"Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." (John 3:5)
We believe and practice the biblical mode of salvation as stated In Acts 2:38
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall recieve the gift of the Holy Ghost."
Many will argue this point using Matthew 28:19
"Go ye therefor teaching all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."
This scripture is not contridicting the one in Acts, it is instead reinterating it. It said the Name, and we all know that father, son, and holy ghost are not names, they are titles.
Along these same lines, we do not believe in the trinity. We instead believe that they are one, and the father, the son, and the Holy ghost are diffrent manifiestations of one God.
God, is a spirit (John 4:24). No man can see a spirit. He is the Eternal One, the Creator of all things, and the Father of all humanity by creation. He is the First and the Last, and beside him there is no god (Isaiah 44:6). There was no god formed before Him, neither shall there be any after Him (Isaiah 43:10).
Jesus, is God manifest in the flesh (First Timothy 3:16). Jesus himself revealed himself as God when he said,"He that has seen me has seen the Father" (John 10:30) and "I and my Father are one." (also John 10:30).
Holy Ghost, this is not the third person in a tirune Godhead, it is the Spirit of God that comes to dwell in the hearts and lives of his children, "Christ in you, the hope of Glory." (Colossians 1:27)
We also believe when a person is filled with the Holy Ghost, there is biblical evedince as stated in the second chapter of Acts.
"And when the day of Pentacost was fully come, they were all in one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven toungs like as of fire, and it set upon eact of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other toungs as the spirit gave them utternce." (Acts 2:1-4) See also Acts 10:46, 19:6, I Corinthians 14:2, & Isaiah 28:11-12.
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