Sabbath 18/4/42/120

Dear Friends,

This Sabbath we will continue on in the process of understanding the Covenant of God. Before we issue the paper on Christianity and Islam in the Covenant of God (No, 096C) in which we explain the covenant in both elements of the faith and the Church of God as the Body of Christ, we will examine the matter of the Law of God in the Covenant.

In the early church we could always tell a fake Christian by what they said. If you came across a person who said that they were Christians and that when they died they went to heaven we knew they were lying and were not Christians (cf. Justin Martyr, Dial. LXXX) (cf. Heaven, Hell or the First Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143A)).  In the same way, if they worshipped on Sundays and kept Christmas and Easter, we knew they were fakes and were Baal worshippers from the Mystery and Sun Cults (cf. God’s Calendar (No 156)).

Also if they said they had an immortal soul we knew they were Gnostic fakes and their priests were from the Mystery and Sun Cults. (cf. The Soul (No. 092) and Socratic Doctrine of the Soul (B6)).

In similar manner if they said that the Laws of God were done away we know they were Gnostic frauds who were attacking the Laws of God and asserting an antinomian basis to undermine the faith and the doctrines of the true Church.  So also if they advanced the idea that infants could be baptised they were Baal worshippers from the practice of child sacrifice or Gnostics that sought to deny baptism in the covenant. (cf. Antinomian Destruction of Christianity by Misuse of Scripture (No. 164C), Antinomian Attacks on the Laws of God (No. 164D) and also Antinomian Denial of Baptism.(No. 164E)).

They also did not understand the concepts of Truth (No. 168) or Conversion and Truth (No. 072); Nor did they understand the place in the faith of Repentance and Baptism (No. 052).

When you speak to people and they make these statements you know they are not Christians and you know that you cannot trust what they say. In the same way that if they knock on your door and start off with the set spiel you will finally pin them down and find that they do not keep the Sabbath and finally they will admit to you that the Law of God is done away. These devious hypocrites are not Christians. Their predecessors entered the Church of God and learned what they could and distorted it so they could destroy the faith. They are not Christians and will neither go into the First Resurrection (143A above) nor will they enter the millennial system without repentance. They are consigned to the Second Resurrection and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B) with the rest of the world for retraining, unless they repent.

It is important that we are able to explain the Distinction in the Law (No. 096) and so we will study that and then the basis of Antinomian Attacks on the Law of God (No. 164D above. When you see any of these people, call them on their attacks on the faith and the Covenant of God (No. 152).  The nutshell of the argument is that they all try to do away with the Laws of God and do Satan’s work for him as the god of this world (2Cor. 4:4) in removing mankind from the Covenant of God and thus destroying their position in the Elect as Elohim (No. 001) and pushing them back into the Second Resurrection. 

They must repent to enter the faith.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General