THE DILEMMA OF THE BELIEVER.
PROBLEM ONE
Throughout St. Matthew and St. Mark Jesus or the Twelve failed to baptize believers in Christ’s lifetime. Yet at the very end in the last few verses of each there is a posthumous command from an unnamed mountain in Galilee for the Eleven to baptize believers in water thereafter. This Galilean commission of the first two gospels conflict with St. Luke; St. John; and Acts of the Apostles, wherein no order was given to baptize believers in water at all. The evidence is to the contrary, namely that the ascended Christ’s baptism of Holy Ghost fire would replace the water baptismal rite.
PROBLEM TWO
Jesus’ apostolic command in St. Matthew ordered the threefold baptismal invocation of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, in Acts of the Apostles after Peter reinstituted John’s water rite Peter, Philip and Paul only baptize in Jesus Christ’s name. Did the apostles who received the alternate apostolic commission on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives as Christ ascended know of the Galilean command?
PROBLEM THREE
Jesus’ apostolic command in St. Mark not only differs with the waterless ascension commission at Jerusalem, but it is at odds with St. Matthew also. The baptismal command is to be implemented compulsorily at threat of eternal damnation.
REVIEW OF BASICS:
Mark 16:7. Galilee: was the unofficial alternative ascension commission sixty miles north of Mt. Olivet where Christ ascended. Before ascending to heaven Jesus omitted any command to baptize. See footnote: Matt.28:20
Mark 16:9-20. This is the only place in the New Testament that any Bible book’s author claimed Jesus had made baptism a compulsory condition of redemption.
However, a cross section of eminent Bible scholars think this last half of Mark 16 had been lost and replaced during the 4th century AD. This was the same period in which the first Latin Bible was scribed by Constantine’s scholars. The most complete ancient Greek Bible manuscripts today originated in the 4th century. There are only two: the near complete Codex Vaticanus, is now in the Vatican at Rome. The other is the Codex Sinaiticus in the British Library, which is the only complete copy of the New Testament in existence.
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HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.
As we are educated to be doubters and skeptics, one way or another, you need to employ the willing suspension of disbelief at the very start and if you have not believed the following tenets enumerated below you must pretend they are true while reading.
1. Read it as if it is the infallible Word of God.
2. Remember in the first chapter of the first of sixty-six books: Genesis, these words appear:
a. “God said-God made-God called”
i. God said what you’re reading
ii. God made the patriarchs, prophets & apostles write them.
iii. God called ordinary men to write His Words. Do not treat them as in any other book.
3. Do not analyze it by your own intellect for logic or truthfulness;
4. Do not judge it by your powers of mental reason or of popular philosophy;
5. Read it as God’s Word demonstrating the waywardness of rebellious human nature cursed by sin;
6. Read it noticing the rare men or women that wholeheartedly seek God sincerely without ulterior motive;
7. Read it noticing the futile attempts of men to keep the moral law, vainly worshipping with lip service;
8. Read it and continue the habit even when you do not understand it for God is secretly at work because the Bible says:-:
a. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God:
i. Romans 10: 17.
b. The pre-eternal Christ’s name is the Word, in the triune godhead of the Father, the Word & Spirit:
i. 1st John 5:7; 1st John 1:1; John’s Gospel 1:1.
9. Read it without the help of church or clergy until there arises within your heart a pang of hunger to wholeheartedly be a daily Bible reader.
10. Read it until God’s grace enlightens the eyes of your understanding to fathom Christ’s message to you in both the Old and New Testaments (excepting the uninspired Apocrypha in some Bibles)
11. Read it noticing the principles of the wise reader found in the following Bible references:-
a. Proverbs 3:5-6; 1st Corinthians 2:14; 2nd Timothy 3:16; Romans 1:17; John’s Gospel 1:17.
12. Keep in mind that the minute your mind asserts superior wisdom over your Bible reading you are a fool.
a. Romans 1:22.
13. The reason the mind blindly argues against the credibility of Scripture that the problem is from the heart:
a. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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