I read the statement of faith for this ministry (shown in part) and have highlighted the unbiblical statement below:
Christ For All Nations uses the following to express its Statement of Faith:
The only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST.
Re generation by the HOLY SPIRIT is essential for personal salvation.
Why is this a problem?
Here's an excerpt from an essay I wrote:
Once, when some Israelites tried to share Moses' position as mediator, Moses suggested that they burn incense before the Lord and see what his response was. The ground opened up and swallowed the rebels alive into the earth. A short time thereafter when many in the general population protested this action by God, another fourteen thousand were consumed with a plague. They would all have died had not Moses, as God's exclusive mediator, "stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed". Please read Numbers Ch. 16. A careful reading will reveal that Korah, Dathan and Abiram were not so much opposed to Moses and Aaron as they were opposed to the exclusivity of Moses and Aaron.
And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them - Num. 16:3
Although these prominent men had already been given responsibility in the house of God, they sought more than they were given. They "reasoned" that Moses needed some help as mediator between them and Jehovah God. Apparently they wanted some kind of democracy in this position. They clearly went against what God had purposed and received a swift and violent response from the Lord. Why? It is because they were sinners. When they sought to share with (and thus remove) God's exclusive mediator, God granted their request. Hence, there was nothing standing in between them as guilty sinners and the wrath of God demanded by his justice. In other words, without Moses as exclusive mediator, the Law Covenant with it provisions to circumvent the death penalty were off the table so to speak. They were left to face God alone with only his justice. This was very foolish. But so what? How does this effect us today?
Referring specifically to this issue regarding the exclusivity of God's Mediator, God issues this strong warning for our day:
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. - 1 Cor. 10: 10,11
The Old Testament example shows how deadly serious God is about whom he chooses to mediate and commute death sentences, which Moses did several times on behalf of the people. Never forget: All deserve to immediately die because of their sins. The offer of a Mediator is a kindness from the Lord, not a right. Just as the exclusivity of Moses as Mediator foreshadowed the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as Mediator, God's intolerance for modifying the Mediatorship of Moses proves his intolerance for those that would modify Jesus' Mediatorship. Jesus' exclusive position as Mediator cannot be modified in any way without at the same time removing the provision for commutation of death sentence. This applies to those who try and modify it and their supporters, just as it did in the wilderness long ago with Moses.
Believing that Salvation is through the blood of Jesus AND anything else cancels the contract offered by God in the New Covenant (Testament).
