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BAPTIST BRIDEISM IS WHAT???
By Dr. Ron
Tottingham
Source: http://www.baptistpillar.com/bd0340.htm
Baptist Brideism is what? Do some folks truly believe that? Let’s think on several thoughts surrounding this
issue.
Thought One: This preacher
DOES NOT believe that one has to be a Baptist to go to Heaven. I do not believe that the New Birth comes by joining
a Baptist church (or any church for that matter), nor do I believe that Baptist churches are synonymous with (the
same as) the kingdom of God, or God’s Family.
To believe that someone has to be of any “church,” be it Catholic, Baptist, Mormon, etc., to go to Heaven is
impossible to find in the Bible.
I believe that it is “Covenant” doctrine to believe that joining to a “church faith” is the same as being saved.
Covenant dogma teaches that one belonging to a body covenant, is to be inside a special covenant relationship with
God wherein all others are excluded from salvation, be it Dutch Reformed, or any covenant body, such as
Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, etc. or such a “Baptist” position.
This Preacher does not believe that heresy, be it Reformed covenant doctrine or “called” Baptist brideism. I
believe salvation is receiving Christ, based upon the Holy Spirit’s revelation that one is an irrevocable sinner by
birth (and not by deeds), and that Jesus Christ (the only human born, without sinful blood, that could offer up a
wholly pure sacrifice to God to atone for man’s sins) is the ONLY Saviour.
Then, by the sinner receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour in repentance, he is born again. This great
salvation is not Baptist, but is Divine. Nor is being a Baptist proof one has God’s salvation, any more than
receiving Church of Christ baptism does, or Lutheran sprinkling or Catholic mass, or any other number of religious
things attributed to hold sacramental (saving) powers.
This Preacher does not believe salvation rests within any “church,” “denomination,” or otherwise.
Period! Again let me state, one would be hard-pressed to find “baptist” covenant theology, wherein only baptists
are going to Heaven anywhere in God’s Word.
A Second Thought: You know
when one honestly thinks about it, where are the major dogmas of most “so-called” Christian faiths found in the
Bible?? The Baptist Faith (The Faith once delivered to the saints - Jude 2) is easily found in the Bible. Easily, I
say!
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