{"id":81828,"date":"2010-10-06T13:44:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/what-is-the-relationship-between-the-church-of-the-apostles-and-the-baptist-church"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T06:40:15","slug":"what-is-the-relationship-between-the-church-of-the-apostles-and-the-baptist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/what-is-the-relationship-between-the-church-of-the-apostles-and-the-baptist-church\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the relationship between the Church of the Apostles and the Baptist Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the theological debate on September 30,\u00a0I was asked\u00a0this question:<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is the relationship between the Church of the Holy Apostles and the Baptist Church?<\/em><\/span> Do you not see the need for historical continuity?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Baptist Church is the result of the\u00a0returning of the Christians to the pure Christian teaching and\u00a0living,\u00a0as it was in the Church of the Apostles.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Faithfulness to the sound doctrine of God\u2019s Word<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Holy Apostles preached the Word of God\u00a0of the Old Testament and the teaching they had heard and learned from the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span> They were moved by the Holy Spirit, inspired and used by God to write His Word in the books that now constitute the New Testament.<\/span> In the Baptist Church\u00a0only the Word of God is preached and\u00a0no other books or doctrines of men are\u00a0considered to have\u00a0the same divine authority as the canonical books of the Old and New Testament have.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holy Apostles did not know and did not preach the teachings of men that were later written by men, called \u201cHoly Tradition\u201d and that contradict each other and certain parts and doctrines come in contrast to the sound doctrine of God\u2019s Word.<\/span><\/p>\n

The apostles warned us in their writings about the dangers of\u00a0deviation of Christians from the sound doctrine of God\u2019s Word.<\/span> Here are a few such warnings:<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Jude wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span> (Jude 1:3)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On departure from Ephesus, when he fare welled to the elders, the apostle Paul said:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBe on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.\u00a0I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;\u00a0and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them<\/strong>.\u00a0Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.\u00a0And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. (<\/strong>Acts 20:28-32)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The apostle was very conscious about the trends that would occur in the church and he warned the disciples and urged them to remain faithful to the Word of God that contains everything we need for our spiritual edification and to inherit eternal life with all the saints.<\/span> Contrary to the Word of God, the promoters of so-called \u201cHoly Tradition\u201d seek to ascribe to it\u00a0the same authority as the Scriptures\u00a0have and to convince us that without it we can not be saved and live a Christian life in all its fullness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baptist Church believes that the Word of God\u2019s grace,\u00a0contained in the Holy Scriptures of the\u00a0Old and New Testament are sufficient to\u00a0spiritually build us\u00a0and can give us salvation and an inheritance among all the saints.<\/span><\/p>\n

About\u00a0the historical continuity<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Belonging of a person, group of people or denomination to the Church of Christ is valid as long as a person, group or denomination remain faithful to the teaching of the Holy Scripture.<\/span> The Apostle Paul wrote in this regard as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSo then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God\u2019s household,\u00a0having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Ephesians 2:19-20)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Those who have strayed from the sound doctrine of the Apostles and invented and added another teaching which they\u00a0have put\u00a0at the same level with the Scriptures or they have even replaced the Scriptures, can not claim historical continuity.<\/span> We are fellow citizens with the saints and people of God\u2019s house as long as we remain built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, i.e. the teaching\u00a0contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here I would like to make an analogy.<\/span> When\u00a0we were a\u00a0part of the former Soviet Union, those who loved this land and freedom started a national liberation movement.<\/span> This movement was consolidated in a party whose leaders have changed over time and whose values and visions were different.<\/span> At a certain stage, within that party they made decisions and then actions totally contrary to initial values and vision of the leaders who started the movement.<\/span> Can such a party pretend\u00a0the argument of historical continuity since they left the original values and vision?<\/span> Maybe they come up with such \u201carguments\u201d but they are untrue, just as that party has no historical continuity because\u00a0it essentially became another one and kept\u00a0for itself only the name and a history falsely attributed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baptist Church historical continuity is a continuity in the truth,\u00a0because Christians of this denomination have chosen to return to the pure teaching of the Scriptures\u00a0to preach and to live it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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An important aspect to be specified at the outset is that nowhere in the Bible ordination or laying on of hands\u2026","rel":"","context":"<span class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-author\">Vasile Filat<\/span>","block_context":{"text":"Answers from the Bible","link":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/answer-from-the-bible\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51597,"url":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/antioch-church-evangelism-discipleship-mission\/","url_meta":{"origin":81828,"position":4},"title":"The Church from Antioch – an example of evangelism, discipleship and mission","author":"Vasile Filat","date":"December 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Nowadays there is so much discussion and at the same time, much confusion in Christianity regarding evangelism, discipleship and mission and especially when it is spoken about the way how these three esential aspects of the Christian ministry must interact with each other. 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