“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3 (NKJV)
In
the only name given among men by which we must be saved, Messiah Yeshua “Jesus,”
greetings. Acts 4:12 (NKJV)
“This is the catholic (Christian)
faith; which except you believe faithfully
and firmly, you cannot be
saved.” - Last sentence of the
Anthanasian Creed.
The last sentence of the Anthanasian Creed presents a
serious problem. It says, unless one
believes the Anthanasian Creed “faithfully and firmly,” meaning 100% of
the time, one “cannot be saved.” In
defending the Anthanasian Creed, its followers happen to be wrong.
The
Anthanasian Creed was birthed in 325-AD, and makes its claim as the only
way to salvation. According to the
Anthanasian Creed, unless one believes “the Son is God” and thus the doctrine of the “Trinity” one “cannot
be saved.”
Now after John was put in prison, Jesus
came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The
time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” And as He walked by the
Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea;
for they were fishermen. Then
Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of
men.” They immediately left their nets and followed Him. Mark
1:14-18 (NKJV)
Mark 1:14-18 is plain, simple, and easy to understand. “Repent, and believe.” Simply, one is [saved] when one repents and
believes in Jesus. “They immediately left their nets and
followed” Jesus. This was the right thing to do then,
and nothing has changed since. Don’t
substitute the Anthanasian Creed for the [Bible]. You’ll have to explain why having to repent
and believe in Jesus, isn’t enough to save one’s soul if you do.
For Christ has not entered the holy
places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself
often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy place every year with blood of
another—He then would had to suffer often since the foundation of the world;
but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of Himself. And as it is
appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgement, so Christ was
offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He
will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. Hebrews 9:24-28 (NKJV)
The Anthanasian Creed is not the way to
salvation. It is however,
the wrong way to Jesus’ shed blood on the cross.
God bless.
In His Care… Jim
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