1 Corinthians, Dispensationalism, Faith, Mark, New Testament, Uncategorized

Explaining why Baptism is no longer necessary for salvation despite Christ saying it was. Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth.

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Hey Oliver… you have posted a very controversial claim that has been the topic of historical disputes for nearly 2 millennia.

I have some bad news… and some good news… are you open to learning some essential truths that many Christians today do not apprehend?

Unfortunately Oliver by suggesting Mark 16 is applicable to us today and that therefore baptism is necessary for salvation you are displaying that you are like so many Christians today who do not know how or why we must ‘Rightly divide’ the word of truth. 2Tim2vs15.
It’s an honest mistake to make if you have never been instructed as to the doctrinal differences between Chirst’s kingdom preaching to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, from Paul’s message of Grace and salvation to the Gentiles, complete with a new gospel… not preached by Christ. Comparing Paul’s teaching to Mark 16 Paul speaks of Baptism thus….

“10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1vs 10-18.

Here we see a major doctrinal difference between what Christ preached earlier about baptism as being essential for salvation (Mark 16) and What Paul later wrote to the Corinthians… “God sent me not to baptise’… but to preach the Cross”…

And this is but one of many many differences between Christs ministry and preaching from Paul’s… because by the time Paul became an Apostle… things had greatly changed.

Instead of Israel repenting and receiving their Messiah, they hardened their hearts and rejected Christ *twice*… Once when he himself preached among them, when they had him crucified,… and again after the Resurrection when Christ sent Peter and the 12 back to re-offer the kingdom declaring Christs death on the cross and resurrection were the fulfillment of prophecy and proof he was their Messiah.

Twice the Jews hardened their hearts and persecuted the Jewish followers of Christ culminating in the stoning of Stephen a third of the way through the book of Acts.

This is when Israel’s fate was sealed.

Instead of receiving the Kingdom of God… they were assigned for judgement.
That is when God revealed a mystery… He saved the very chief of sinners by pure grace…. Saul of Tarsus… the leader of the Jewish rebellion against Christ… made him an Apostle… and sent him with a completely new gospel *to the gentiles*.

The new gospel was the gospel of the grace of God… Free salvation… the gift of God… without works…. simply by believing the message that Christ died for our sins… was buried… yet rose again on the third day in victory over sin and death!

As Paul said in 1 Corinthians… Salvation is purely 100% by the Blood of Christ on the Cross.
Nothing more… no baptism… no good works… no enduring to the end…. no keeping the Law…. etc etc.

Today we are saved by believing the gospel of the cross… and it is a wicked and false gospel now to add baptism as being necessary… or keeping the law. etc. All things which Christ said was necessary for the Jew to make themselves worthy to enter his kingdom.
That is because the Jews were under the Law.
Yet we Gentiles today are under Grace.

We are to take our doctrine from our God=appointed Apostle Paul… and under the gospel of grace baptism is not a component necessary for salvation.

Baptism today is a witness and personal testimony of our inner faith… that’s all.

Look again at Mark 16… Christ not only said that baptism was necessary for salvation, he also said signs and wonders would be evidence… picking up deadly serpents… drinking poisons… yet these believers would not be harmed …. yet sadly when Christians ignorantly claim Mark 16 is doctrine for us today… and they pick up serpents and drink poisons… Sadly many many have died… They made the fatal mistake of not knowing Mark 16 does not apply to us today.

I have written on this subject… link below.
Please read… and think carefully about what I have said to you… because it is God’s truth that you need to understand so that you free yourself from the false doctrine that adds Baptism as necessary for salvation.
This destroys your ministry.
You may have never been instructed in these matters and so in the past … yet now you have been shown. Will you embrace the truth or be like Israel and harden your heart against the truth and continue to preach error and bad doctrine?

I pray you have the ears to hear and the eyes to see…
I am more than happy to discuss these matter with you.

One of my articles below that directly relates to Mark 16.

Failure to understand Dispensational Truth can be Deadly!

Tim Wikiriwhi Christian Libertarian.

Heroism

There Ain’t No Second Prize! Gen X Anthem.

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Australian Legend… Jimi Barnes!

It’s songs like this that explains why Gen X still grinds harder and burns brighter than all the rest.

I remember Rocking out to this as a young man.
I believed it 100%.

If your generation doesn’t have any inspiration to push through the bullshit, and live free, and own your own destiny you are ripe for living a defeated life…

Quit wallowing in a puddle of your own self-pity.

We are masters of our own destiny… Go Hard!

This song is still true today…

Life is for the Brave.

Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.

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The Legacy of Karl Marx: By Logan Lancing on X

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Digital hell, Digital slavery.

DOWN WITH FLOCK!

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1984, Christian Libertarianism, Compulsion, Constitution, Death of America, Death of Britain, Democracy, Digital hell, Digital slavery., Dumbfounded Dipshits, Freedom, Law, Socialist Globalism, Total Control, Totalitarianism

A society in which people can be monitored at all times is a society that breeds conformity, obedience, and submission… Glenn Greenwald.

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Shared by Orwell Day @OrwellDay on X

“A society in which people can be monitored at all times is a society that breeds conformity, obedience, and submission, which is why every tyrant- from the most overt to the most subtle- craves that system.

Conversely, even more importantly, it is a realm of privacy – the ability to go somewhere where we can think, reason, interact, and speak without the judgemental eyes of others being cast upon us – in which creativity, exploration, and dissent exclusively reside.

And that is the reason why, when we allow a society to exist in which we are subject to constant monitoring, we allow the essence of human freedom to be severely crippled.”

– Glenn Greenwald

Democracy, Freedom, Outstanding Individual Contributions, Righteous Rants, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Treaty of Waitangi, Uncategorized

Maui Pomare: Speech in NZ Parliament on 9 December 1918. ‘The foundations of British sovereignty are liberty, equity and justice.’

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Posted by Shaun Waugh
@culturewaugh on X here

Maui Pomare delivered this speech in the House on 9 December 1918—NZPD vol. 183, p. 1033—three & a half weeks after the Armistice. 🧵 [1/2] He was the first Maori doctor, Western Maori MP, later Minister of Health. His grandmother, Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi, signed the Treaty. That is the record, not a reconstruction.

Ka ao! Ka ao! Ka awatea! — Then they turned the lights back off.

In December 1918, with the guns barely silent, Dr Maui Pomare stood in Parliament and spoke as if New Zealand were one house. He opened in te reo, then translated himself so no one could pretend they had not heard:

“Come hither. Draw nigh. Give me the living waters. The old have slept badly, for night is when dark deeds are done. The tide of misfortune runs to oblivion. But now it is dawn. It is day.”

Then the unforgivable sentences, by today’s liturgical standards:

“Thank God the sun of peace reigns. Tell His Majesty our Emperor of our unswerving loyalty. If the call of Empire comes again we shall defend it to the death. If need be, as in the past, stand back to back with our white brothers of this Dominion to the last man.

Never again must any Polynesian be put under the heel of the despicable Hun. We know the Samoans, our kin. We know the Hereros. That is enough.

For seventy-eight years we have not been under the rule of the British, but taking a part in the ruling of ourselves.

The foundations of British sovereignty are liberty, equity and justice.

In the last fight of all, our house will stand together and its pillars will not fall.

Farewell. Bon voyage. Kia ora.”

That was not a footnote. That was a senior Maori MP, physician, minister-in-waiting, grandson of a Treaty signatory, speaking for chiefs he said he wanted to send as “an authoritative voice from the Polynesian race.”

He did not say partnership of two founding peoples. He did not say co-governance. He did not say the 1840 document created a permanent racial estate with a veto. He said one house, one Empire, one set of principles, and a readiness to die beside the Pakeha next to him.

A century later the inheritors of the same parliamentary seats treat that speech as if it were a colonial ventriloquist act.

The approved history now runs: the Treaty established a sacred partnership; the partnership was betrayed;
the only remedy is a thickening lattice of race-specific institutions, “principles” invented in the 1980s, and a politics that recodes every ordinary civic disagreement as colonial violence.

The imported software is obvious—Critical Race Theory’s original-sin ledger, anti-colonial theory’s settler/indigene binary, & a Palestine Liberation-Front habit of treating the majority as occupiers who must be made to feel illegitimate in their own country.

The local branding is “honouring Te Tiriti.” The product is the opposite of what Pomare described.

The hypocrisy is athletic.

The same tradition that produced a man who recruited Maori for the Pioneer Battalion so they could prove citizenship now produces politicians who treat citizenship as a consolation prize and “rangatiratanga” as a separate constitution. The same people who invoke 1840 as holy writ skip 1918 as if Pomare had been possessed.

They speak of alleged, not necessarily proven, historical wrongs as if the Waitangi Tribunal Union’s expanding jurisdiction were a court of first instance rather than a political commission whose findings become scripture. They demand race-based health authorities, co-governed water, and Treaty clauses in everything from resource consents to school lunches, then call it social justice when the numbers do not close the gaps that Pomare spent his life trying to close with sanitation, hospitals, & an end to tohunga quackery.

Pōmare’s own career is inconvenient. He believed many customary practices were killing his people. He supported the Tohunga Suppression Act. He extended conscription to Māori and was greeted in Waikato with the most extreme insult in the repertoire.

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On-line biographical….
Pomare, Sir Maui (1876–1930)

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Iranian Hero Nika Shakarami. Murdered By the Iranian Islamic Regime for Burning her hijab.

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This was posted on X by Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih here

Let me introduce you to a brave hero from my country, Iran.

She was 16 years old. Just a girl. And on the streets of Iran, she did something braver than most people do in a lifetime: she took off her hijab and burned it in public. Right in front of the regime. Right in front of the world.

That was her crime: civil disobedience. A teenage girl refusing to obey men who claimed authority over her hair, her body, her life.

Her message spoke for millions of Iranian women:

To every man who rules over women in the name of religion, honor, or culture: We do not obey you. Your laws were never made for us.

This is what real power looks like: unarmed, unafraid, unbowed.

For that defiance, she was arrested. Her family says she was tortured and killed after falling into the hands of security forces. The Iranian authorities denied responsibility and gave a different account of her death.

Her name was Nika Shakarami. She was 16.

Now ask yourself: How many women in the West know her name? How many know what she risked for a freedom they have never had to fight for?

Say her name: Nika Shakarami.

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Remembering Christian Missionary John Chau. Martyred on North Sentinel Island 2018.

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It’s been nearly 8 years since Christian Missionary John Chau attempted to make contact with the savage primitive North Sentinelese tribe, considered one of the most isolated and least civilised people remaining on Earth today. This attempt to bring them the Christian gospel and share with them the love of God cost John his life.


John Chau. (photo from Facebook)

I wrote an article about those events here , yet today John is still the target of Atheist derision and mockery… particularly on X social media platform and so I have taken it upon myself to defend John’s good intentions, and strong Christian convictions which have been characteristic of thousands of Christian missionaries over the past 2000 years.

Below is a small portion of a thread by ‘Maximum Atheist’, mocking John Chau… and declaring that news of his death ‘warms his heart’.

The darkness and malevolence of Christ rejecting Godless atheism rears it’s ugly head!

My original retort is below that… then one ‘Tomas’ pipes in….

Below is my reply to ‘Tomas’ which I wish to record on ‘Eternal Vigilance Blog’ for future reference as we can be certain this will not be the last time Atheist attempt to revel in Johns demise.
Atheist’s tend to be extremely ignorant about the heroic exploits of Christian missionaries over the Millennia. Few of them understand the caliber of Humanity and courage these men and woman embody… Undoubtedly among the greatest human beings every to grace this planet… all inspired by the Greatest of them all Jesus Christ!

My reply…

*Thomas* is a Christian name.
From where Tomas did you derive your evaluation of John Chau?
Not from any real knowledge of his motives or character, but from your darkened heart contemptuous of Christ and Christianity.
John was not like you.
You can’t conceive of being imbued with faith and conviction strong enough to Hazard your very life for the sake of getting the essential truth of the love of God to your fellow human beings.
John Chau was such a man. He prepared himself, and he put his money where his mouth was.

I can safely say you have not spent as much as an hour reading the histories of the countless Heroic missionaries who have abandoned the comforts of Civil society and travelled to the ends of the earth… endured hardships, privations, illnesses, Stared death in the face on a daily basis… many spending decades away with ‘their flock’… never returning home to see their own families… and are buried on their Mission fields… most revered and loved by the people to whom they brought the gospel.

John Chau’s remains are upon North Sentinel Island, a testimony that The Lord God had not forsaken them but sent his servant to them, whom alas… they murdered… out of Ignorance and darkness in which they dwell.

You are typical of the Masses of ignorant Unbelievers whom are alien to what motivated Men like John Chau.

You don’t have a clue what debt you have to The Christian Gospel, and Christian ethics, and Christian heroism, and Christian self-sacrifice.

You have no clue what great lengths God has gone to to save your very soul… Your hard heart and ignorance blinds you, and condemns you. From the abundance of your heart you slander God’s servant.

RIP John Chau.

Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.

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Give me Liberty, or give me Death!