HAVE YOU TRULY BEEN BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT?
My review of Rev. Paul C. Jong's HAVE YOU TRULY BEEN BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT?
In a time of mainstream Christianity, the book preaches the gospel of the water (the baptism of Jesus) and the Spirit as believed in and preached by the apostles in the early church and the disciples of Jesus, underlying the lawlessness of the sacrificial offering in the Old Testament without the laying on of hands as similar to believing in just the Cross or the blood of Jesus in the New Testament without His baptism at the Jordan River as an act of incomplete faith. So the book demands genuine faith that saves everyone by believing rather in the water baptism of Jesus, His death on the Cross by shedding blood and in the Spirit that is in Jesus Christ who came through the borrowed body of Mary in the flesh of man. In this way, the book begins by referring to every human being as a seed of sin born as a sinner with sins in his or her heart and is destined to go to hell even if he/she doesn't commit a single act of sin. Like this, it defines what sin is and the purpose of the Law. Furthermore, the book considers humans to be a brood of sinners because fundamentally speaking we are born with sin inherently in our hearts, as a result, they are these sins from within, out of our hearts that defile us and those around us. The book concludes with a reminder that with Jesus as our Messiah, meaning 'the true Savior' not even one of us should be deceived by the Devil again over our weaknesses committed once saved (John 13). Urging us through God's word with the original gospel of the water and the blood to discover therefore how we were saved with the atonement of our sins, which is the payment of the wages of sins through Jesus' baptism (the laying on of hands) and His blood on the Cross.
GERARLD EGBE, CAMEROONGERARLD EGBE, CAMEROON
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