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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
please clarify, certainly your not referring to the primative church......
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Hijole, compadre, just look @ my profile pic - I am as primitive as they get.
Sorry, that you purchased a bag of goods by the masonic "us four and no more" crowd who claim like every good practicing Mormon, Jehovah's witness, and Catholic that they have a monopoly on the 1st century church.
Open your bible and you will find Apostolics that never taught an explicit doctrine that believers are lost because salvation and sin remission hangs on the words of a baptism of a properly administered baptism. Nor do you find any mention in their writings that
Acts 2:38 is the New Birth. Nor a doctrine that tongues are salvific or the necessary evidence in all conversions.
You won't find 1st century Apostolics rejecting those filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Much less those that the Almighty God, in His Word, calls His.
You won't find head counts in their epistles as to how many were dunked properly or how many experienced glossolalia.
You won't find primitive Apostolics proclaiming that their clean-cut boys in business suits and young ladies in denim skirts are the poster children for God's Holiness because of their attire.
But rather wearing similar garments that were distinctive by their cut, color, etc.
Nor will you find the primitive Apostolic church prohibiting ornamental jewelry, bi-furcated, facial hair, cut hair on woman, makeup, or modes of media. And much less denying fellowship or denying access to a platform or pulpit to those that do practice these things or make such extrabiblical prohibitions salvific.
Nor did the primitive church reject the Body of Christ for accepting and agreeing there is One God, that Jesus is the Son of God and that Jesus is fully man and fully God but would rather argue about non-existent necessary verbal formulas and semantics as to what "persons" means.
This pales in comparison to the post WWII posers who hijacked a handful of denominations that fracture every 10 years or so accusing the other with their crutch that some are not being Apostolic enough.
For the most part, even radically different along racial lines, as the vocal minority doesn't even reflect the views or experience of today's black Oneness Apostolic (see PAW).
While insisting they are the big brother to national works globally.
Si, Jason, soy mas apostolico que aun tu.
No te aguites, mi hermano.
Abre su biblia, digale no a las tradiciones de los hombres religiosos y predique el mensaje del evangelio de Jesucristo con denuedo -- El evangelio siendo el mensaje de los apostoles.