REGARDING THE THREE PART GOSPEL DOCTRINE AND ITS EFFECT ON GRACE

 

• Where does the Bible say that justification does not produce a heart change and a living spirit within the believer?

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• If baptism is a necessary part of new birth, then why did Paul say that, "God did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel"? It would be an ideal time for him to express baptism's necessity in that passage, yet he doesn't. He actually seems to separate baptism from the gospel, not join it to it. It does not make logical sense for him to be saying "God did not send me to baptize, but to tell people to repent, be baptized and receive the Holy Spirit." No, Paul is saying, as he always does, that the good news of the gospel is a complete salvation offered by Christ solely on the basis of faith, not faith plus external observances (see Phil. 2, Gal. 1, Eph. 2, Col. 2-3). 

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• How did Norman James get this authority to baptize effectually? If it was from Myrtle Beall, then where did the first person in Latter Rain get their authority, since they were not baptized by one with authority?

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• How do you explain those believers who have radically changed (many times, more than you have) who do not have a “new heart” and a “new spirit” that would give them the desire and ability to change into the image of Christ (since they have not been baptized your way or received the baptism of the Holy Spirit)?

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• What about Steven Curtis Chapman? His songs speak to you. Yet, he will have another “dwelling place” because he was not baptized in Jesus’ Name by one with authority?  If he loves the Lord, wouldn’t God have brought him into “further truth”, if your version of truth were the actual version God intended for His people?

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• Why do you draw comfort and instruction from Spurgeon, Tozer, J.I. Packer, Phillip Keller, Andrew Murray, J. Rutherford, Casting Crowns, etc, when according you’re your version of the gospel, they are spiritually dead and have no changed heart?

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• Why do you take a book that is historical and make it doctrinal? Acts is a historical narrative of the early church. The epistles are doctrinal letters that advise the church on belief and practice. To make Acts doctrinal is a violation of proper biblical interpretation guidelines. 

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