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An apostle had to have been an eye built, said:
witness of Christ (Acts 1:21-22 and 1 For John truly baptized with wa-
Corinthians 15:8-9), so there can be ter; but ye shall be baptized with
no apostolic succession. The apostles the Holy Ghost not many days
were used in the foundation of the hence.
church (Ephesians 2:20) and the foun- That baptism with the Holy Ghost
dation must not be re-laid. Jesus was NOT something that was adminis-
wisely gave the authority to His tered by the Holy Ghost. It was an act
church to be passed on to those chur- that was performed or administered by
ches He would later build by succes- Jesus. It was an immersion in the Holy
sion from that first one. Ghost, as the baptism administered by
John was an immersion in water. The
baptism with the Holy Ghost was not
Man-made churches have administered to people as individuals. It
no authority to, and cannot, was administered to a church, corpora-
administer a baptism that is tely. It was not something that was pro-
acceptable unto God. mised to begin occurring on a regular
basis "not many days hence." It was
To reject scriptural baptism is to re- promised to occur, to be administered,
ject the counsel of God (Luke 7:2930). "not many days hence." It is not so-
mething that was, or is, administered to
No man can please God while rejecting an individual at conversion, and does
His counsel. Valid baptism is required NOT place one into any kind of univer-
for entrance into one of the Lord’s sal invisible church. There is no such
churches. In Luke 11:23, Jesus said, thing. 1 Corinthians 12:13 is sometimes
"He that is not with me is against me: thought to teach the contrary, but it is
and he that gathereth not with me scat- speaking of water baptism received by
tereth." the leading of the Holy Spirit. The ver-
As was seen earlier, it was said that Je- se teaches that by the leading of the
sus would baptize with the Holy Ghost. Holy Spirit we, both Jews and Gentiles,
are baptized with water into one body, a
In John 1:33, John said: local visible church such as the one at
And I knew him not: but he that
sent me to baptize with water, the Corinth. The verses that follow, in 1
Corinthians 12:14-27, speak of "the
same said unto me, Upon whom foot," "the hand," "the ear," "the eye,"
thou shalt see the Spirit descen- "the head," "the feet," and "the body."
ding, and remaining on him, the Those verses are obviously referring to
same is he which baptizeth with a physical, human body as an illustra-
the Holy Ghost. tion of a church. If verses 14-27 are

In Mark 1:8, John said: interpreted consistently with verse 13,
and "one body" in verse 13 is defined as
I indeed have baptized you with a universal invisible body, verses 14-27
water: but he shall baptize you are rendered totally meaningless. The
with the Holy Ghost.
In Acts 1:5, it is recorded that Jesus, terms, "one body," and "the body" do
speaking to the church He had not imply a universal invisible body
any more than "the eye" or "the foot"
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