THE STUNNING FACTS OF CHRISTIAN BELIEFS The stunning facts of Christian beliefs brought forward to the society as a task to educate people about the real facts on beliefs and their origins and also with a honest approach to make people realize truth and to distinguish the pseudo’s who are making attempts to destroy our culture and its values by defaming our Dharma in order to promote a false Dharma which they themselves don’t follow. The word ‘Christmas’ means mass of ‘Christ’ or as it came to shorten ‘Christmas’ it came to non Christians and Protestants from the Roman Catholic Church. And where did they get it? Not from the New Testament—not from the Bible—not from the original Apostles who were personally instructed by Christ—but it gravitated in the 4th century into the Roman Church from Paganism. Since the celebration of Christmas has come to the world from the Roman Catholic Church, and has no authority but that of the Roman Catholic Church, let us examine the Catholic Encyclopedia 1911 edition, you will find that Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt ‘Pagan customs centering around the January calends gravitated to Christmas’ the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth. Encyclopedia Britannica 1946 edition has this ‘Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church…’ it was not instructed by Christ or Apostles, or by Bible authority. It was picked up afterward from paganism the encyclopedia Americana 1944 edition says ‘Christmas… it was according to many authorities, not celebrated in the first centuries of Christian Church’. Now notice! This recognized historical authority shows Christmas was not observed by Christians for the first two or three hundred years—a period longer than the entire history of the U.S as a nation it was not until the fifth century that the Roman church ordered it to be celebrated as an official Christian festival. Any Encyclopedia or any other authority will tell you that Christ was not born on December 25th. The Catholic Encyclopedia frankly states this fact. The exact date of Jesus birth is entirely unknown, as all authorities acknowledge. IF GOD HAD WISHED THEM TO OBSERVE AND CELEBRATE CHRIST’S BIRTHDAY, HE WOULD NOT HAVE SO COMPLETELY HIDDEN THE EXACT DATE. But remember, these people had grown up in pagan customs chief of which was this Idolaters festival of December 25th. It was a festival with its riot and merry making was its special spirit. They enjoyed it they dint want to give it up. Now the same article in the new Schaff—Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge explains how the recognition by Contantine of Sunday which had been the day of pagan Sun worship and how the influence of the pagan Manichaeism, which identified the SON OF GOD with physical SUN, gave this pagans of the fourth Century, now turning over wholesale to Christianity, their excuse for calling their festival date of December 25th birthday of SUN GOD and that is how CHRISTMAS has become fastened on western world! We may call it by another name, but it’s the same old pagan SUN-WORSHIPING festival still! The only change is in what we call it! You can call a Rabbit a Lion, but it’s still a Rabbit, just the same. Most people have ‘supposed’ a lot of things about Christmas that are not true. But let’s quit ‘SUPPOSING’ and get the facts. THE REAL ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS But if they got Christmas from the Roman Catholics, and they got it from paganism, where did pagans get it? Where, when, and what was its real origin? It started and originated in the original Babylon of ancient Nimrod! Yes, its stems and roots whose beginning was shortly this side of the flood! Nimrod, grandson of Ham, son of Noah who was the real founder of the Babylonish system that has gripped the world ever since. Nimrod built the tower of Babel, the original Babylon ancient Nineveh, and many other cities, from many ancient writings, considerable is learned from this man, who started the great organized worldly Apostasy from God that has dominated this world until now. Nimrod was so evil it is said he married his own mother, who name was Semaramis. After Nimrod’s untimely death his so called mother- wife Semaramis propagated the evil doctrine of the survival from the dead tree stump which symbolized the springing fork unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the ever green tree and leave gifts upon it. DECEMBER 25th WAS THE BIRTHDAY OF NIMROD. This is the real origin of ‘CHRISTMAS TREE’. Through her scheming and designing, Semaramis became the Babylonian queen ‘Queen of Heaven’ and Nimrod under various names, became the ‘Devine Son of Heaven’. Through the generations, in this Idolater’s worship, Nimrod also became the false Messiah, son of BAAL the SUN GOD. In this false Babylonish system, the ‘Mother and Child’ (Semaramis and Nimrod reborn) BECAME CHIEF OBJECTS OF WORSHIP. This Worship of ‘MOTHER AND CHILD’ spread over the world the names varied in different countries and languages. In Egypt it was ISIS and OSIRS in Asia CYBELE and DEOIUS. In pagan Rome known as FORTUNA and JUPITERPUER. Even in Greece, China, Japan, and Tibet it is to be found the counter part of the Madonna, long before the birth of Christ! Thus, during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries, when the pagans of the Roman world were ‘Accepting’ the new popular ‘Christianity’ by the hundreds of thousands, carrying their old pagan customs and beliefs along with them, merrily cloaking them with Christian—sounding names, the Madonna and ‘MOTHER AND CHILD’ idea also became popularized, especially at Christmas time. Every Christmas season you will hear song sung and chanted dozens of times Hymn ‘Silent night, Holy night’ with its familiar ‘Mother and Child’ theme. They who have been born in such Babylonish world, reared and steeped in these things all our lives, have been taught to revere these as holy and sacred. We never questioned to see where they came from—whether thy came from the bible or from pagan Idolatry! The real origin of Christmas goes back to ancient Babylon. It is bound up in the organized Apostasy which has gripped a deceived world these many centuries! In Egypt it was also believed that the Son of ISIS. (Egyptian name for ‘Queen of Heaven’) was born of December 25th paganism celebrated this famous Birthday over most of the unknown world for centuries before the birth of Christ. December 25th is not the birthday of Jesus! The Apostles and early true Church never celebrated Christ’s birthday at any time. There is no command or instruction to celebrate it in the Bible—rather, the celebrating of birthdays is a pagan, not a Christian custom. Thus, the ancient Idolaters ‘Chaldean mysteries founded by this wife of Nimrod, has been handed down to the pagan religions under new Christian sounding names. Even the lighting of fires and candles as a Christian ceremony is merrily a continuation of pagan customs, encouraging the waning Sun-God as he reached the lowest places in the southern skies. SANTACLAUS But surely Santa Claus is not a creature of pagan birth? But he is, and his real character is not so benevolent and holy as many suppose! The name ‘Santa Claus’ is a corruption of the name ‘St. Nicholas’ a Roman Catholic Bishop who lived in the Fifth Century. Look in the Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 19, pages 648-649, 11th edition, where you will read St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, a saint honored by the Greeks and Latin’s on the 6th of December. A legend of his surreptitious bestow of dowries on the three daughters of an impoverished citizen, is said to have originated the old custom of giving presents in secret on the eve of St. Nicholas (December 6th), subsequently transferred to Christmas day. Through out the year, parents punish their children for telling falsehoods. Then at the Christmas time, they themselves tell their little children this ‘Santa Claus’ lie! Is it Christian to teach children Myth’s and falsehoods? God says, ‘thou shalt not bear false witness!’ it may seem right, and we justify by human reason, but God says, ‘there is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end there of are the ways of death!’ (II cor.11:14; Rev.12:9) WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE But if the Bible is silent about telling us to observe Christmas or recording any such observant by the apostles or the early true church, it does have something to say about the Christmas tree! This will come as a real surprise to many. But here it is Jeremiah 10:2-6 ‘thus saith the lord, learn not the way of the heathen, for the customs of the people are vain for one Cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it moves not’. There is a perfect description of the Christmas tree termed by the eternal as ‘the way of the heathen-the customs of the heathen’. They are commanded not to learn that way or follow it! It is also viewed in this passage as Idolatry. ‘The fifth verse shows that these trees cannot speak-cannot walk must be carried’ be not afraid of them for they (Trees) cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good they are not Gods to be feared. Some people mislead this to make it say that there is no harm in having a Christmas tree, but that is not what it says. EASTER The Resurrection was not on Easter Sunday! Easter is not a Christian name, but a title of the Idolaters ‘Queen of Heaven’. Because of the ‘Sheep’ instinct in humans, most of us believe in lot of things that are not true. Most of us do a lot of things that are wrong, supposing these things to be right or even sacred! What is the meaning of the name Easter? ‘You have been led to suppose the word means Resurrection of Christ’. For 1600 years the western world has been taught that Christ rose from the dead on Sunday morning. But that is merely one of the fables the apostle Paul warned the readers of the New Testament to expect. The resurrection did not occur on Sunday! The name Easter, which is marry the slightly changed English spelling of the name of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian Goddess Istar, comes to us from old Teutonic Mythology where it is known as Ostern. The Phoenician name of this Goddess was a Astarte consort of Baal, the Sun-God, where worship is denounced by the almighty by the Bible as the most abominable of all pagan Idolatry. Look up the word Easter in Webster’s Dictionary, you will find it clearly reveals the pagan origin of the name. Pass over is a memorial of the Crucification of the Christ (Luke 21:19) Pass over, observed by the early true church, occurred not on Sunday or any fixed day of the week, but on a calendar day of the year, the day of the week varies from year to year. EASTER IS ONE OF THE PAGAN DAYS PAUL WARNED GENTILE CONVERTS THEY MUST NOT RETURN TO OBSERVING (Gal. 4:9-10) How, when, did this pagan festival Easter enter into and fasten itself upon a professing Christianity? Easter as Alexander Hislop says bears its Chaldean origin of its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the ‘queen of heaven’ in the ancient Chaldean Idolaters Sun worship as practiced by the Phoenicians, Baal was the Sun-God, Astarte his consort or wife. And Astarte is the same as Ishtar, or the English Easter. WHERE DID WE GET LENT? ‘Howbeit you should know’, wrote Johannes Casianus (John Casein) in the 5th century that ‘as long as the primitive church retained its perfection unbroken, this observant of Lent did not exist (first conference abbot Theonas, Chapter 30) ‘The fourty day’s abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshipers of Babylonian Goddess. Such a lent of 40 days, in the spring of the year, is still observed by the Yezedis or pagan devil-worshipers of Kurdistan, who have inherited it from their early masters, the Babylonians. Such a lent of 40 days was held in the spring by the pagan Mexicans… such a lent of 40 days was observed in Egypt…’ (The two Babylon’s pp.104, 105) infact this Egyptian lent of 40 days was observed expressly in honour of Osiris, also known as Adonis in Syria and Tammuz in Babylonia (Serbian researchers, by John Land Seer pp.111, 112) Do you realize what has happened? God almighty commanded his people to observe the Pass over for ever! (Ex 12:24) this command was given while the Israelites were still in Egypt prior to the old Covenant, or the Law of Moses! It pictured, before the Crucification, Christ’s death for the remission of our sins, as a type looking forward to it. At his last Pass over, Jesus changed the Emblems used from the blood of a Lamb and eating its roasted body to the bread with wine. JESUS DID NOT ABOLISH PASS OVER But, what has happened? Do you realize it? All western nations have been deceived into dropping the festival God ordained forever to Commemorate the death and substituting in its place the pagan festival in Commemoration of the counterfeit ‘Saviour’ and mediator Baal, the Sun-God, named after the mythical Ishtar, his wife-actually, none other than the ancient Semaramis, who palmed herself of as the wife of Sun-God, the Idolaters ‘Queen of Heaven’. This is not Christian! It is pagan to the core! Yet, crores of millions are deceived into observing this form of heathen Idolatry under the delusion they are hounouring Jesus. Easter does not Honour Christ! And yet, have you not been like a blind sheep, following the other millions in observing these customs? The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now Commandeth all men every where (Acts 17:30) DYED EGGS But did you know that Dyed Easter Eggs also figured in the ancient Babylonian mystery rites, just as they do in Easter observance today? Yes, they are pagan, too. It is recorded in Edward Davis ‘the mythology and rites of British Druids’ pp.210 that the ancient Druids bore an Egg as the sacred emblem of their Idolaters order. Eggs were sacred to many ancient civilizations and formed an integral part of the religious ceremonies in Egypt and in the Orient. Why do people who believe themselves to be Christians Dye Eggs at Easter? Do they suppose the Bible ordained or commands this heathen custom? There is not a word of it in the New Testament. Certainly Christ did not start it, and the Apostles and early Christians did none of it! Then why should we do it today? Why follow heathenism and try to convince yourself but that you are a Christian? You think Easter Sun rise services are beautiful? Listen! God was showing the Prophet Ezekiel the sins of his people in a vision- a prophecy for today! Turn thee yet again said God, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these (Ezekiel has just been shown in vision, Idol worship among Prophesying people of God) and he brought him (Vision) into the inner court of the eternals house and behold… between the porch and the alter, where about 5 and 20 men, with… their faces towards the East and they worshiped the Sun towards the East. Then he said unto him, hast thou seen this O Son of man? Is it a light thing… that they commit the abominations which they commit here? therefore will I deal in fury, mine eyes shall not spare, neither will I have pity and thou they cry in mine ear’s with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them (Ezek 8:15-18) Did you grasp what this most abdominal thing is? It is the identical thing millions are doing every Easter Sunday morning- The sunrise service-standing with their faces towards the East, as the Sun is rising, in a serviced of worship which honour the Sun God and his Mythical Idolaters consort, Goddess Easter. Yes, deceived into believing this is Christian millions practice every Easter the identical form of the ancient sun worship of the Sun God Baal! Through out the Bible this is revealed as the most abominable of all Idolatry. HOW EASTER CREPT INTO THE CHURCH Such is the origin and early history of Easter. How, then, was this pagan festival injected into professing Christian religion, as a substitute for an ordinance of God? First, Jesus and Apostles fore told, not a universal wide spread popular growth of the New Testament Church, but a falling away from the truth on the part of the great majority prophesying a popular, universal falling away from the faith once delivered, to the Thessalonians Paul stated ‘the mystery of iniquity doeth already work’ only some twenty years after the Church began! He referred to the very ‘Chaldean mysteries’, of which Easter and Christmas were the two chief festivals! Secondly, although Jesus said the gates of Hell would never prevail against the Church, yet it is prophesized in the New Testament to be the ‘Little Folk’ never as a great, large, popular universal Church (Luke 12:32) This is the very fact the world does not realize today! One, the great and powerful and universal Church a part of the world, actually ruling in its politics over many nations, and united with the ‘Holy Roman Empire’ is brought to a concrete focus in revelation 17. This Church is pictured with great pomp, ritual and display, decked in purple, Scarlet and gold-proud, worldly, boastful. She is pictured as a universal deceiver-all the western nations spiritually drunk with her false doctrines, their spiritual perceptions so blurred by her paganised teaching and practices they are unable to clearly distinguish truth! She boasts she is the true church, yet she is drunk with the blood of the saints she has caused to be martyred! But how could she have deceived the whole world, as fore told in Gods word? Surely, the Protestants world isn’t deceived! Oh! But it is! Notice, verse 5, she is a mother church! Her daughters are also churches who have come out of her, in protest, calling themselves Protestants- but they are fundamentally of her family in pagan doctrines and practices! They too make themselves a part of this world, taking active part in its politics- the very act which made a ‘Harlot’ out of their mother! The entire Apostate family-mother, and more than 400 daughter denominations, all divided against each other and in confusion of doctrines, yet all united in the chief pagan doctrines and festivals-has a family men! They call themselves ‘Christians’ but God calls them something else- ‘Mystery, Babylon the great’! ‘Babylon’ means confusion! God always names people and things by calling them what they are! And here are the identical ancient Babylonian mysteries now wrapped in the false cloak labeled ‘Christianity’-but in fact it is the same old ‘Babylonian’ mystery system. Constantine took virtual control of the visible, prophesying church in the early 4th Century, this visible organization became almost only pagan, and began ex communicating and persecuting all who held to the true word of God! Finally, it became necessary for them to flee form the Jurisdiction of Rome in order truly to worship God! Thus, the visible, organized Church, which rose to power, was the FALSE CHURCH- the ‘great whore’ of Revelation 17. Nothing illustrates this very fact more vividly than the actual mystery of the injecting of Easter into western Church. Here is the quick brief history of it, from the Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition, volume 8 pp.828, 829. THE FIRST HISTORICAL RECORDS The early church of God in New Testament Times was taught that Jesus was in the Grave for Three Days and Three Nights-that he arose at the close of the third day after the Crucification occurred upon a Wednesday April 25th A.D 31. The pass over was observed annually, on the eve of Christ’s death, on Nissan 14th of Gods sacred Calendar. This New Testament practice was followed in the west universally until shortly after the death of the Apostle John. Here is what happened in the East! During the middle of second century A.D new ideas began to be introduced into the prophesying Christian world. The true Christians who flood to Pella from Jerusalem ‘continued to use the Jewish cycle till the Bishop’s of Jerusalem who were not of the circumsion, they began to invent other cycles’ (Bingham’s antiquities of the Christian church pp. 1152) we see, at this time (middle of 2nd century) the Jewish calculation was generally rejected by the church this is how the pass over- some times called lords supper or Eucharist- was gradually was rejected. Remember that upto this point the church’s of God universally understood that Jesus rose after three days on Saturday evening shortly before sunset. With the rejection of Gods sacred calendar by many in the prophesying Christian world, the many now began to do what seemed right to them. Not only they begin to miscalculate the annual occurrence of the pass over, but in the East they began to observe the pass over weekly on Saturday. For over two hundred years this custom was a universal practice of the Eastern Church’s such universal was the custom of observing the ‘Lords Supper’ on Saturday, yet Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient traditions have ceased to do this. Did you catch the real significance of this quotation? The pass over was transformed from an annual memorial in memory of the death of Christ into a weekly memorial in honour of his Resurrection, which occurred on Saturday. These weekly pass over were called the sacred mysteries. A part of those ancient mysteries was later the festival of Easter. But Easter did not enter suddenly. It entered slowly under the pretext of being a Christian custom. But were the false teachers going to alter the knowledge that Jesus was 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb? GOOD FRIDAY—EASTER SUNDAY Tradition Let’s notice! From the ‘Syriac Didascalia’, composed shortly before the time Constantine, we have a record of what happened in those early days. False teachers began to interpret the three days and three nights in the following cleaver fashion. They claimed Jesus suffered on the Cross, supposedly on Friday, for about Six Hours. The day light hours from 9 in the morning to noon they counted as one day. The hours from noon to 3 O’clock—when the land was darkened—they reckoned as the first night. Then the time from 3 O’clock to sunset was reckoned as the second day. Friday night to Saturday morning became the second night, the day light of Saturday, the third day and Saturday night to Sunday morning the third night. A very cleaver argument and it deceived a great many people! Those false ministers twisted the truth that Jesus was in Grave three days and three nights. FOR THE FIRST TIME THE IDEA OF A SUNDAY RESSURECTION WAS INJECTED INTO THE CHURCH’S. EASTER SUNDAY BEGINS EARLIER AT ROME In commenting on those who did not observe the pass over in accordance with the practice of the Apostles, Irenaeus, who lived toward the close of the second century, wrote to Bishop Victor of Rome, ‘we mean Anicetrus and Pius and Hiegenous and Telesphorus and Xystus’. THEY NEITHER OBSERVED IT (pass over) NOR DID THEY PERMIT THOSE AFTER THEM TO DO SO. (Nicene and post Nicene fathers, Volume I, pp.243). Who were these men? Bishop’s of the church at Rome! Here is the first record, by a catholic of the fact that the Roman Bishops no longer observed the pass over at the correct God—given time, but on a Sunday! It was Bishop Xystus (His name is also spelled Sixtus) who was the first recorded individual to prevent the proper observance of the pass over, and to celebrate the sacred mysteries annually on a Sunday. Irenaus speaks further of him, declaring that his doctrine was indirect ‘opposition’ to the practice of the reminder of the church’s. Bishop Xystus was living at the beginning of the second century, just after the Apostle John died. Notice too, that EASTER Sunday DID NOT BEGIN WITH PETER OR PAUL IN THE 60’s A.D. but with Xystus in the second century! Here you have the astounding origin of Easter Sunday in the western church’s. together with this practice, ‘the Sacred mysteries’ were also observed every Sunday. THESE ARE STARTLING FACTS, BUT THEY ARE TRUE! IT IS TIME WE KNEW ABOUT THEM! Irenaeus wrote even more regarding the observance of Easter at Rome and elsewhere, Constantine then convoked the first general council of the Christian—prophesying world. The council of Nicaea decided, under his authority, the Easter must be celebrated on Sunday and that the pass over must be forbidden. The New Testament reveals that Jesus, the Apostles, and the new Testament church, both Jewish and Gentile born, observed Gods Sabbaths, and Gods festivals weekly and annually! Take your Bible and carefully read Acts 2:1; 12:3-4 (remember the word ‘ Easter’ here is a mistranslation in the king James version-originally inspired ‘pass over’ and so corrupted in the revised standard version) Acts 18::21; 20:6, 16:1 Corinthians 16:8. Though everyone was now forced to observe Easter or flee the urban areas of the Roman Empire, the churches were still divided over the exact Sunday of the Easter. Here is how confusing matters become. ‘But not withstanding any Endeavors that could be used then, or after wards Thee remained great differences in the church about it for many ages. For the churches of Great Brittan and Ireland did not accord with the Roman Church in keeping Easter on the same Sunday, till about the year 800. Nor was the roman way fully received in France, till it was settled there by the authority Charles the Great’… (Bingham’s antiquities of the Christian church, pp.1151) THESE ARE STARTLING FACTS—but they ought to make you wakeup to the truth! It is high time we learned exactly what has happened to gospel of Jesus Christ and to the practices of the New Testament Church of God these past 2000 years! But as the false, paganised church grew in size and political power, decrees were passed in the fourth century A.D imposing the death sentence upon Christians found keeping Gods Sabbath or god’s festivals. Finally, in order to keep the true way of god, many Christians flood for their lives. But another large portion of the true church of god, failing to flee, yet remaining true to gods truth, paid with their lives in martyrdom (REV.2:13; 6:9; 17:6; 18;24). JUST WHAT DO YOU MEAN::: CONVERSION? How many times have you heard non Christians, judging one who professes Christ, say in disgust; ‘well if that’s Christianity, I don’t want any of it!’ How many judge GOD by the way professing Christians live? How many assume that one must live a perfect life, before he can become a Christian? How many think a Christian is supposed to be perfect, never doing anything wrong? Suppose you do see or hear about a Christian doing some thing wrong. Does that mean he is a Hypocrite—that he is not really a Christian, after all? The Startling truth is that few know just what a Christian is. Few know how one is converted—whether suddenly, all at once or gradually. Does conversion happened immediately or is it a process its high time we understood what constitutes real conversion. What is true Christian conversion? Does joining a church make one a Christian? Does saying, I accept the Lord Jesus as my Saviour makes one Christian? Lets get the Bible definition. In Romans 8:6-9 you will read for to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither in deed can be so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But they are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. FALSE CONVERSIONS Millions may profess to be Christians, but unless Gods Holy Spirit, given as his gift by grace, is at the moment dwelling in them, they are NOT CHRISTIANS. Millions may have their names written in Church membership books, and still be NONE OF HIS—not really CHRISTIANS at all! And millions are so deceived (Rev. 12:9) The Bible speaks of three worlds—or ages in time order. First, the world what then was, over flowed with water-- prior to the flood; second, this present Evil world; and third the world to come. On trial for his life before Pilate, Jesus said he was born to be a king (John 18:37), but what his kingdom was not of this world. HE WILL RULE THE WORLD TOMMOROW (Verse 36). Why has the whole world been deceived with a false gospel (Rev. 12:9)? Why have they been deceived into belief in a counterfeit kingdom of God? If any one says that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (Verses 7-8), if we say we are already perfect—that we never slip up and make a mistake or commit a sin, we are deceiving ourselves. I knew a woman who deceived herself in this way. She claimed to be above sin—claimed she never sinned. And although she was most people would call a good woman, she actually was committing the biggest sin of all—spiritual pride and vanity! She glorified in her ‘sinless’ state. She lacked Christian humility. ALL ABOUT WATER BAPTISM The Jordan River at flood level near the sea of Galilee Jesus Christ was baptized in its swirling waters (Matt. 3:13-17) Is water baptism essential to salvation? What about the THEIF ON THE CROSS? Was he saved without it? What is the proper form or mode—sprinkling, pouring or immersion? Should babies and children be baptized? Suppose you are baptized by a minister you have since lost confidence in. Should you be baptized over again? Suppose you are baptized ‘in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost (spirit)’ should you be baptized again in the name of Jesus only? Should one be baptized IMMEDIATELY or only after a six months probation? Must the ordinance be performed by an ordained minister? Millions are being deceived, misled into thinking they are saved, when they are not! People have been taught, falsely, that ‘Christ completed the plan of salvation on the cross’—when actually it was only begun there. The popular denominations have taught, just BELIVE—that all there is to it. THAT TEACHING IS FALSE! And because of deception—because the TRUE GOSPEL of Jesus Christ has been all but blotted out, in these 2000 years by the preaching of a false gospel about the person of Christ—and often a false Christ at that—millions today worship Christ—and all in vain! ‘IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME “SAID JESUS”, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN’ (Mark 7:6-9) There is no promise that anyone will receive the Holy Spirit until baptized in water the water baptism is not the thing that saves us. While it is commanded for the remission of sins, yet it is merely symbolic of that which remits our sins—the death of Christ while also it pictures his resurrection, by which we are finally saved, IT IS MERELY THE SYMBOL NOT THE REALITY. The true explanation is that the ‘THEIF ON THE CROSS’ was unable to be baptized and since baptism is not the thing which saves us from the death penalty makes us righteous or imparts eternal life, HE DID NOT LOOSE SALVATION. This is one of the sincere effort done to put forward the basic facts of the Dharma of the Christian and upon reading and knowing the stunning facts above revealed, it is not difficult for any one to understand what these Pseudo Christians are doing and what for they are indulging in their practices such as, Conversions in the name of healing, feeding, under the guise of service, etc., hence it is hereby appealed to all the BEWARE OF THESE PSEUDOS these people may make you loose your Dharma by posing themselves as messengers of God or else you may loose your own Sanathana Dharma which is having thousands of years of History. (With the Courtesy of THE PLAIN TRUTH by Herbert W. Armstrong, 1952, 1972 1974 edition)
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