The Holy Universal Church

Every church that preaches the truth is part of the invisible body of the church universal, each local church, is like an arm or a leg, or any other part of the body. Each church has different gifts attributed to the body of believers in that church, and those believers use those gifts to grow the local church and by growing the local church, they grow the church universal.

 

That poll was flawed from the beginning. No one here is stating that one not a member of a local church will not go to heaven. There is much information on this topic in the Baptist History forum. Here is one link I found from there. Go to the URL and look under chapter 3.

Old Landmarkism

[ November 14, 2002, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: DHK ]

 

The question of church membership does not involve the truthfulness of individual salvation. But of proper scriptural baptism. Without this, the organization administering the baptism is not the 'wife' of Christ. This is like saying my wife can be wife to all men, because she is a woman and is a wife, then we throw out the ability for herself or any other in committing adultery, fornication, etc. These things go much deeper than carrying the name of Christ.

Isaiah 4.1 paraphrased: In that day there will be seven women take hold of one man and say give us your name; we shall provide our own meat and drink, only give us your name to remove our reproach.

The reproach extends to the point to where the wife is adulterated in her doctrine as well; it is not a mere question of identifying those redeemed.

If the manner of the local church mattered not, there would not have been a group receiving the baptism of john from which Christ established the body.

God Bless.
Bro. Dallas

 

To me it seems more likely that if there is no universal church, but many churches, that Christ would have many wives.

Only those with scriptural baptism are of the bride. This is the distinction to me.

God Bless
Bro. Dallas