Review of a Baptist pamphlet Fort Victory Baptist Church, Crowley, TX

This study is not intended to: Offend those who are Baptist or who have Baptist family and friends. Ephesians 4:15 Matthew 15:12-13 Say that all Baptists are immoral. Acts 10:2,6; 11:14

This study is not intended to: Say that Baptists don’t do good works. Matthew 7:21-23 Condemn those who have lived and died as Baptists to Hell. Matthew 5:36 Hebrews 9:27; John 5:27, 12:48; Romans 2:16 Luke 16:19-31

We have been commanded to examine what we are taught. 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 1 John 3:24 – 4:1 Matthew 7:15 2 John 9-11 Revelation 2:14-16

Romans 7:9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. Ezekiel 18:20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

2 Peter 1:2-4 Ephesians 4:17-24 v. 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, Matthew 18:1-3

The Vicarious Death of Christ?? - 4 This scheme destroys the ideas of grace and forgiveness. For if my surety or substitute has fully discharged my debt, having paid the real, proper and full demand for me, can it be grace in my creditor to forgive me? God is proposed as an example to us, how we should forgive one another. Eph. iv:32, ‘forgiving one another, even as God (en Christo) in Christ hath forgiven you.;’ Matt. vi:12 - we are taught to pray, ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Now if God does not forgive us till our debts are paid, and he is our example, then must we do likewise! If my surety fully discharged my debts for me, though I am free from my creditor, yet I am not in debt to my surety, who, for the same reason, can not forgive me; for he must forgive even as God does. On this principle there can be no forgiveness in the universe forever." Works of Elder B.W. Stone, page 121. The Vicarious Death of Christ?? - 4 by Maurice Barnett http://www.biblebanner.com/ga_art/deity/vicar4.htm

Jesus didn’t die as our substitute. He died as a sin offering. 1 John 2:2  And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Hebrews 9:22-28, 10:12-13 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; 1 Peter 1:17-19

Acts 2:40 And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” (ESV) Philippians 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; John 6:28-29, Faith is a work – a work of God. Cf. Ephesians 2:10, Hebrews 5:9, James 2:24 James 2:19 John 12:42-43

Calling Upon the Name of the Lord Romans 10:9-17 Acts 2:21, 37-38, 40-41 Acts 22:16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’ 1 Peter 3:21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

God’s Revealed Plan of Salvation Hear – 1 Corinthians 1:21, Romans 1:16, Mark 16:15, Romans 10:17, Hebrews 11:6 Believe – John 8:24, John 6:29 Repent – Luke 13:3 Confess – Matthew 10:32-33 Be Baptized – Mark 16:16 Be Faithful – Hebrews 3:12