Ephesians 4:5
5 One [heis] Lord, [kurios] one [heis] faith, [pistis] one [mia] baptism, [baptisma]KJV-Interlinear
5 one
Lord, one faith, one baptism, NASB
In the previous verse,
one Spirit was defined. In this verse,
one Lord is defined. And in the next
verse one Father will be defined.
These statements alone
eliminate all other religions and distinguish Christianity as unique and
completely separate from them all. And especially
Islam which did not exist back in that day, but even today makes the claim of
authoring the Bible. See the study on
Islam in the Special Study Library online.
One Lord, is a reference
to Jesus Christ. He is the same Lord that
walked in the Garden with Adam. He is
the same Lord that created the universe and all life. Jesus Christ is God and man in the same
person. The unique person in all of
existence. As God He has always
existed. As man, Jesus was born into this
world to his mother Mary, but that does not make Him any less of deity, but
makes Him unique. All other gods or god
want-to-be’s are false.
One faith, is a reference
to the method of salvation. Faith is a
non-meritorious belief, and Christianity promotes faith in Christ as the one
and only method of salvation. There are
no works involved, no effort of man by which he may be saved, no contribution by
man whatsoever in the work of salvation.
There is no other method and no other source of salvation. Christ alone went to the Cross, not humanity
in general. Christ alone paid the price,
not humanity in general.
Where most if not all
religions and beliefs and philosophies look to mans effort or discovery for
achievement of some higher existence, Christianity is the one and only faith,
that is totally controlled, run and maintained by faith.
One baptism, is the
reference to the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Other baptisms teach this principle by using water baptism, fire
baptism, sprinkling baptism and so forth.
But the actual purpose of Baptism is to establish a real consecration, a
sanctification, a hallowing, a setting apart of the individual from the rest of
the world, and water is symbolic only and cannot accomplish that. Anyone can take a swim or a shower with or
without water, but only the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, who actually enters
into each and every believer at the moment of salvation, actually achieves this
independence of the individual from the world.
While many other
religions claim separation, they are merely the same as everything else, with
only the smoke and mirrors of lies that support them, which means that they accomplish
nothing.
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