So, you have crossed the line into full blown cultist that believes unless I believe like you do, my religion is “man made” while your beliefs (based on the indispensable Trail of Blood that alone chronicles the “true history” of “True Christianity”, is the only true beliefs?
"unless I believe like you do, my religion is “man made”, No, but you need to study and learn the Bible to see what is right, to believe right. It's in there.
No, not if you don't believe like I do, it is: if your religion is "man made", then it is "man made".
Then, what if there is somebody's religion that is not "man made" at all, but is of Divine Origin? That we need to ask God about
"indispensable introduction".
"Trail of Blood that alone chronicles the “true history” of “True Christianity”: there are plenty of history sources from every strip, starting with the infidels of history, who by the way hold firm to the "Anti-Succession" Doctrine.
If you are wanting me to say that the "true history" of "True Christianity", for the first thirteen centuries, is through those who will see if your relatives and friends have enough money to get you out of Purgatory, so they can buy your salvation from them, with cash on the barrel, as one extremely mild example, I can't do that.
I'm going with the ones they martyred 50,000,000 of "of whom the world is not worthy".
"As we have said, tomes and epitomes of books, purporting to be Church Histories, have been written, and each year adds to their number, but still, not until within a few years past has a solitary effort been made upon the proper basis, or in the right direction. The Church Histories with which our book stores are crowded, were written by Paedobaptists, and they wear a falsehood upon their very title pages, as samples of their contents."
"Examine the standard Church histories of our day, and mark, they all include the history of sixteen centuries; thirteen of which belong to the Catholic and Romish Church, and only two of the sixteen to the Protestant Reformation. It is no longer strange that the world is so profoundly ignorant of Church History."
"One thing settled by the late discussion in the Presbyterian Assembly, is that no Protestant can write the history of the Christian Church! Unless he writes the history of the Romish church, he has no church to write about for sixteen centuries, - until the Reformation of Luther. He may well be asked, Had Christ no church, no witnesses in the world during the roll of one thousand five hundred years?"
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"In the meantime we submit the following facts: - A.D. About fifty years before the birth of our Saviour, the Romans invaded the British Isle, in the reign of the Welsh king, Cassibellan; but having failed, in consequence of other and more important wars, to conquer the Welsh nation, made peace with them and dwelt among them many years.
"During that period many of the Welsh soldiers joined the Roman army, and many
families from Wales visited Rome; among whom there was a certain woman of the name of
Claudia, who was married to a man named Pudens.
"At the same time
Paul was sent a prisoner to Rome, and preached there in his own hired house, for the space of two years, about the year of our Lord 63.
x
"Pudens and
Claudia his wife, who belonged to Caesar's household, under the blessing of God on
Paul's preaching, were brought to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, and made a profession of the Christian religion.
*
"These, together with other Welshmen, among the Roman soldiers, who had tasted that the Lord was gracious, exerted themselves on the behalf of their countrymen in Wales, who were at that time vile idolaters.
"That the gospel was extensively spread in Britain during this period, we learn from Tertullian and Origin. In the year 130 there were two ministers by the names of Faganus and Damianus, who were born in Wales, but were born again in Rome, and there becoming eminent ministers of the gospel, were sent from Rome to assist their brethren in Wales.
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That is getting pretty close to being connected to America, by Paul and his followers by the first and second century. Those Baptist preachers who came here from Wales and England, having been sent by their home churches with the authority to scripturally baptised and start New Testament Baptist churches, are a matter of history, in minute detail.
"Welsh Baptists contend that the principles of the gospel were maintained pure and unalloyed in the recesses of their mountainous principality, all through the dark reign of popery.
"God had a regular chain of true and faithful witnesses in this country, in every age, from the first introduction of Christianity to the present time, who never received nor acknowledged the pope's supremacy: like the thousands and millions of the inhabitants of the vale of Piedmont".
* 2 Tim. 4:21. Fox's
Acts and Monuments, p. 137. See also Dr. Gill and Matthew Henry, on 2 Tim. 4:21. Godwin's Catalogue. Crosby's
History of the English Baptists, preface to vol. 2.
+ Dr. Haylin's
Cosmography, lib. pp. 257, Crosby vol. ii, p. 13,
Welch Baptists by Davis.
x See Acts of the Apostles, 28: 30.
A Concise History of Baptists, by Orchard - Intro Essay by J. R. Graves, 1855
If that is what you believe, then just state it plainly.
"In our view, salvation is by grace through faith alone, nothing added. All who repent toward God and trust the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour are saved, saved forever and without any further condition.
"They are created in Christ Jesus by the new birth to do good works, but any act of obedience to God must follow salvation and cannot possibly be a condition or cause of it.
"This view is held generally by Baptists and by many other evangelical Christians.
This would preclude, for example, any effect that water baptism might have upon the convert."
The Church and the Ordinances, Chapter 9
