A brief review of he Concerns about
Bammel Church of Christ and Spring Woodland as the Concerned Member
keeps seeking for a church which has not been diverted. Afterward, we will
review the theology
of MIKE ARMOR whose book replaces the Bible in Ukraine while the
Russians apparently can read the Biblical Text.
As Madison rides on the back
of Kregg Hood for
teaching ABSOLUTE FALSEHOOD about tithing, Mike Armour spreads the
MANTRA that the TRADITIONS drive the ANTI-INSTRUMENTAL views of the
church of Christ. I will review one of his writings and get it posted
soon.
For now, you should
understand that
EXPERIENCING GOD by Blackaby and King is "southern Baptist" but is
repudiated by Baptists who ARE AWAKE AND HAVE THEIR CLOTHES
ON.
This is NARRATIVE THEOLOGY.
According to Rubel
Shelly all of the Bible has been sifted through philosophy and the
writer's PERSONAL AGENDA. However, the junk stuff is still available
to make YOUR OWN Scripture through "new glasses" and VALIDATE it by
your experience with your own new queer songs. This is part of the
LATTER RAIN which at Jubilee 99 was dubbed LATTER REIGN seeking ways
to ASSIST GOD as all PRAISE SINGING is an attempt to PROP UP A
FAILING JESUS who did not bring the kingdom the first time.
Bammel
Church of
Christ Concerned Member: They are starting a
bible class teaching from the
book "Experiencing
God".
Only 10 to this
class. I was attending there for along time and didn't realize what was
going
on.
Ten is about the right size.
The scheme is to
build a STALINIST core group and train them to believe that they
are
MOSES OR GOD OR A BETTER JESUS CHRIST.
Adolph Hitler
picked and trained leaders who were INTELLECTUALS but the canon
fodder he called HUMAN MATERIAL. The ELITE are at the center or
Pitcher's Mound in the Purpose Driven Cult. Only those who have gone
through the course and sign human covenants go on to become THE
leaders while others stand at lesser BASES or in the outer
circles.
Here is one review of Experiencing
God by
Henry Blackaby which tells
you how you can be GREATER THAN Moses or even Jesus Christ.
Another look at Blackaby
King here: if you want
to be superior to JESUS CHRIST then just watch what will happen out
of just a little class of INFILTRATORS AND
DIVERTERS:
Bammel
Church of
Christ Concerned Member: Change agents have hit Bammel Church
of Christ in Houston, Tx.
This has been going on for the past 20 + years. I use to attend there
but no longer because of this. They have a praise team and the men are having
some kind of Power Breakfasts and they hold a mens
prayer time in "a
COMMUNITY room". They have their "connection groups" meeting in homes on Sunday night and
throughout the week.
I have read Lynn Anderson
boasting of taking
may years to get Highland to sing during the Lord's Supper (more in
our review of Mike Armour). Someone has noted that it took 15 years
for him to make another change which is FORCED or there would be no
objection.
And in the end the magical
change
which sows discord and offends many "little ones" is so that STRANGE
guys can sing, clap even during the Lord's Supper. It is prophesied:
it is in the BOOK.
At Madison church of Christ
the CHANGE AGENT
from a Purpose Driven Cult brags (and recorded) about upsetting old
ladys to change HER views to HIS views. He speaks about allowing the
people to believe that they are on a train going to one city but
SECRETLY diverting the train to another city.
Rubel Shelly speaks of
Machiavelli from the
Prince to show why there is resistance to change:
The
Machiavelli FAX of Life Resisting
Change(From:Faith
Matters)
I have added links
to Machiavelli's
Prince to assist you in understand the "Volkish"
revival and
the universal methods of change:
Machiavelli
Prince
Ch3-Ch6-Ch7
For
comparison we will not some
of Hitler's message about how to organize the "human" material
(emotional) to be used by the elite (the rational) with music being
important:
Hitler: V�lkish
State:
Supporters (emotional) and Leaders
(Intellectual)
Adolph
Hitler
Mein Kampf Vol 2,
Ch5,
Ch8,
Ch11
Rubel Shelly
of Woodmont Hills:
the Bible, a Direct Revelation, life experience and an
Accountability Family.
Rubel Shelly appeals to Bob
Mumford for proof
that God will speak audibly to you.
However, Bob Mumford is the
true father of
SHEPHERDING CULT GROUPS.
Rubel Shelly also uses the
Henry Blackaby ideas
almost word for word.
See
more where Rubel Shelly believes that the GEIST
as in Poltergeist as actually living
inside SOME people's bodies.
Bammel
Church of
Christ Concerned Member: "They have once a year
have a dedication for the new babies in
the congregation. They have a
woman as a minister to the women. I know
there is more.
Of
course, there is no
difference between DEDICATING babies without sprinkling water on
their heads and NOT sprinkling water on their head. The same process
believes that something
magical happens when
the baby is DEDICATED as other are sprinkled and put under a "saving
influence" based on the faith of THEIR PARENTS.
All
of these things flow from
an ECUMENICAL urge to become a One World Church with one standard of
doctrine and an already published CODE OF ETHICS. This will silence
those who test the spirits and make everyone become a COLLECTIVIST
religion under one head.
In
the Bible there
are only TWO "offices" or works for a faithful church of Christ. The
first is the ELDER who is not elected but identified because "He is
already laboring to the point of exhaustion in preaching and
teaching." His title is Pastor-Teacher all rolled into one.
Second,
the deacon is
identified by a word which makes him "full of the Spirit" or "holding
the mystery of the faith in a clear conscience." He is defined as a
TEACHER and was used locally and as a missionary.
Now,
fast forward: adding
PREACHER to the church has been radically changed in many big city
churches. He FIRES the elders and selects "special servants"
including women as deaconesses. The deacons are then replaced by
PROFESSIONAL buddies of the pastor and some even have a "missionary
in residence." The elders then, as in many denominations, becomes the
shepherds or advisors of the MINISTRY TEAM BUILT LIKE A pyramid or
tower of Babel.
In
order to support the DAVIDIC
system which was a curse added by God, the CORE GOSPEL becomes the
building program and tithing to pay for all of the TEAM. Music has
always been a mind-control device because it induces Fight, Flight or
Sexuality.
The
women and effeminate then
become the women and children ruling over the church.
Jesus
spoke in parables and
acted parables to hide the truth from those who do not love the
truth. The baptism with the DOVE resting on the head of the SON
and the voice speaking as a
FATHER is a direct repudiation of Mother Goddess worship. When women
and powerless males take over then RELIGION with music and effeminate
practices result.
In
the religion of the Babylon
Whore (Inanna, Semiramis, Jezebel, etc.) the MOTHER caused the DOVE
to rest on the DAUGHTER. The female goddesses, Sophia and ZOE
dominated the "minor jehovahs" and little "logos" or Jesus and forced
them into forming Musical Worship Teams to worship the Mother and the
Daughter. This among lots of Biblical evidence explains why Paul knew
that preside over women could not prevent the exercise of AUTHENTIA
or authority which was both Erotic and Murderous. Click for
the story in The
Origin. And click
here
to
see that Sophis was the serpent and
ZOE was the beast or "female instructing principle."
Women
leaders can happen only
after the Epistles are repudiated as inspired even as Mike Armour
blames the non-instrumental position on the apostolic
writings.
Spring
Woodlands
church of Christ Concerned Member: This is happening also
to Spring Woodlands Church of
Christ in the Woodlands, Tx where we use to attend as well.
They
are fixing to build a 10
million + dollar building up north somewhere. They have
their
praise teams
standing in front of
the audience singing
their solos and
clapping
their
hands.
This frightens
me. It is nothing but the devils
work.
It
is a historical fact
based on the temples, cathedrals and modern cult-like MEGA CHURCHES:
You build the building and Satan will come.
The
Purpose Driven Cult INTENDS
that the building is finished and well financed before the END GAME
magically appears. Your old church which was A School of the Bible
suddenly is converted to A Theater for Holy Entertainment. Rather
than faithful preachers the MUSIC MINISTER becomes the tail which
wags the dog. The professional musicians have tricked you into
building them a PERFORMING ARTS BUILDING.
We
remind you that the eternal
picture of all performing arts in paganism and church history is that
it is for "women and the effeminate" and worse.
The
end- time PRAISE SERVICE is
just like the beginning- time praise service. The goal was through
human praise enchantment documents one could PROP UP the gods so that
they didn't fail. That's why with the NOW BUT NOT YET KINGDOM of the
new Premillenials, Jesus failed and YOU had better become MORE
POWERFUL than Jesus to get the nation READY so that He doesn't have
anything to do.
The
modern CHANGE AGENTS do
what the elders of Israel did: the elders are prompted to demand SET
A KING OVER US as a dominant pastor. Of course, he might be a
communications major but if he is charismatic or can CONTROL MINDS
then he is our guy.
This
repudiated Jehovah as
their Prince, King and Priest. Therefore, fulfilling the DEATH
SENTENCE imposed because of the MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai, God
totally turned Israel over to WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST (Stephen in
Acts 7) and to build a temple LIKE THE NATIONS so that they could
WORSHIP like the nations. The king, kingdom, Law and temple were
permitted by God until He had the kings enslave them with tithing for
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS and drove them into captivity to the beat of
musical instruments.
Lynn
Anderson promoting the
IMAGES or IDOLS over Biblical facts quotes Huxley instead of Jesus,
BUT:
Huxley
also said and we quote:
Abused
as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense
cathartic; it is merely a form of
emotional
masturbation. It is the
rarest thing to find a player
who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession.
Nobody
can make a
habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power
over others, and remain
untouched by the process.
See
how the temple was a NATIONAL
temple.
The Jewish PRAISE TEAM stood
in the court and
tried to EXORCISE the demons hoovering around the burning animals.
They were a CARNAL TYPE of Mocking Lord Jesus "outside the
camp."
The Sodomites plagued the
temple in Jerusalem like all priesthoods. The singing women who went in
procession around the city and even in the temple were not spiritual
worship teams. Both the singing and playing of instruments is rooted
in the song of the prostitute or male prostitute. They are also
related to "triming your vines" to "take your inheritance." The word
HALAL like the word CHALAL means to "play the flute, pollute and
prostitute."
The Holy Place was a carnal
type of the church
of Christ which is a SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE and not a worship center.
Levitical singers or musicians never dared enter into the type of the
church of Christ or they would have suffered violence.
Not even in the VILEST pagan
temples could the
singers and musicians ever enter into the type of the church as a
place of discipline while worship is IN THE HUMAN SPIRIT. However,
the end time BABYLON WHORE is a final attempt of the failed Lucifer
or ZOE.
The musical praise team is
"an abomination
which makes desolate standing in the Holy Place claiming that we are
God" by claiming to LEAD YOU INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. God is MARKING
those with the musical BRAND and separating out those MARKED with the
Mind of Christ which is the Spirit of God. It all fulfills prophecy
and YOU ARE THERE watching God do His supernatural work. The locusts
(cymbals) are doing the work of Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon who was
the "father of musical harmony, twanging bowstrings, thieves and
liars."
Spring
Woodlands
church of Christ Concerned Member: They have had 2 splits
that I know of. This is
more powering than Jim Jones and his cult. I can't believe how
people can be so
blind
and
deaf
about what is
going on in these churches. They are so wrapped up in being
entertained.
See how the
Post-Modernism of Antonio
Gramsci
is a REBIRTH of
MARXISM:
When
we hear
"Postmodern" or "Post Denominational" we know that Antonio Gramsci
has leaked out of the Philosopher's "Scripture." Karl Marx saw things in terms of
economics and politics.
The METHOD is to produce a
mild schizophrenia
so that you don't know what is happening until you wake up NAKED.
However, the danger is that RIGHT SMACK in the middle of the GREAT
LEAP FORWARD the LAITY catches on to what the NIKE OR NICO "GODS" are
doing and the LEAPERS just fall to the ground like many of China's
Great Leaps Forward.
Gramsci
thought in
terms of collecting
all power centers
into a hegemony which is defined as
"the systematic spread of the
world view of the ruling
class."
"Dissociation is the loss of conscious
awareness of the real world. Specifically,
postmodern
religionists call for
people
to
leave
all rational thinking
behind before
ascending to
the
godhead.
Thus,
they see one thing as the
supreme
barrier to
deep
religion:
Reason, and its
handmaiden, truth.
There is a good reason for
it looking like a
Hitlerian, Karl, Marx, Machiavellian or Jim Jones: responses from
some in the Purpose Driven Cult makes you aware that some of them are
dangerous: "We will do ANYTHING to attract seekers" and of course
silence those who oppose them. We have the claw marks.
See how the
Holy Place as the church of Christ HAS NO
ABOMINATIONS STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE.
Conspiring
to Destroy
Biblical Authority
Since
Eastern
European
Missions is a MINISTRY
of Bammel
church of
Christ and they DIVERT
from sending Bibles and send Mike Armour's book for the Ukraines who
CANNOT
DIGEST THE
BIBLICAL TEXT, Bammel
Road and EEM must be evaluated based on the teachings of Mike
Armour.
Mike
Armour is IN BED with the
Disciples of Christ and riducules churches of Christ trying to
promote an ecumenical with them. They are a denomination with a head
much like the Pope.
Further,
is important to
understand that Mike Armour perverts the history of
the Restoration
Movement to make the
Campbell's not consider Instrumental Music or BAPTISM a fellowship
issue. The anti-church
of Christ verbage looks
like it all came out of the same mind but it is totally in
error.
Mike
Armour: Looking back at
the twentieth century, the a cappella Churches of Christ present one of the great ironies of American religion. A
Bible-believing people,
aggressively evangelistic for most of our history, we have always
described ourselves as eager for Christian unity.
Yet,
by
mid-century the broader
religious community saw us as exclusivists, thoroughly isolated from our
spiritual neighbors.
Nor
could we hold ourselves out
as a model of unity, for we constantly struggled with our own
polarizing divisions.
Well, the RESTORATION
MOVEMENT always arises
out of UNWILLINGNESS to INCLUDE those who practice "believer's
baptism" which is pagan Baptism, quarterly Communion, the use of
musical instruments and etc. Why else WAS there a Restoration
Movememt:
Alexander
Campbell
Writing
on: "Mark them who
cause Divisions."
"THE Pope and his angels preached from this text
half a
century, while Luther,
Zwingli, Melancthon, &c. were exposing the filthiness of the
Mother of Harlots.
As
Luther gave the
Pope no quarters, he wreaked his vengeance on
the
Reformers,
denouncing them as heretics, schismatics, sowers
of discord
among brethren, haughty, self-willed, and contumacious dignitaries.
"He learned that lesson from
his
predecessors, who
denounced
the
Messiah and his
Apostles by similar
arguments. Jesus was
not a good man, for he made divisions among the people; and
the Apostles
were
heresiarchs, for they
turned the world upside down.
[Note:
Elijah and
the Word of God fought against the musical prophets of Jezebel. Jesus
equated John to Elijah and the Jewish clergy was identified as
children piping
to try to force Him to sing
and Dance
while John had a demon. Luke 7]
"Elijah,
too, was a
disturber
of the peace
of Israel; and
Daniel greatly marred the
harmony of the
devout fraternity who paid court to Nebuchadnezar.
In
short, from the
time that Moses caused
divisions in the kingdom of Pharaoh, down to the last Dover Association, this text,
"Mark and avoid them that cause divisions," has never been
unseasonable amongst the opponents
of reform and of change; for as there can be no reformation without
change--and as all who preach reformation preach a change,
the
consequence must be, that
those who will not
change, must,
to
justify
themselves,
denounce
the
reformers; and no text
does better than this--"Mark them who cause divisions, and avoid
them." EDITOR.
[The
Millennial Harbinger
(December 1832): 604.]
In
this case, they were
denouncing instrumental music among other things.
Those instrumentalists who
stole (and continue
to steal) the church houses of widows so that they can engage in
entertainment at attract large contributors ALWAYS saw the faithful
Restoration Movement as Exclusive. Jesus was Exclusive. Paul was
Exclusive. Peter was Exclusive: and they were all murdered by
ECUMENICAL Pharisees who DETESTED free religion.
One suspects that all of the
badmouthing
against churches of Christ came spewing from the lips of people on
the PAYROLL of the same churches of Christ.
One suspects that when Jesus
comes about 99.99%
of all people will be aligned against those who refuse to bow to the
homosexual invasion of churches using "musical worship teams" or
other theatrical performers leading the invasion.
The unity proposed by
churches of Christ is on
the SAME BASIS as any other religious organization known to mankind.
If Mike Armour has no trouble fellowshiping instrumental churches it
is because he BELIEVES their position which has ZERO Biblical authority and is in fact
CONTRARY to the
teaching of the Bible
as about 1800
years of church history proves.
Mike
Armour and
the Disciples simply believe that the totality of the Bible and views
of church theologians B.M. (Before Me) has been INVERTED by
postmodern (Post-Christendom, Post-Biblical) views flowing out of
"christian" universities.
They
are out on a broken
limb.
Nor did ANY Restoration
Movement group suggest
unity
based on violation of the Inspired Word. The DISCIPLES as new
bed-fellows
WOULD NOT
fellowship a non-instrumentalist in the sense of allowing him to
teach a class on what the Bible REALLY says against instruments as
the Mark of Baal (Re. Martin Luther).
They would
assuredly
EXCLUDE anyone
who proposed to tell the
truth about instrumental music which the Bible and all history proves
to have been introduced by Satan to steal the worship due a holy
God.
Nor would Mike Armour allow
anyone who opposes
his view to FELLOWSHIP fully with his group.
Nor, would EEM or Bammel
Road allow anyone to
teach the truth about musical worship teams.
The DISCIPLES always exult
in FELLOWSHIPING
"church of Christ Scholars" because they know that they
ALREADY agree
with them and
have no more Biblical background than the
Disciples.
Therefore, it is less than
honest to use the
HEGEL (Marxist) effort to destroy churches of Christ by
perverting
both the history and the practice of churches of Christ.
Thomas
Campbell's DECLARATION AND ADDRESS proves that the
churches of Christ believers
abandoned an already divisive and exclusive group.
"This
desirable rest, however,
we utterly
despair
either to find for ourselves, or to be able to
recommend to our brethren,
by
continuing amid the diversity and rancor of party
contentions, the veering uncertainty and clashings
of human opinions:
nor,
indeed, can we reasonably expect to find
it
anywhere
but in Christ and his simple
word, which is the same
yesterday, to-day,
and forever.
[Thomas
Campbell noted elsewhere that: "I am not to
be understood as objecting to the detection and exposure of a false
and unscriptural
experience, which, from
your words, appears to be the thing intended; for, in your foot note,
page 141, you assert, that we are taught, that
"since those gifts have
ceased, the Holy
Spirit now operates upon the minds of men only by the
word;"
and at the close
of said note, you further assert, that "we are positive of one
point,"
namely,
"that
the scriptures teach us not the
doctrine of physical operations of the Divine Spirit in order to
faith."]
Indeed,
should Christians cease
to contend
earnestly for
the sacred articles of faith and duty once delivered to the
saints, on account of the
opposition and scanty success which, in many
instances, attend their faithful and
honest endeavors; the Divine cause of truth and righteousness might
have long ago been relinquished.
And
is there
anything more formidable in the Goliah schism, than in many other
evils which Christians have to
combat? Or, has the Captain of Salvation sounded a desist from
pursuing,
or proclaimed a truce with this deadly enemy that is sheathing its sword in the very bowels
of his
Church,
rending
and
mangling his mystical
body into pieces? Has he said to his servants, Let it alone? If not,
where is the warrant for a cessation of endeavors to have it removed?
Therefore,
the UNITY upon
which the Restoration Movement was built out of many factions was
based on the FIRST revelation.
Is
Mike Armor honest in
blaming being exclusive on the 19th century after
non-instrumentalists refused to join his Disciple friends?
To
see that the Bible and
all of church history taught the Commands, Examples and Inference long before the 20th
century.
Conspiring
to Promote
Instrumental Music
You
cannot create a
systematic Anti-Ism against non-musical churches without PROMOTING
the instrumental view:
Mike
Armour:
But
he ascribed far greater weight to direct commands than to teachings
derived from precedents and
inferences. Lines of fellowship, he cautioned, should never be drawn
on the basis of doctrines supported primarily by
precedents or
inferences.
Otherwise
salvation depends on proper
deductions from closely reasoned
arguments, which would put salvation beyond the reach of those with
simple minds or limited intellect.
Yet,
in the wake of the
instrument controversy Campbell's distinction generally disappeared in
churches
supporting a cappella worship.
Thomas
Campbell defined
"church" as A School of Christ and not related to the modern Pagan
Worship Center.
His
proposal was like that of
Paul in Romans 15: to allow the people with diverse backgrounds to
meet in peace and harmony the assembly or "synagogue" should be a
school of the Bible.
Therefore,
everyone could
glorify God with one voice ONLY by speaking "that which is written."
Or as in Ephesians "the Spirit" and in Colossians "the Word of
Christ."
Since
the synagogue or church
had no wider agenda then the DIRECT COMMANDS would facilitat a SCHOOL
but not a church.
Therefore,
it is dishonest to
claim that either Campbell did not use examples and inferences to
determine other faith and practice.
The
DIRECT COMMAND for the
literate was to SPEAK INSPIRED TEXT without Mike Armour to interpret
it for the poor Ukraines. A Psalm is:
Psalmos (g5568) psal-mos'; from
5567; a set
piece of music, i.e. a sacred ode (accompanied with the
voice, harp or
other instrument; a "psalm"); collect.
the book of the Psalms: -
psalm. Comp. 5603 (an ode).
- A
sacred (inspired) ode
- Accompanied
by
the
- Voice
- Harp
- or
other Instrument.
When the Jews attempted to
force Jesus into
this it was mocking Him playing a concert of instruments and trying to
get him to lament for Bacchus and dance.
"Not
to be
overlooked here is the accompaniment of music and dancing which, with the
character of the ensuing phenomena,
makes the diagnosis (of idolatry) certain." (Schaff-Herzog, Ecstasy,
p. 71).
"The
triumphal hymn of Moses had
unquestionably a religious
character about it; but the employment of music in religious
services,
though
idolatrous, is more
distinctly marked
in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf."
(Smith's
Bible
Dictionary, Music, p.
589).
Music with the Greeks,
therefore, included,
besides
- vocal and instrumental music,
- choral
dancing,
- rhythmic
motions,
- and
various modes of harmony expressed in action,
perhaps
most particularly that
part of education which we should now classify as a
striving for harmony (Kosmos
unity) in life
>
combined
with aesthetic (art and human
creativity),
v in contrast with
intellectual and
physical branches of
study and development.
>
It was culture of the essential
person, the ego or soul,
v
whereas
the other two divisions care for and supply the needs of the
mind and
of the body.
If
Paul said "make melody on
the harp" then Mike Armour and the apologists for the Disciples
Denomination would absolutely hold that to be authority.
Since
Paul said
make melody in the HEART then why not trust the Ukraine people to be
able to read the TEXT without a Marxist or Hegelian twist? If they
don't already know the meaning of "heart" then looking it up in a
dictionary would be a grand learning experience!
David
Lipscomb said that there
was no evidence of PSALLO being used as proof text prior to A.D.
1878. What has happened to Mike Armour and the new Anti-ism that they
are better equiped than Spirit- Guided Paul to do a "private
interpretation" or "further expounding" of the inspired text?
Why,
with Rubel Shelly's NEW
GLASSES to get a NEW VISION for the church of Christ, do we believe
that these "prophets" have a revelation which NEGATES the Bible and
all of church history and scholarship?
The
Britannica notes
that:
"Music, like the word, also
may have symbolic
meaning. The basic elements out
of which
musical symbolism is built are sounds, tones, melodies, harmonies,
- and
the various musical instruments,
- among
which is the human voice.
Just
what is it about "make
melody IN THE HEART" after SPEAKING "that which is written" to one
another to TEACH and ADMONISH can the Ukraine people understand and
Mike Armour cannot? Why is it so hard for scholars to spell "ABC"?
However,
"music" has never been
neutral. Mind Control or Shepherding people have always known that
you NEED music to change the laws of God.
For
instance, as the
superstitious pagans believed that the "gods" dwelled in their
musical instruments and HIT OR TWANGED OR YANKED the strings caused
the "gods" dwelling inside to speak a message of magical
revelation:
"Sound
effects can have a numinous (spiritual) character
and may
be used to bring about
contact with the realm of the holy. A specific tone
may call one to an awareness of the holy, make the holy
present, and produce an experience of the holy.
This
may be done by
means of drums,
gongs, bells,
or other
instruments.
The
ritual instruments can,
through their shape
or the materials from which they are
made, have symbolic meaning. The
Uitoto in Colombia, for example, believe that all
the
souls of their ancestors are contained
in the ritual drums.
(See liturgical music BM members.)
The
Egyptians from whom the
Israelites "borrowed" their instruments to RISE UP TO PLAY at Mount
Sinai knew full well that, to the ignorant and superstitious,
INSTRUMENTAL SOUND created a real or "oral orgasm."
"Theodoret (Quasten, Music
& Worship, p. 65) claimed that
the Jews
brought liturgical music from
Egypt
and Philo wrote
that "Moses learned rhythm, harmony, meter and everything concerned
with instrumental music from the Egyptians." This is why Moses knew
that the noise at Mount
Sinai
was not the sound
of defeat or of victory. Rather, it was the "sound of them singing
that I hear."
The
Jews sang in
the type of the Egyptian threnodies
(elegies for the
dead):
Thus
they made a
golden
bull,
the image of an
animal that was held to be the most sacred in that land; they offered
unholy sacrifices, performed impious dances
and sang
hymns
which differed in
no way from the pagan
mourning songs. Philo,
De specialibus legibus
This
explains the MARZEAH
condemned by Amos in chapters 5, 6 and 8 and Isaiah in chapter 8.
Because the people had been SENTENCED to worship the starry host
because of the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, their "music" and
festival was a "ritual WITH and FOR dead ancestors" or the
demons.
Last
but not least, Paul knew
and warned the Corinthians and others about AUTHENTIA or sexual
authority well documented by Euripedes in Bacchae
and
the modern Vineyard
movement and the Wineskins movement, the goal of music has always
been to make the Spirit have an orgasm:
Come, ye Bacchae, come, ye Bacchae, bringing down (double entendre) Bromius, (boisterous
one) god the child of god, out
of the Phrygian mountains into the broad highways of Greece.
"Come Holy
Spirit, come, make us truly new creatures
in Christ"
Some things you DON'T DO
because they are
wrong. For instance, singing, clapping, dancing, playing instruments
with the LAST ACT with the Holy Whore always went together in
paganism. Why should "sincere" people want to make the literate
wonder?
However,
Thomas Campbell
wrote and believed that there was Biblical authority for what we do
in a collective sense:
Our
desire, therefore, for
ourselves and our brethren would be, that,
rejecting
human
opinions and the
inventions
of
men
as of any
authority, or as having any place
in the Church of God, we
might forever cease from
further contentions about such things;
To
Mike Armour:
That DOES NOT MEAN that we should not contend with those who teach
false doctrine.
returning to and holding fast by
the
original
standard;
- taking
the Divine word alone for our rule;
- the
Holy Spirit for our teacher and guide, to lead us
into all truth;
- and
Christ alone, as exhibited in the
word, for our salvation;
that,
by so doing, we may be at
peace among
ourselves, follow peace
with all men, and holiness,
without which no man
shall see the Lord.
When
Mike Armour
ridicules returning to the first century Bible (that was when it was
written) he must denounce Campbell and most religious people for
2,000 years.
All
of the Restoration Movement
leaders repudiated instrumental music and therefore this was not a
matter to be decided.
MARS
is the same in the
"god" realm as SATURN. Saturn's number in the original Chaldee is
666.
And
the image of THRUSTING IN THE SICKLE
in coming judgment is significant that the MARK of Saturn was the
sickle. And the sickle or pruning hook in the Hebrew is derived from
the name of a MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.
Therefore,
the Disciples
bragged about promoting a worship like that devoted to MARS or SATURN
or the other Wandering Stars or planets.
The
PROOF TEXT used
on
Alexander
Campbell by Mr. G. was:
If martial music thus inspires the worshippers of Mars, will sacred music do
less for the
humble followers of the meek and lowly Jesus--the worshippers of the
true and living God?
Those
who disagreed believed
that the FIRST STEP of disposing of the Bible in song and sermon was
to introduce secular hymns which were considered
IDOLS.
However, Alexander
Campbell responds to the
letter from Mr. G:
The
argument drawn
from the Psalms in favor of instrumental music,
is
exceedingly apposite to the
Roman
Catholic, English
Protestant, and Scotch Presbyterian churches, and even to
the Methodist communities.
Their
churches having all the
world in them--that is, all the fleshly
progeny of all the communicants, and
being
founded on the
Jewish
pattern of
things--baptism
being given to all born into the world of these politico-ecclesiastic communities--
I
wonder not, then, that an
organ, a fiddle,
or a Jews-harp, should be requisite to
stir
up their carnal hearts, and work into ecstasy their animal
souls,
else
"hosannahs languish on their tongues, and their devotions die."
And
that all persons who have
no
spiritual
discernment, taste, or
relish for their spiritual meditations, consolations and
sympathies of renewed hearts,
should call for such aid, is but natural.
Pure
water
from the flinty rock has no attractions
for the mere toper or wine-bibber. A little alcohol, or genuine Cognac
brandy, or good old Madeira, is
essential to the beverage to make it truly refreshing.
So
to those who have no real devotion or spirituality in
them,
and whose animal
nature flags under the oppression of church service, I think with Mr.
G., that instrumental music would be not only a desideratum, but an
essential
prerequisite to fire up
their souls to even animal devotion.
But
I presume,
to all spiritually-minded Christians, such aids would be as a cow
bell in a concert.
Alexander
Campbell
Therefore, Mike Armour
endorsed by Bammel Road,
the Disciples of Christ, the Christian church, and Eastern European
Missions has no trouble misusing either the Words of God or the Words
of the Campbells to make a totally false Hegelian (Markist) attack on
churches of Christ.
The
effort is to
DISSOCIATE or throw the weak minded into a form of schizophrenia as a
desirable STATE of post-modern CONVERSION.
Once
they have made you
UNHAPPY by believing all of the false propoganda.
Then,
they can hit you while
you are weak to teach a musical system Mr. G. agrees is the end-time
Saturn (666) form of sexual worship.
Thomas
Campbell might agree to
let you believe whatever you wanted to believe but he understood with
all of the literate world that if you want UNITY then you have to
base your public practices on the Bible.
The
Bible not only DOES NOT
prescribe any form of music as worship to God. Paul's word was TEACH
or PREACH using "that which is written."
Those
who ADDED instruments did
so with no NEED for Bible authority because they said: "We gonna do
it spite of hell."
It is
an ignored fact that the
Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians did not use instruments. It
was later when the Disciples tried to build a SOCIETY or Cult to in
the mind of J. H. Garrison include "all of Christendom" that divison
was promoted. They even toured the South trying to sign up children
as LIFE MEMBERS.
The
second problem was the
legal and legalist attempt to force all churches of Christ to JOIN
the instrumental practice. They, in fact, stole the church houses of
widows just as they are doing right now.
When
the OWNERS decided that
they could not violate the Bible and 1800 years of WELL-KNOWN
rejection of "the works of human hands" as a form of worship, they
left.
The
spiritual ancestors of Mike
Armour accused them of sowing discord and BECOMMING sectarian because
they would not BOW TO BAAL. Luther did claim that the ORGAN was the
ensign or MARK OF BAAL.
However,
it is literacy 101aaa
that those who INTRODUCE new practices over the views generally held
by the group are the SECTARIANS. Nevertheless, the dishonesty with
Scripture which allowed them to steal the church property allowed
them to use the GUILT
CLAUSE invented by
Adam when the NACHASH or "musical enchanter" didn't even have to be
SEDUCED.
First,
let us note that a
cappella is ala the
Pope's castrated choir
for the Sistine Chapel and is not remotely related to the direct
command of Paul to TEACH the inspired Word with no hint of a musical
content.
Mike
Armour:
The
non-instrumental position depended
entirely
on
historical precedents
from the first century
and on inferences drawn from
the handful of
Biblical passages that
mention music in the
early church.
One
has to be truly shocked
that EEM would USE such ignorance to teach the Ukraines who
APPARENTLY cannot follow the direct command to the Evangelist
Timothy: "Give attendance to the (public) reading of the Word, to
exhorting that Word and to Doctrine taught by that word."
Is
Mike Armour
truly ignorant of the history of the use of Instrumental Music as
rejected by all early church scholars. Furthermore, instrumental
music was ALWAYS associated with the pagan temples which used male
and female prostitutes. To play and sing at the same time identify
one as a prostitute. For a male to sing and play at the same time
MARKED him as a sodomite even around the Jerusalem temple.
Can
the Ukraines NOT read or
is someone doing the will of the Devil defined by Jesus as a liar
because "he speaks on his own"?
>
Churches
which called themselves "the
church of Christ" rejected the use of instruments prior to the Disciples who
IMPOSED instruments and FORCED
the older and more literate members to leave.
>
Any
minimal reading of the Bible would
show that Satan used the "serpent" which was not a snake. The
Naga
or
Nagash or Nachash is an
eastern MUSICAL ENCHANTER. The story of Jubal who "handled" musical
instruments where "handled" means WITHOUT AUTHORITY is further told
in the Book of Enoch, Jubilees and even the Babylonian Tablets. Satan
taught Jubal under various names how to seduce the holy people from
the Living Word using instrumental music, seductive dress, mixed sex
choirs and homosexual love. This is why Jude and Enoch show that God
will come for the musical perverters.
>
The
musical idolatry at Mount Sinai
informed the churches of Christ. The use of the Kings who used music
was known by these scholars to be God's way of leading the Israelites
into captivity and death.
>
The
literate people of the Restoration
Movement knew that singing beautiful songs and playing instruments
was compared by God through Ezekiel as those who would treat both God
and Ezekiel as homosexual lovers.
>
The
non-instrumental position depended
on the prophecy of Psalm 41 that Judas would try to triumph over
Jesus where "triumph over" meant to play instruments and "make a
joyful noise before the Lord." The DSS version of Psalm 41 has the
Levitical Warrior musicians treating Messiah like Beliar to be
destroyed using musical instruments.
>
The
non-instrumental people who existed
in a non-broken practice forever knew that the Jewish clergy piped
trying to get Jesus to do the Dionysus song and dance to prove that
He was their pervert, Dionysus the "god of wine and new wineskins"
whom they had worshiped in the temple as the "Abomination of
desolation.
>
The
knew that Jesus "cast out" the
musical worship team "more or less violently." Even the illiterate
probably knew that the command to TEACH using the Biblical metrical
material WAS NOT a command for music.
>
Having
read Psalm 18 they probably
understood that the MARK of the end time worship would be
Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) who
had a musical
seeker center at Delphi with his/her "team" of 9 muses.
>
They
assuredly knew that the church
existed about 1250 years before instruments were used frequently and
then not in the face of the Pope who represented "christ" to
them.
>
The
non instrumental position depends on
any scholarship which recognizes the MUSICAL message in the garden of
Eden. In EVERY example of people using instruments in connection with
worship the people have already told God: We will not listen to YOUR
words. Only spiritual blindness or an ulterior AGENDA can make such a
statement contrary to the totality of the Bible and history.
Neither
the Old or New
Testament uses the word MUSIC related to "worship."
The
"music" OUTSIDE of the
temple in Jerusalem was never called MUSIC. The Holy Spirit always
calls it NOISE. The service of the Levitical instrumentalists was not
called worship but HARD BONDAGE. They drove the slaves to build the
temple and drove any straglers around the temple during ANIMAL
SACRIFICES to the ground.
Musical
"noise makers" who
served the PRIESTS in "hard bondage" NEVER went into the Holy Place
as a carnal type of the church of Christ even to clean out the
garbage.
Look
again EEM before you
subvert the Ukraines!
Singing
and Playing instruments
outside of animal sacrifices around the temple was by SODOMITES and women prostitute
singers. Their instruments in Hebrew identify
sexual perversion or "taking your
inheritance." The Hebrew Chalal like HALAL means to "play the flute,
pollute or prostitute."
Paul
deliberately DID NOT USE
the great word for MUSIC (sumphonia) which is used only of SECULAR
parties.
The
prophecy of musical mocking
of Jesus by the "warrior" musicians under the KING and COMMANDERS OF
THE ARMY was fulfilled. Jesus speaks eloquently AGAINST musical TEAMS
to the literate whose eyes He has not already blinded.
Paul
OUTLAWED outward melody
which was abrading or polluting and defineld INWARD melody since
Jesus said that God looks for worship ONLY In the human spirit or
Mind.
The
end-time Babylon Prostitute
religion has several Old Testament TYPES. Therefore, end-time
PROSTITUTE religion will have music and musicians.
NONE
of the early history fails
to understand that MUSIC was the arena of innocent children or male
and female prostitutes.
Too
bad that Bammel Church and
EEM has chosen Mike Armour to INSPIRE the Biblical text so the people
in the Ukraine can GRASP IT.
The
Hegel or Markist
psychological violence.
Because
Mike Armour ALREADY
FELLOWSHIPS and APPROVES of instrumental music then the following
statement must be taken as an instrumentalists violence to DISSOCIATE
or Hegel non-instrumentalists
by making them feel guilty if they do not engage in the Baby Burning
music of both Israel and Judah:
Mike
Armour:
By
refusing
fellowship with those who used instruments,
a
cappella
churches were
effectively elevating "necessary inferences" and apostolic examples to a new plateau of
authority.
Now
disagreements over
inferences and examples, no less than violations of direct
commands, could justify
a withdrawal or withholding of fellowship.
When
the musical group which
NEVER used the Bible as authority "infiltrated and diverted" the
church and then "stole the church house of widows" and then
prohibited the old "owners" from teaching what the church had always
taught by telling them that they would be "sowing discord" then many
were forced to leave and indeed some were DRIVEN OUT.
When
you are
forcefully ejected from your own property it takes some strange
twists of illogic to claim that the EXPELLED refused to fellowship
the spiritual Carpet Baggers who kicked them out.
How
can such perversion of
historical facts qualify one to be the Teacher of the Ukraines BETTER
than the Bible?
When
the Old and New Testament
and all of the church Fathers held the same view which churches of
Christ NEVER ALTERED then how can you say that they ELEVATED
something new? Indeed, the instrumentalists said that instruments
were so important that it was worth SOWING DISCORD AMONG BRETHREN.
One simply does not know where Mike armour gets his theology unless
he is in bed with the DISCIPLES OF CHRIST in which case HE DOES NOT
represent churches of Christ.
When
the direct command is to
TEACH or PREACH with NO MUSICAL implications then you don't have to
INFER anything. When that direct command has Lord Jesus Christ
repudiating musical teams and chanting the Psalms as "an approved
example" then you don't have to infer anything. Mike Armour may see
the entire Bible "sifted through philosophy and the Bible writer's
personal agenda" and therefore been blinded as Jesus warned the
musical group in Matthew 13.
Sowing
of discord by the instrumentalists was
confounded by lying about the Guilt Clause:
"There
were those
saying that they could "not abide the election of a Republican
President." In which event they
would destroy the Union.
"And
then, you say,
the
great
crime
of having
destroyed it will be
upon us!
That
is cool.
A
highwayman holds a pistol to
my ear, and mutters through his teeth,
"Stand
and deliver,
or I shall kill you,
and
then you will be a murderer." Abraham
Lincoln, Frost, Vol. 1, p. 274
A
rich man does wrong, and
he even adds reproaches; a poor man suffers wrong, and he must add
apologies Ecclesu
13:3.
And
we venture to think that
not those who disapprove
of,
but
those
who introduce services and peculiarities which are trifling and
insignificant,
are
the guilty parties
here.
The
issue is not WITHDRAWING
FELLOWSHIP: since there is no denominational structure the PROOF TEXT
was meant by the Campbells to mean that you CANNOT DISCORD or ADD any
practice to the
existing church without some
Biblical authority
to do so.
Since
the
instrumental SECTARIANS forced instruments in
against the Bible, history and
the will of the people THEY BROKE fellowship. Only eleminating the
end-time Babylon practices can fellowship on a "broader" level can
restore it.
Bible
students for 2,000 years
know that you have VIOLATED a DIRECT COMMAND when you retranslate
(for the Ukraine) HEART
to now mean HARP.
There
is no MUSICAL CONCEPT
in Paul's writing.
Rather, his direct commands are to GLORIFY GOD by TEACHING with one
mouth "that which is written, the Spirit or Word and the Words of
Christ."
It is
a HISTORICAL fact that
SECTARIANS added instruments knowing that they would SOW DISCORD.
Those who once owned the property were forced to get out or sin
willfully.
Objectors
who continued to meet
with the newly imposed instruments WERE NOT ALLOWED to protest or
teach against them. Those who objected were put out of instrumental
churches.
You
cannot WITHDRAW
fellowship with those who have excommunicated you both in faith and
practice.
Thomas
Campbell insisted
that CHANGES or ADDITIONS be based on EXPLICIT COMMANDS.
Whatever
alterations [Changes to
the existing practices] this might produce in any or in all of the
Churches, should, we think, neither be deemed inadmissible nor
ineligible. Surely such alteration would be every way for the better,
and not for the worse,
unless we
should suppose the divinely-inspired rule to be
faulty, or defective.
Were
we, then, in our Church
constitution and managements, to exhibit a complete conformity to the
apostolic
Church, would we not
be, in that respect, as perfect as Christ intended we should be?
And should not this
suffice us?
What
does Mike Armour and
EEM have which is SUPERIOR to the Word delivered by Jesus Christ, the
Holy Spirit?
Never
having read most of the
Bible not required to FILL THE PULPIT these false teachers just
embarass themselves among anyone ever having READ the Old Testament
and church history.
The
NAMES of all musical terms
and instruments are named after evil, destructive or sexually
polluting practices. EVERY Biblical example of the use of music has
the people treating God and the prophets as musical prostitutes or
telling God: "We will not listen to your words."
The
entire Bible repudiates
music as antithetical to spiritual worship: too bad they haven't
heard because the Word went out.
The
Levitical sounders would
later MOCK Jesus but never make music in a spiritual sense.
God
promised another PROPHET
through Moses:
I
will raise them up a Prophet
from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will
put my words in his
mouth; and
he
shall
speak unto them all that I shall command
him.
Deut 18:18
And
it shall come
to pass, that whosoever will
not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Deut 18:19
But
the prophet, which shall
presume to speak a word in my
name,
which
I have
not
commanded him to
speak,
or that shall
speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. Deut 18:20
Jesus
delivered what the
Father said:
For I
have not spoken of
myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and
what
I should speak. Jn.12:49
And I
know that his
commandment
is life
everlasting: whatsoever
I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Jn.12:50
It
is the
spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth
nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit,
and they are life.
John 6:63
Henceforth
I call you not
servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have
called you friends;
for
all
things that I have
heard of my Father
I have made known unto
you.
Jn.15:15
To
the elders:
And
the book is delivered to
him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he
saith, I am not
learned. Isaiah 29:12
Wherefore
the Lord
said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their
mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have
removed their heart far from
me,
and
their fear toward me is
taught
by the precept of
men:
Isaiah 29:13 (to
the tune of a hickory stick or an oxgoad)
Therefore,
behold,
I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a
marvellous work and a wonder:
>
for the wisdom of their wise men
shall
perish,
>
and the understanding of their
prudent men shall be
hid. Isaiah
29:14
For
it is written, I will
destroy
the wisdom of
the wise, and will
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 1 Cor 1:19
Where
is the
wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not
God made foolish the wisdom
of this world?1Co.1:20
For
after that in
the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased
God by the foolishness of
preaching to save
them that believe. 1 Cor 1:21
See
the universal testimony which proves that the
Bible and all
church scholarship until recently has insisted that whatever is
IMPOSSED on everyone must be ONLY that which is commanded or fairly
exampled in the Bible. Yes, inferences were always part of the
literate way to determine authority.
Click for an
index
to
prove that instrumental music has always been for female children or
for the male and female prostitute. It is NEVER used for spiritual
worship and it is ALWAYS associated with and is a MARK of people who
will not listen to the Word of God.
Mike
Armour and his band can
find NO Biblical authority for music AS worship. In fact the early
MUSICAL SECTARIANS declared to a judge in Tennessee that IF
instrumental noise WAS considered WORSHIP then it would be
SINFUL.
However,
they are
slicker than
the serpent in the garden of Eden. His Hebrew name NACHASH is the
ancient NAGA: he was really a MUSICAL ENCHANTER as was his CHANGE
AGENTS Jubal.
Mike
Armour has been a prime
mover in UNITY MOVEMENTS. These are meetings where Christian churches
who PRACTICE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC meet with members of the church of
Christ who BELIEVE IN INSTRUMENT MUSIC. Out of this "conflict" they
all decide for ALL CHURCHES OF CHRIST that they were wrong to NOT try
to worship with instruments. And unless they REPENT and begin to
FELLOWSHIP all of the RACA words invented by mankind falls on the
head of those who will not BOW TO
BAAL at ACU by Rubel Shelly.
These
men reject
the totality of ancient Babylonian Tower practices, the Bible which
repudiates instruments, the New Testament where Christ repudiates the
PIPERS trying to pervert Him, tossing the "musical worship team out
'more or less violently'," and Paul's DIRECT COMMAND to teach or
preach that which is written by DELIBERATELY:
Specifying
INTERNAL
melody because EXTERNAL melody is not musical but speaks of grinding
one into a fine powder as they tried to melt the heart of
Jesus.
Specifying
SPEAKING OR TEACHING
OR PREACHING with "that which is written" because the form called
SINGING was always a secular practice.
Did
not use the only MUSICAL
word (sumphonia) which speaks of a band or "team" producing concord.
This musical word is reserved for the party with singing, dancing,
drinking and playing instruments.
The
word translated
MUSICIANS speaks ONLY of the "Musical Worship Team" of Apollo who is
Apollyon or Abaddon. These were 9 sister singers who traveled around
with Apollo (Satan).
This
is the end time imitation
of the same practice of Nimrod at the Towers of Babylon where
the
WORSHIP
TEAMS included PROSTITUTES.
Bammel
Church, EEM and Mike
Armour Conspiring to Destroy Biblical Baptism which was RADICALLY
CHANGED about 1500 to SUPPORT Calvinistic predestination.
The
Campbells once met with
Baptists when they were disfellowshipped from the Presbyterians.
However, Alexander and Thomas Campbell left the Baptists when they
COULD NOT ACCEPT "believer's
baptism" which was hatched about 1500 and is a form of PAGAN
BAPTISM.
Mike
Armour:
At
the same time the instrumental controversy was coming to
prominence, a narrow view of baptism took
root in a cappella churches.
It
resurrected an
earlier controversy from the 1830s sparked by Dr. John Thomas, who
ultimately left the Disciples and began the Christadelphians.
Thomas
insisted on rebaptizing
anyone who had been immersed without
an explicit understanding that baptism was for the remission of sins.
Alexander
Campbell
stoutly
resisted Thomas in this
matter and even issued two extras of the Millennial Harbinger to deal with it. From
the beginning both Stone and Campbell
had accepted
Baptists into their fellowship without
reimmersion. And in the John Thomas affair Campbell once more built
the case for their practice.
Alexander
Campbell was once a
"baptist" so why
shouldn't he have
believed them until he LEARNED BETTER.
However, as he
became more Bible literate he
changed his mind and repudiated Believer's
Baptism which is 'Pagan Baptism.'
Hear Mr.
Campbell: "That there are some
worthy Baptists exactly accords
with the views
of
some of our brethren
long since expressed; that as it was with the Jews, in the times of
the Messiah and his apostles, so it is now with the Baptists.
The
nation. as such, continued
to be the kingdom of God, until they rejected the offered
salvation;
so
the
present
kingdom of God was
found amongst those who plead for faith,
repentance, and baptism,
as
necessary to admission into the
kingdom of grace,
until the present call
upon them to reformation.
Since
the rejection of that
call by them,
as
a people.
or
SO FAR AS ANY OF
THEM HAVE APPOSED THIS REFORMATION,
THEY
ARE
NOT
OF THE KINGDOM OF
GOD:
AND ESPECIALLY
SUCH AS HAVE BEEN IMMERSED BY THEM, HAVING HEARD BEFORE THEIR
IMMERSION THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL, ARE UNWORTHY OF THE
CONFIDENCE OF THE BRETHREN OF THE REFORMATION.
(Millennial Harbenger, Vol. 7, page 57).
Do
you believe Mike Armour
or Alexander Campbell?
The Ephesian 12
believed their baptism to be
valid but when they learned better they were baptized with CHRISTIAN
baptism.
Of
John Smyth's
view:
'That
baptism ought
to be received by none,
but
such as can
give a good account of their faith;
and
in case any have been
baptized
in their
infancy, that they
ought to he rebaptized after they come to
years of discretion, before they
are to be admitted to the church of Christ.
Why isn't John
Smyth bigoted and narrow
minded?
Would Mike Armour accept the
baptismal
regeneration of one "baptized" at 8 days? Probably not. What keeps
him from being as NARROW MINDED?
Alexander
Campbell: Characters, not
persons, as such, are the
subjects of baptism.
Penitent
believers - not
infants nor adults, not males nor females, not Jews nor Greeks;
but
professors of repentance towards God, and
faith in Christ
- are the proper
subjects of this ordinance.
Would
Mike Armour have the
AUTHORITY to approve the salvation of one who didn't really believe
that Jesus Christ was Full Deity and not 1/3 of a god
family?
What if a person believes
that YOU are not
predestinated to heaven but HE is predestinated to heaven. Therefore,
you are predestinated to hell. He has ben SAVED and God gave him the
High Five by speaking in tongues or barking like a dog at Caneridge.
You haven't barked like a dog or fought over the garbage therefore
YOU are not saved and CANNOT be baptized.
He then ARROGANTLY denies
the value of Baptism
to do what Jesus, Paul and Peter said it would do; and the church
held that it would do before Zwingli.
He says "i donn hav ta." I
have been saved by
FAITH ONLY and I was baptized BECAUSE I was predestinated to be
saved.
Do you believe that he is OK
because you are OK
or do you teach him the Biblical facts?
Only if you have made a
strong effort to
pervert the views of the Campbells AFTER they refused to accept the
Baptist Dogma of believer's baptism or pagan baptism.
Baptists should far and
wide that
one who believes that baptism is FOR (in order to) the remission of
sins belongs to a Satanic Cult. Would they accept one who had been
baptized without a supernatural story to tell and without rebaptism?
No.
So, Mike Armour is out to
stomp the life out of
the church he takes his pay from.
John Calvin:
Such
in the present
day are our Catabaptists, who deny that we are duly baptised, because
we were baptised in the Papacy by wicked men and idolaters; hence
they furiously insist on anabaptism.
Be
it that those who baptised
us were most ignorant of
God and all piety, or
were despisers,
still
they did not
baptise us into a fellowship with their ignorance or sacrilege, but
into
the faith of Jesus
Christ, because the
name which they invoked was not their own but God's, nor did they
baptise into any other name.
But
if baptism
was of God,
it
certainly
included in it the promise of forgiveness
of sin,
mortification
of the
flesh,
quickening
of the spirit, and communion with Christ.
Therefore,
John Calvin
insisted that Catholic Baptism was valid ONLY if it INCLUDED the
FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
BAPTIST
claim superiority
and that the were SAVED from eternity past by predestination. When
they belived they are baptized into the BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP
Therefore,
John Calvin would
repudiate Baptist baptism and undoubtedly insist that they be
baptized with Christian baptism.
Did
people in the 1800
invent this TRUTH or is it universally held?
Is
Mike Armour correct in
attributing this notion to the NON-INSTRUMENTAL churches of Christ?
No.
If you have NOT
been baptized with the
BAPTIST form of baptism, Max Lucado will not let you be an insider in
HIS church. Neither will baptists. One doubts that Mike Armour would
accept you into the Inner circles if you would preach that remission
of sins was connected by Jesus Christ (In that olden
document).
Of course that is just fabricated.
Thomas Campbell left the Presbyterians before he could be
excommunicated for permitting Presbyterians WITHOUT the token to
commune with a DIFFERENT type of Presbyterians. Churches of Christ
emphasize baptism for everyone who has not been baptized because THE
ACCEPTED THE COUNSEL OF GOD FOR THEIR LIVES that at Baptism God would
remit their sins and give them a new or HOLY spirit or a gift of
co-perception. After that, churches of christ put the emphasis on the
"contents" by having it AT THE FOCUS and below the pulpit. Musical
Worship Teams are putting the Lord's Table in the foyer to give them
more room for singing, swaying, clapping hands and playing
instruments. Assuredly to promote musical worship teams it to PUT
DOWN the Lord as the center or focus.