work of Christ performed on those who believe and wish to be enrolled as a Disciple of Christ: like cleansing the vessels in the temple, God must cleanse your spirit so that He will dwell in  it by faith when we let Jesus be the only Teacher.

Those who were baptized into Christ were "washed with water INTO the Word" or into the school of Jesus Christ. For those who have been added to His earthly kingdom by Jesus Christ have put on Christ and are therefore immune to the WORLD.

Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins,
        hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together,
            and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

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Only those who became disciples of Christ by baptism and ongoing teaching are called Christians. A Christian is a disciple of Christ. Jesus Christ is still in Holy Spirit form and continues to speak directly to us when we read and teach what He commanded to be taught.

Our task is to acquire Spiritual Knowledge: anything which substitutes for PREACHING the Word by READING the word and discussing it is of the Devi whom, says Jesus, speaks on his own when Christ in Isaiah 58 outlawed seeking pleasure and speaking your own words.

Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,
        and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will
        in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,
        being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power,
        unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father,
        which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
        and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
        even the forgiveness of sins:

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Baptism and the Lord's Supper is Christ's way to show how we are saved by grace through faith.

Ephesians 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

27 Eph. ii. 10; Phil. i. 11.

This passages is most often used to reject the direct command to be baptized as a way to be saved FROM that Crooked Race.  It is then used to prove that disciples can do anything they wish and the wish is to conduct ceremonial legalism as a way to make people forget God.  However, the WORKS of ceremonialism which usually causes people to boast include anything beyond PREACHING the Word by READING and discussing the Word: we have no theatrical works to bring to God.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith;
        and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Titus 2:11 For the [1] grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Titus 2:12
[2] Teaching us that,
Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
[3] denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
[4] we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Titus 2:14
[5] Who gave himself for us,
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them Repent,
[6] that he might redeem us from all iniquity, [Lawlesness]
      Lutron redeem, Luo lavo , cleanse or wash, bathe,
      lave. 
louτpurify, tina ek tτn hamartiτn  
Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins,  
Redemption or Remission happens ONLY after BAPTISM
even the forgiveness of sins:
        [7] and purify unto himself a peculiar people,
                zealous of good works.
and ye shall receive the gift of A holy spirit

THOSE WHO FIGHT BAPTISM REJECT GRACE: 

Ephesians 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it
        with the washing of water by [into] the word,
        ....by [In Verbo, En, Eis, into a school] the word,
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness
        which we have done,  [fulfil the Law]
        but according to his mercy he saved us,
        by the washing of regeneration,
        and renewing of the Holy Spirit; [our spirit needs renewing]
When the Jews were turned over to worship the starry host God gave them The Book of The Law which they had to perform.  They performed rituals BELIEVING that they made them righteous. The use of the warrior Levites was so appealing that preachers claim that "a" spirit said that God COMMANDED instrumental praise in his church.  All of the rituals under the Monarchy were identical to the practices of the Egyptians, Canaanites and Babylonians of their time and place.

Baptism and being a Disciple of Christ is not WORKS of righteousness because it confesses that we know nothing of spiritual value unless God reveals it to us.  Excluding rhetoric, singing, playing instruments, dancing and drama PROVES that people think they have something of value to God: He owns all of the cattle on a thousand hills: why would one think they could gain God's good will by burning up one of His creatures?

DO denies grace because it trusts that that their imagination is necessary because our culture has changed from the time of Jesus Christ: postmodernism denies that the message of Christ in the prophets and apostles have any authority for their superior time and place. Baptism is the form or anti-tupos of the death, burial and resurrecting of Jesus.  Tupos is "a pattern capable of being imitated." Anti means instead of: Grace lets us be baptized into Christ to put on Christ instead of dying on the cross for our own sins.

Preaching the Word by reading and discussing "that which is written for our learning" is the MARK to guard us against people who MAKE UP their own songs and sermons.
Poieō , A. make, produce, first of something material, as manufactures, works of art,  in Hom. freq. of building, the horns of which are made into the sides of the lyre,
4.  after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea
epea [1. song or lay accompanied by  Music joined with ergon and pragma
IV. iambeia, dithuramboi, etc., “rhaptōn epeōn aoidoi” Pi.N.2.2; “epea te poiein pros luran t' aeidein” Theoc.Ep.21.6 ; “nikēsas epos” IG3.1020 ; poētēs epōn
Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn Hellēsi” Id.2.53; p. Phaidran, Saturous, Ar.Th.153, 157; p. kōmōdian, tragōdian, etc., Pl.Smp.223d; “palinōdian” Isoc.10.64, Pl.Phdr.243b, etc.; “poiēmata” Id.Phd.60d: abs., write poetry, write as a poet, “orthōs p.” Hdt.3.38; “en toisi epesi p.” Id.4.16, cf. Pl.Ion534b: folld. by a quotation, “epoēsas pote . .” Ar.Th.193; “eis tina” Pl.Phd.61b; “peri theōn” Id.R.383a, etc.
b.  represent in poetry, “Homēron Akhillea pepoiēkenai
c.  describe in verse, “theon en epesin” Pl.R.379a; epoiēsa muthous tous Aisōpou put them into verse, Id.Phd. 61b; “muthon” Lycurg.100.
3. of sacrifices, festivals, etc., celebrate, p. sabbata observe the Sabbath, LXXEx.31.16; p. taphas,
DOING on your own is pure legalism. Like the Monarchy after which it is patterned, it has absolutely no effect on the human spirit. That is because you cannot have the kingdom or Jesus Christ in your presence if you perform religious ceremonies thinking that you can manifest the kingdom. 
The Kingdom of God does not come to religious OBSERVATIONS. Jesus will be outside the camps suffering reproaches from all of those DOING their own acts inside the gates.  He invites only the twos and threes but the gospel invitation is "Come rest and learn of ME."

Watch out: Violent men try to take the kingdom by violence.

We are saved by faith and NOT religious observances or ACTS of religious rituals.
  The only way to grow in faith is through the Word which Grace-personified teaches us.

Faith
comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.  The only role of the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness was to Rest, Read and Rehearse or discuss the Word of God. That definition never changed, was endorsed by Jesus and commanded in what Paul calls a synagogue "of that which is written for our learning." The Campbells called Church "A School of Christ" and worship as "reading and musing the Word of God."

Irenaeus Apostolic Preaching: 3. Now, that we may not suffer ought of this kind, we must needs hold the rule of the faith without deviation, and do the commandments of God, believing in God and fearing Him as Lord and loving Him as Father. Now this doing is produced |72 by faith: for Isaiah says: If ye believe not, neither shall ye understand. [10. Isa. vii. 9 ]
        And faith is produced by the truth; for faith rests on things that truly are.
For in things that are, as they are, we believe; and believing in things that are, as they ever are, we keep firm our confidence in them.

Since then faith is the perpetuation of our salvation, we must needs bestow much pains on the maintenance thereof, in order that we may have a true comprehension of the things that are. Now faith occasions this for us; even as the Elders, the disciples of the Apostles, have handed down to us.

First of all it bids us bear in mind that we have received baptism for the remission of sins, in the name of God the Father, and in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was incarnate and died and rose again, and in the Holy Spirit of God. And that this baptism is the seal of eternal life, and is the new birth and is over all things that are made, and all things are put under Him |73 and all the things that are put under Him are made His own; for God is not ruler and Lord over the things of another, but over His own; and all things are God's; and therefore God is Almighty, and all things are of God. unto God, that we should no longer be the sons of mortal men, but of the eternal and perpetual God; and that what is everlasting and continuing is made God;

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
        hath in every city
        them that preach him,
        being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

If people spend as much time looking up the word "read" as they do the word "sing" they would understand why God outlawed "seeking your own pleasure" or even "speaking your own words."

The ONLY command throughout the Bible is to READ and discuss the Word: We are saved BY FAITH and God in Christ directly commanded the ONLY "act" which adds faith which saves us.

However, there may not be a single religious institution which adds salvation or "good mental or spiritual health" by following the direct command, approved examples and necessary inference if you understand that a Disciple goes to the School of Jesus Christ: specificially the prophets and apostles you will understand that:

Ephesians 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

There is nothing you can do in the Church or Ekklesia or School of Christ except Teach and Learn "that which is written for our learning." ANYTHING you do to expend ENERGY thinking you can AID Christ in the Prophets or Apostles is defined as WORKS.  Because you DO pretending that is helps you are BOASTING that your songs and sermos can replace those God in Christ prepared.

The WORKS words define ANY of those things you think can AID the assembly especially if you also get paid for replacing the Word.

Rhetoricians who pontificate and speak in loud assertive language is a man doing WORKS in a boasting or theatrical way.  Jesus called him a hypocrite by pointing to Ezekiel 33 which names people of NO EFFECT as rhetoricians, singers and instrument players.

"The Kingdom of God does no come with religious observances: Salvation cannot be aided by the WORKS of human hands: raising, waving, picking or clapping.  What DOES NOT help?


We can't say that these uses are all that Paul had in mind, but if YOU have in mind any works of human hands they this is condemned.
Ergon , First, doing work is coming near any kind of religious sacrifices. That included the following TASKS by which people attempt to please the gods:
epoikhomai , ; theous trapezais e. draw near to the gods with sacrificial feasts, Pi.O.3.40 ; with the muses, song of lyre and the cry of the flutes with the arrangement of words...from which the god fated songs come often to men.
2. go round, visit in succession, of one who hands round wine, autoisin tham' epōkheto “oinokhoeuōn” Od.1.143

Epoikhomai  Hom. Il. 6.466. go over or ply one's task, with labour,
490] Nay, go thou to the house and busy thyself with thine own tasks, the loom and the distaff, and bid thy handmaids ply their work: but war shall be for men, for all, but most of all for me

Epoikhomai  Hom. Od. 17.336 Then Odysseus of many wiles answered him, and said, “King Zeus, grant, I pray thee, that Telemachus may be blest among men, [355] and may have all that his heart desires.” He spoke, and took the mess in both his hands and set it down there before his feet on his miserable wallet.
        Then he ate so long as the minstrel sang in the halls.
        But when he had dined and the divine minstrel was ceasing to sing,
        [360] the wooers broke into uproar throughout the halls;
but Athena drew close to the side of Odysseus, son of Laertes, and roused him to go among the wooers and gather bits of bread, and learn which of them were righteous and which lawless

Epoikhomai  Hom. Od. 1.325 Then wise Telemachus answered her: “My mother, why dost thou begrudge the good minstrel to give pleasure in whatever way his heart is moved? It is not minstrels that are to blame, but Zeus, I ween, is to blame, who gives to men that live by toil, to each one as he will. [350] With this man no one can be wroth if he sings of the evil doom of the Danaans; for men praise that song the most which comes the newest to their ears. For thyself, let thy heart and soul endure to listen; for not Odysseus alone lost [355] in Troy the day of his return, but many others likewise perished.
        Nay, go to thy chamber, and busy thyself with thine own tasks, the loom and the distaff,
        and bid thy handmaids ply their tasks; but speech shall be for men,
        for all, but most of all for me; since mine is the authority in the house.
“Euergetan” Id.P.2.24Claiming to be a benefactor of kings, a saviour sōtēr preserver from disease, ills, hurt, 2. epith. of Zeus, to whom persons after a safe voyage offered sacrifice, b. epith. of other gods, as of Apollo, Id.Ag.512, etc.; of Hermes, Id.Ch.2; of Asclepios
4. in LXX and NT, applied to God, LXX De.32.15, al., 1 Ep.Ti.1.1, al.; to Christ, Ev.Luc.2.11, al.

2.
result of work, profit or interest, ergon [khrēmatōn] interest or profit on money, Is.11.42, cf. D.27.10. generally, property, wealth, possessions, “theos d' epi ergon aexē”
4. he. poieisthai ti to make a matter one's business, attend to it, Od.14.65, cf. 15.372.

ergō, Opposite. logōs 

Works are Opposite to Logos or the Word: Logos is the opposite of poetry or music.
Mēkha^n-ē , 3. theatrical machine by which gods, etc., were made to appear in the air, Pl.Cra.425d, Clit.407a; “airein m.” I. an art, craft,
Plat. Crat. 425d Socrates
It will, I imagine, seem ridiculous that things are made manifest through imitation in letters and syllables; nevertheless it cannot be otherwise. For there is no better theory upon which we can base the truth of the earliest names, unless you think we had better follow the example of the tragic poets, who, when they are in a dilemma, have recourse to the introduction of gods on machines. So we may get out of trouble by saying that the gods gave the earliest names, and therefore they are right.
Ergon. he. poieisthai ti to make a matter one's business, attend to it, Od.14.65, cf. 15.372.
ergō, opp.
logōs  Works are Opposite to Logos or the Word: Logos is the opposite of poetry or music.


A WORK is anything you do based on your own ability or presumed ability.
Poieō , A. make, produce, first of something material, as manufactures, works of art,  in Hom. freq. of building, the horns of which are made into the sides of the lyre,
4.  after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea
epea [1. song or lay accompanied by  Music joined with ergon and pragma
IV. iambeia, dithuramboi, etc., “rhaptōn epeōn aoidoi” Pi.N.2.2; “epea te poiein pros luran t' aeidein” Theoc.Ep.21.6 ; “nikēsas epos” IG3.1020 ; poētēs epōn
Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn Hellēsi” Id.2.53; p. Phaidran, Saturous, Ar.Th.153, 157; p. kōmōdian, tragōdian, etc., Pl.Smp.223d; “palinōdian” Isoc.10.64, Pl.Phdr.243b, etc.; “poiēmata” Id.Phd.60d: abs., write poetry, write as a poet, “orthōs p.” Hdt.3.38; “en toisi epesi p.” Id.4.16, cf. Pl.Ion534b: folld. by a quotation, “epoēsas pote . .” Ar.Th.193; “eis tina” Pl.Phd.61b; “peri theōn” Id.R.383a, etc.
b.  represent in poetry, “Homēron Akhillea pepoiēkenai
c.  describe in verse, “theon en epesin” Pl.R.379a; epoiēsa muthous tous Aisōpou put them into verse, Id.Phd. 61b; “muthon” Lycurg.100.
3. of sacrifices, festivals, etc., celebrate, p. sabbata observe the Sabbath, LXXEx.31.16; p. taphas,
Ergon “erga Kuprogenous” Sol.26 ; “Aphroditēs” h.Ven.1 ; also “teknōn es e.”
Tekhn-ē , , (tektōn)
A. art, skill, cunning of hand 3. way, manner, or means whereby a thing is gained, without any definite sense of art or craftto learn a thing professionally.

John calls the TECHNE including singers and instrument players "sorcerers" in Revelation 18:22-21.

Tektōn  of poets, tektones sophoi (sc. epeōn) Id.P.3.113; “tektones eupalamōn humnōn” 2. skilfully wrought, “humnoi”
Sophos A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238 also en oiōnois, kithara, E. IT662, 1238 (
Ergon 4. deed, action, “erg' andrōn te theōn te” Od.1.338 ; “theskela e. Trōōn” Il.3.130
Theskelos  A. set in motion by God (kellō), and so marvellous, wondrous, always of things, th. erga deeds or works of wonder, Il.3.130, Od.11.610; “theskela eidōs” taken by later poets as,= God-inspired (keleuō Hermēs”
Ergazomai Ergazomai II. trans., work at, make, erga kluta, of Athena, Od. 20.72, cf. 22.422 ; agalmata, humnous, Pi.N.5.1,I.2.46b. perform rites, “ta hiera e.” 1 Ep.Cor.9.13Surigx Aniatous”

5. work at, practise, mousikēn, tekhnas, etc., Pl.Phd.60e, R.374a, etc.; “epistēmas” X.Oec.1.7; aretēn kai sōphrosunēn v.l. in Isoc.13.6 ; dikaiosunēn, anomian, Act.Ap.10.35, Ev.Matt.7.23.
Plat. Phaedo 60e They were something like this. The same dream came to me often in my past life, sometimes in one form and sometimes in another, but always saying the same thing: 'Socrates,' it said, 'make music and work at it.' And I formerly thought it was urging and encouraging me

A.
Surigx , iggos, , A. shepherd's pipe, Panspipe, “aulōn suriggōn t' enopē” Il.10.13; “nomēes terpomenoi surigxi” 18.526; “suriggōn enopē” h.Merc.512; “hupo ligurōn suriggōn hiesan audēn” Hes.Sc.278; “ou molpan suriggos ekhōn” S.Ph.213 (lyr.); kalaminē s. Ar.Fr.719; “kat' agrous tois nomeusi surigx an tis eiē” Pl.R.399d.
2. cat-call, whistle, hiss, as in theatres, Id.Lg.700c; cf. “surizō” 11.2, surigmos:—the last part of the nomos Puthikos was called surigges, prob. because it imitated the dying hisses of the serpent Pytho, Str.9.3.10.
3. mouthpiece of the aulos,  [Carried in Judas' bag attached to a flute case]

B.
ania_tos 2. of persons, incurable, incorrigible, Pl.R.410a, Grg.526b; “
II. Act., a. metanoia unavailing repentance, Antipho 2.4.12.
Only very simple music is allowed in these texts. Musicians are advised to engage in gymnatics.
Organon defines the TOOLS or MACHINES people use in work as shown by various instruments above.
Organon , to, (ergon, erdō offer a sacrifice) A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing, S.Tr.905, engine of war, 3. musical instrument, ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ;
aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c,
“met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn”  Jubal's "organ" was handled "without authority."

Orga^n-ikos , metaph., ho o. eis plēthē logos speech which is brought to bear on the mob,
    Plu.Cat.Mi.4 ; of musicians, practical, OPPOSITE. logiko
    By way of instruments, Arist.EN1099b28; “-kōteron” making more use of instruments,  “to kinoun o.”
logi^k-os , ē, on, (logos) A. of or for speaking or speech, merē l. the organs of speech, Plu.Cor.38: logikē, , speech, OPPOSITE mousikē,
but also, logical, l. sullogismoi, OPPOSITE. rhētorikoi, Rh.1355a13.
WORKS: leaves us out of the picture except to be Disciples of Christ teaching what He commanded to be Taught. No, He doesn't need to tell disciples not to bring their rhetorician, singers, instrument players or actors to BIBLE CLASS: He even supplies the texbook to MARK those who are not disciples.

All preaching of self-composed sermons, singing, clapping, playing instruments or performing drama ARE

Paul teaches the same things to all of the churches and DEMANDS that the Epistles be READ.  Knowledge does not come from songs and sermons composed as a WORK for which people are PAID. That's called "corrupting the Word" or "selling learning at retail."
Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love
        may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Paul says nothing about doing ACTS which people believe will work some magic or make God think that you are WORKING for Him.
Philippians 1:10 That ye may approve things that are excellent;
        that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
Philippians 1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness,
        which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; [Tino repay]
        and some also of good will:
Philippians 1:16 The one preach Christ of contention,
        not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds

Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
        Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
kaukh-aomai , speak loud, be loud-tongued, “k. para kairon” Pi.O.9.38,
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
       
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Para-dosis , eōs, , A. handing down, bequeathing, transmission,
2. transmission of legends, doctrines, etc., tradition, “didaskalia kai p.” Pl.Lg.803a;
3. that which is handed down or bequeathed, tradition, doctrine, teaching, “ p. tōn presbuterōn” Ev.Matt.15.2, Ev.Marc.7.3, etc.

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
        All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew 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:
Matthew 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.

The Spirit of Christ ordained the nature of the church, ekklesia or synagogue first in the wilderness. While the prophets define the entire monarchy period as evil with no spiritual redeeming values, in Isaiah Christ defined the promised rest -- Pauo in Greek -- from the laded burden and the burden laders.

Ephesians 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

The Jews excluded the Gentiles and gladly boasted of shedding their blood rather than being a blessing under the Abrahamic Covenant of Grace.

Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ,
        being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,
        and strangers from the covenants of promise,
        having no hope, and without God in the world:

That was the view of the Jews: that was not true. The Gentiles were a law unto themselves and were not subject to the Law of Moses.  However, the Law of Moses was given to protect the weak from the strong elite of Civil-Military-Clergy whom Christ in the prophets calls parasites and robbers.

However, the WALL was errected by the Jews and the task of Jesus was to put down the Monarchy which had been abandoned to worship the starry host. Christ in the prophets says that God did not comand the sacrifices or anything involved with the kings whom God "gave in His anger."

Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one,
        and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity,
        even the law of commandments contained in ordinances;
        for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

Because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai God turned the nation over to worship the starry host. The Levites volunteered to execute 3,000 of their brethren for this offense. Because God had abandoned them in fact, He commanded that the Levites stand between the people and any holy thing or place: if you came too close they would execute you. Their music-led system was a shadow, skia or wholly erroneous system: Christ calls it their covenant with death.

Ephesians 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross,
       
having slain the enmity thereby:

Modern priestcraft uses this system as their authority and musicians play the role of the Levites: they in truth intend to keep any of the "commoners" away from the performance area. There is enmity even when you hire a person to teach the congregation when elders are not "apt."

Ephesians 2:17 And came and preached peace
        to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power,
         after that the Holy SPIRIT is come upon you:
        and ye shall be WITNESS unto me both in Jerusalem,
        and in all Judaea, and in Samaria,
        AND unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Ephesians 2:18 For hrough him we BOTH have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Jesus promised "another" or different in some respects and then said "I" will come to you. In 1 John 2 the name of that Comforter Spirit:

1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
        And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
        Jesus Christ the righteous:

1John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins:
        and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him,
         and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word,
        in him verily is the love of God perfected:
         hereby know we that we are in him.
1John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him
ought himself also so to walk,
        even as he walked
.


Jesus of Nazareth in His "changed" post-resurrected state is Holy Spirit.

1Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved,
        and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God,
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the man Christ Jesus;
1Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Love and Faith is not perfected by religious observations nor by the works of human hands. There is nothing in the Chriat-ordained synagogue from the wilderness onward but to be a disciple of Christ: they way to know and show that you are a disciple of Christ is to "speak that which is written for our lerning."

Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
         but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Jesus Christ added to His church those who were being baptized to receive A holy personal spirit in Acts 2.  The house of God is the Church of Christ: its role is defined solely as teaching what Christ commanded to be taught through the Prophets and Apostles.  Peter left a written memory of this apostolic eye and ear-witness and warned that anyone who "further expounded" it was a false teacher.

The Jews were also under bondage to that "crooked race."  When they are saved they are built up, edified or educated not by the kings and priests and levites but:

Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
        Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

Ephesians 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.


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