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Baptist History by Baptists 1c: THE FIRST ERROR INVENTED in DEVELOPMENT of SATAN'S FALSE 'church'

Alan Gross

Well-Known Member
THE FIRST SATANIC ERROR
INVENTED
for THE DEVELOPMENT
of SATAN'S FALSE 'CHURCH',


was to influence the fleshly reasoning of men
to 'come up with' their own 'idea'
of 'church' government.

WITHOUT GOD,
APART from GOD
and in DENIAL and OPPOSITION
to THE ETERNAL WORD of GOD.
...
1. Church Government was Changed
by Satan,
to form Satan's own "church"

( while the Church Government of The Church that Jesus Built
REMAINS THE SAME as when Jesus Founded
in His Churches, UNTO THIS DAY
and
the Church Government
in The Churches that Jesus Built
WILL CONTINUE to, REMAIN THE SAME
UNTIL JESUS COMES AGAIN).
...

In developing his FALSE 'church' Satan began

by corrupting the doctrinal teachings

of the Lord's churches from within.

...

Satan has his servants in all churches.

...

The first corruption came in Satan seeking to change

the form of church government that Christ gave.

...

Satan's subtility is seen in this.

...

There was a plurality of elders (preachers)
in the early churches.


...

"And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus,
and called the elders of the church"

(Acts 20:17).

...

It seems that today we have a scarcity of preachers but not then.

...

These elders were to be equal, one was not to lord it over another.

...

"The elders which are among you I exhort,
who am also an elder.
. . .
Feed the flock of God which is among you,
taking the oversight thereof,
not by constraint, but willingly;
...
not for filthy lucre,
but of a ready mind;
...
Neither as being lords
over God's heritage (clergy),
but being examples to the flock"

(I Peter 5:1-3).

...

See our Lord's instruction on equality

(Matthew 23:1-12).

...

Early in history, Satan led some away from that Truth.

8.5.2a The Baptist History Notebook Chapter 2: JESUS ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCHES. Satan Establishes his Counterfeit “Church” by Changing Jesus’ Church Government.
 

37818

Well-Known Member
There was a plurality of elders (preachers)
in the early churches.
An explicit understanding of Acts of the Apostles 14:23, ". . . And when they had ordained them elders in every church, . . ."
Yet it has been pointed out that one was addressed in the letters to the 7 churches named in Revelation.
 
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