Ola,

             I’m really glad that you wrote that!

I used to be one of those people that propagated that kind of stuff.

What I presented was a “repentance-less” gospel, smoothed by easy-believism, topped off with “one, two, three, repeat after me - the ‘magic words’ that will get you to heaven”.

I would love to say that I was never guilty of that, but I was, and I played with hundreds of people’s souls.

How many people think that they are saved, because I talked them into saying a few “magic words”.

Some of my companions in that false evangelism, used to think that if someone was interrupted before they could complete saying the words, that they would not be saved.

It all came down to getting people to repeat the words. We were like salesmen getting people to sign on the dotted line. No, actually it was closer to a travelling medicine show.

 

The saying of the words is not what saves people, otherwise there would be no Matthew 7:21.

If there is godly sorrow working repentance,

faith from the word of God (Romans 10:13),

conviction of the Holy Ghost,

repentance & faith in the LORD Jesus,

then which words they say, and in which order, is not what saves them, Jesus does.

 

btw – you had written:

“Jesus Christ is the ONLY God of Heaven and Earth. Also because He IS the Everlasting Father in human form, He MUST be addressed directly”

When you wrote “He IS the Everlasting Father in human form”, I’m pretty sure that you weren’t implying what Sabellius believed back around 200 AD.

Sabellius & Praexas, were Modalistic Monarchists. Their belief was called Patripassion”, by others, since they believed that the Father, in the flesh, died on the cross.

Essentially, since they believed that the LORD was only one person, and not three, that in essence, the “Holy Ghost is Jesus the Father”, i.e. “Jesus-only”.

That those who confessed a “Trinity”, were thus “three god idolaters”,  and therefore not saved.

Why I’m pretty sure that you didn’t mean that, is because you have a love for the gospel.

So, you would have made sure that we all believe in the right Jesus, in order to be saved.

I haven’t noticed you mentioning things like that in your other letters.

So that is why I’m convinced that you wrote what you did, out of zeal for the doctrine of the Deity of Christ, rather than because of some Oneness Modalism.

                          Gino