IronBladder
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How are we saved?
Almost every false sect and cult teaches the error that we’re justified by faith, most regarding faith as some kind of theological tick list, where just like a woman armed with a shopping list all you have to do to be saved is to do the various things (which you almost have to tick off a list). The UPCI is similar to many other sects in that by teaching justification by faith, they consequently reject the Protestant doctrine of justification by Grace through faith ALONE. Thus by doing this, whilst the UPCI seem to be similar to the Protestant position to the gullible and the untaught, in reality just like the Roman Catholics, the UPCI official position (taking just one illustration) is that Water Baptism is a channel through which the grace of God is given to us. This position is commonly known as Baptismal Regeneration, it doesn’t teach salvation by water baptism alone, but instead regards water baptism as a means by which the grace of God is then given to us as we obey and comply with God’s tick list of commands.
So the UPCI claims that justification is given to us effectively (even if they’ll never admit to it) as some kind of wage, which we earn as we obey a tick list of God’s various commands; repentance, faith, confession, water baptism, tongues, no TV, certain hair cuts, regular tithing and evangelism etc. The God of the UPCI loves us only dependent upon our works for him and not simply dependent upon his work on the cross for us. So the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the possession of various Spiritual gifts and even being born-again is insufficient for most (if not all) UPCI ministers. For most UPCI ministers will happily condemn tongues speaking, Assemblies of God, Baptist and Anglican people to hell as unsaved, even if they do claim to have been born again, to have been adopted as Children of God and are also indwelt by the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues!
The reason for this hard hearted UPCI position which most if not all UPCI ministers believe is the false doctrine of salvation by faith! For we’re not saved by our own faith, but by God’s grace and that through faith (Ephesians 2:9), why even this true saving faith is given to us by God as a gift (2nd Timothy 2:25) and so we can’t possibly earn it or ever deserve it. Furthermore it’s also given to us whilst we’re still lost in our sins and still unregenerated (Romans 4:1-5). Notice especially Romans 4:5, where we read that God … ‘justifies the ungodly.’ That my friends is true salvation, which is by grace through faith ALONE, it’s this fact which above all else consequently disproves the heresy of salvation by faith. The RC, JW, LDS and UPCI religions all teach a variation on the same theme, namely that God justifies the Godly, as we obey his tick list of various salvation commands. Different cults focus upon different commands and so come up with different tick lists. But they all need to read Romans 4:5, and discover the true God of the Bible, who only ever justifies the ungodly whilst they are still undeserving and still in their sins, without any tick lists whatsoever
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6/27/2007, 12:47 pm
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