I believe in the divine three-step mandate of repentance, water baptism, and Holy Ghost infilling to enter heaven. Also, I become weary hearing and reading one-stepper illustrations of the "what if theory." Here's a question for you one-steppers.
There's an atheist, the son of a Pentecostal preacher traveling via airplane and finally accepts the message of Jesus Christ. The atheist states he'll repent of his sins after landing, while in the presence of his father, and the airplane then explodes in mid-air.
Would God send a Pentecostal's preacher boy to hell after his determination was to repent in the presence of his physical father, that his physical father might rejoice with him, in the presence of a mighty merciful God?
I mean, surely, the same merciful God that saves a person after their determination to get baptized, and yet dies in a plane crash before being baptized, this very same merciful God will save a sinner whose determination was to repent, but dies in a plane crash, correct?
This is the same logic you one-steppers utilize, so your answer should be undoubtedly swift.
Saying you'll repent "after" something is not repenting at all. Had he repented while in the plane only to have to explode seconds or minutes later, I think he would be in pretty good hands.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
1. Repentance is a result of a heart that has genuinely placed their faith in the salvation provided by Jesus Christ from death and our sins. Does it need
to be articulated in front of someone? No. Can their be tears and snot and not be genuine? Yes.
Hence, making the determination to repent after ... may not believing on Jesus Christ ... a believer would repent ... it's procrastination, my good friend
.... to shut up Dad ... or uncertainty in the message ... both are UNBELIEF ... and for this one is condemned.
Or maybe he did repent in his heart ... but understood that their would be a lifestyle change that would occur after stepping off that plane.
Repentance is not a one-stop shop at the altar... it is a heart that relies, surrenders, trusts, clings to Jesus Christ ... in faith and turns to Him in
action and deed.
Once again, another clear-cut example that my 3 step brethren don't know what faith means ... to them it's just mental assent.
2. We are baptized because we are saved ... our regeneration, New Birth, according to the 1 stepper an the rest of Protest Orthodoxy, believes this happens at the point of faith and repent ...
For the baptismal regenerationist, one is forgiven at repentance but our sins are not remitted/washed/ wipe until the properly administered baptism ... this of course not found in the bible ... nor in the words of the Christ or the Apostles.
baptizer gets it right and helps in effectuating the application of the blood through his articulations.
God knows a humble and contrite ... heart he cannot reject or despise it .... therefore he knows in his Omniscience that a truly repentant life would or
would have not obeyed His Word though the love relationship He establishes in the heart of a believer.
1 Cor ... do you know what repentance really is ... and what it looks like ... since apparently you struggle with what faith is.
Are you God to know and peek into the hearts of men?
I believe in the divine three-step mandate of repentance, water baptism, and Holy Ghost infilling to enter heaven. Also, I become weary hearing and reading one-stepper illustrations of the "what if theory." Here's a question for you one-steppers.
There's an atheist, the son of a Pentecostal preacher traveling via airplane and finally accepts the message of Jesus Christ. The atheist states he'll repent of his sins after landing, while in the presence of his father, and the airplane then explodes in mid-air.
Would God send a Pentecostal's preacher boy to hell after his determination was to repent in the presence of his physical father, that his physical father might rejoice with him, in the presence of a mighty merciful God?
I mean, surely, the same merciful God that saves a person after their determination to get baptized, and yet dies in a plane crash before being baptized, this very same merciful God will save a sinner whose determination was to repent, but dies in a plane crash, correct?
This is the same logic you one-steppers utilize, so your answer should be undoubtedly swift.
The "spirit" of this question is sickening. May God have mercy on all of us.
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