ANSWER: “A
BAPTIST WHO FOLLOWS JESUS”
EXPLANATION:
ARE THESE
BAPTISTS SAVED?
I don’t
know.
ARE THESE
BAPTISTS CHRISTIANS?
I don’t
know.
WHY DO YOU
CALL THEM 8TH DAY ADVENTISTS?
They
follow Jesus and worship on Sunday.
WHAT IS A 7TH
DAY ADVENTIST?
They
follow Jesus and worship on Saturday
IS THAT
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE?
No –
although Baptists profess to be born into the
kingdom of God.
DO
BAPTISTS KNOW WHAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS?
No and
there’s the problem right there … a lack of
knowledge.
WHY DO YOU
SAY THAT?
Because
Baptists believe that the kingdom of God is
the same as the kingdom of heaven.
WELL
AREN’T THEY?
Chalk and
cheese my dear friend – chalk and cheese.
WHAT’S THE
DIFFERENCE?
The
kingdom of God is RECEIVED not
manifested physically here on earth (Rom 14:17).
The
kingdom of heaven was to be a physical
kingdom here on earth with Christ when he deliberately gave
Israel an impossible
set of earthly rules to keep (Matt 5-7).
I STILL
DON’T UNDERSTAND?
Baptists
don’t either.
SO ARE YOU
SAYING BAPTISTS ARE NOT BORN AGAIN?
Not
necessarily. Put it this way, ask them into
what kingdom are they born.
WHY?
If they
say “The kingdom of God”, what are they doing
mucking about with the kingdom of heaven rules of the Sermon on the
Mount?
I DON’T
UNDERSTAND?
Ask them
why they are following Christ.
SHOULDN’T
WE FOLLOW CHRIST?
Of course
not!
Where does
it say in the Bible that Christians are
to follow Christ?
Christ was
a pork abstaining, Saturday
worshipping and temple attending Jew.
Furthermore,
he said the only way to have past
sins forgiven was to kill animals for a blood sacrifice.
In
addition, he never ate prawns! CHRIST
WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN!
As
professing Christians, why are Baptists trying
to keep the Sermon on the Mount rules that were meant for Israel?
BUT SURELY
THERE’S VALUE IN TRYING TO LIVE RIGHT?
God
doesn’t have a problem with that… but not
with the impossible rules given to Israel! They were designed so
they
couldn’t be kept!
BUT AREN’T
THE RULES FOR A CHRISTIAN THE SAME?
Of course
not. The rules for a Christian are found
exclusively in Paul’s 13 books.
For
example, are your sins forgiven as a Christian
even though you won’t forgive others?
YES!
But Christ
says they aren’t (Matt 6:12; Lk 11:4)!
BUT SURELY
WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS BLASPHEMY!
You’re
only getting upset because your tradition is
getting in the way.
You see
God says “Come let us reason together” (Is
1:18).
BUT SURELY
BAPTISTS ARE WALKING IN THE SPIRIT?
How can
they be? The Spirit agrees with the word
And take
the helmet of salvation, and the sword
of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Ephesians 6:17
Furthermore,
the word is not open to private
interpretation (2Pet 1:21).
WELL
BAPTISTS HAVE THE WORD OF GOD!
No they
don’t. The word of God is The King James
Bible.
WELL SOME
OF THEM HAVE THE KING JAMES BIBLE!
Yes, but
they don’t believe it.
THEY DO SO!
No they
don’t. Their church Constitutions have “We prefer
the King James Bible” or “We use the King James Bible” but they
never
have “We BELIEVE the King James Bible.”
They may
as well have a Phantom Comic under their
arms.
OF COURSE
THEY BELIEVE IT!
No they
don’t. You start mixing in the Greek and
saying things like “A deeper understanding with the Greek is ….”
My dear
friend, the use of the Greek in a church is
ALWAYS used to undermine the English, give another
interpretation,
substitute words, take verses out of context, add words and so on.
SO YOU’RE
SAYING BAPTISTS DON’T WALK IN THE SPIRIT?
No, I
don’t say that … but God does!
WELL
WHAT’S THAT MEAN?
It means ALL
Baptist churches … yes, EVEN
good, godly, independent King James Bible using or King James
Bible preferring
churches, ARE SPIRITUALLY DEAD.
WOW!
THAT’S A BIG CALL!
Do you
think? The bottom line is this … some
8th Day Adventists, that is Baptists, may very well be born
into the
kingdom of God, and have eternal security, but they are still
following
Jesus and his doctrine with his kingdom of heaven rules here on earth.
You can’t
follow two people at once – you can’t
follow Paul and follow Christ at the same time. The scriptures say
Christians
are to follow the Apostle Paul and his kingdom of God doctrine.
BUT SURELY
WE FOLLOW CHRIST?
We do, but
not directly! Paul
shows us how to as Christians – not as Jews!
Put it
this way, as a Christian we are in Christ,
and will be conformed to his image (Rom 8:29), but we don’t
follow him
as a Jew!
Paul says
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye
followers of me. 1 Corinthians 4:16 and
Be ye
followers of me, even as
I also am of Christ. 1 Corinthians 11:1
Paul does
not say “Follow Christ!”, as to try and live
two different doctrines at the same time is to be DOUBLE MINDED.
You
can’t have mixtures (1Cor 11:30).
You can’t
drive a Rolls Royce with a mixture of
water and petrol in the tank.
You can’t
live the Christian life with a mixture of
Christ’s Sermon on the Mount doctrine and the apostle Paul’s kingdom of
God doctrine
(1Cor 11:1).
WELL, IF
YOU’RE SO SMART, WHY ARE BAPTISTS
DECEIVED?
Very
simple … it’s called PRIDE, but the
proud don’t know that their pride allows the angel of light to have
access to
them (Matt 15:6; 2Cor 11:14; 2Tim 4:3).
The best
way to describe the effects of pride is as
follows.
Sodomites (‘homosexuals’)
are proud to be known as proud. They have Pride Marches in public
spaces. They
wear their sin with pride.
The blind
men of Sodom physically groped
around in the night (Gen 19:5) and couldn’t find the door
(Gen 19:11).
Can we use
this pride analogy and also say
Eighth Day Adventists spiritually grope in the dark also not knowing
how to
find the door (John 10:9)?
Pride blinds
the minds of the proud so they
can’t see.
But pride
is near impossible to cure (Prov
16:18).
Have you
ever wondered why God would say in the
scriptures
For the
time will come when they WILL NOT endure
sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts (and there
are three 1John 2:16) shall
they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 2 Timothy 4:3
“What is
the reason for this Lord” I have asked for
many months.
People of
pride have stiff-necked wills,
impenetrable wills and impervious to reason. It’s not as though they
can’t
believe … they won’t believe under any circumstances!
Harley
Hitchcock
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