{"id":354,"date":"2015-04-12T00:03:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=354"},"modified":"2015-04-26T04:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T04:44:31","slug":"did-you-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know? #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>&#8220;He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.&#8221; John 3:18<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The only sin that can send anyone to hell is unbelief. \u00a0All other sins can be forgiven. \u00a0God has made provision for forgiveness of our sin through the substitutionary death, burial, and resurrection of\u00a0His Son\u00a0Jesus Christ. \u00a0The only sin that will keep one from accessing that provision of salvation and forgiveness in Christ alone is the sin of unbelief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is an infant capable of committing the sin of unbelief? \u00a0<\/strong><strong>If not, then what is the purpose for baptizing infants? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No one goes to hell for Adam&#8217;s sin. \u00a0The only sin that can keep one from accessing God&#8217;s grace for salvation and forgiveness is the sin of unbelief (John 3:18).<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No parent wants their child to be unforgiven and separated from God. \u00a0Most parents would gladly paint themselves with purple polka dots if their spiritual leaders said it was necessary to keep the child out of hell. \u00a0The problem is that the Bible gives no precedent or instruction for purple polka dots or infant baptism. \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Parents expect their spiritual leaders to give them good instruction, rightly dividing the word of truth. \u00a0The Bible is the foundation for all we know concerning Christianity. \u00a0Without the Scriptures there would be no basis for Christianity. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Church tradition that violates biblical truth is\u00a0heresy and is a violation of a sacred trust between the people, their spiritual leaders and God. \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Holy Spirit is the author of Scripture and He never contradicts Himself. \u00a0He is God and He cannot lie. \u00a0Christians are supposed to be people of the Book. \u00a0That is why Christians need to read the Bible and study it for themselves, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. \u00a0<em>&#8220;Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.&#8221;<\/em> I John 4:1<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.&#8221; John 3:18 The only sin that can send anyone to hell is unbelief. \u00a0All other sins can be forgiven. \u00a0God has made provision for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did You Know? #2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}