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I. THE THESES THAT HE HAS DEFENDED Apostle Miguel Ângelo da Silva Ferreira has made an effort, by way of the defense and predication of his theses, to promote a pro-reform of Protestantism. He believes that the Protestant Reform, which was initiated by Martin Luther, did not really take place. He believes that along the years it has absorbed doctrinal, theological and pastoral principles which have stagnated the institutionalized church and put the weight of rites, duties, absolutions, prohibitions, pastoral principles other obligations of the Christian-Jewish faith on its shoulders. As someone who propagates the Grace of God based on the Holy Bible- in particular the fourteen epistles by Paul the Apostle, he proposes a deliverance from the judgment of the law and a life guided by knowledge and by the revelation of the Word of God, confirmed by the existence of the Holy Spirit in the Church, a visible sign of the Creator among human beings. I.1 THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF THE SPRIT; THE CHOSEN AND THE ELECTED ONES These were angelical beings covered with flesh created to carry out God’s plan. The chosen ones know where they come from and that they posses the incorruptible seed of God . There is no universality in the election; consequently, there is no universality in salvation. Salvation is only for those who have been chosen; those that are saved are saved eternally. Election, preference, liberation and salvation can be seen in the proven by the Grace of God and not in the workings of humankind. I .2 DIVINE PROVIDENCE AND GOD´S PURPOSE A pact was sealed with the blood of Christ. The price of salvation, deliverance from the power of the Devil. The Christian is rescued from the empire of evil and brought into the kingdom of God. I.4 THE DOGMA OF THE ORIGINAL SIN ACCORDING TO PAUL´S THEOLOGY: Sin and its consequences: “mankind’s total incapacity”, “no one who seeks nor understands it”. “A non-believer is dead in transgressions and sins”. I.5 THE SECOND GRACE OF GOD IS THE VICTORIOUS LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN, WHICH IS A RESULT OF KNOWING THAT HIS OR HER SPIRITUAL CONDITION WAS BESTOWED BY GOD. Spiritual Growth I.6 CHRIST´S DEITY Historical Christ vs. Resuscitated Christ. Christ died to save the chosen ones, the elected ones, the chosen and the predestined ones. I.7 THE CLOSING OF THE DIVINE TRUTH In the word of God, in the revelation which is not only a privilege of teachers of religion, as tradition says, but of all of God’s children. In communion, in the priest’s ministry and in that which is prophetic and real in every Christian. . I.8 BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST AS A MEANS TO CONFESSION AND A DECLARATION OF FAITH, WHETHER THE PERSON IS RELIGIOUS OR NOT . A single God, a single faith, a single baptism. Salvation is bestowed in the admission of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that is, in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Nobody can say that Jesus is the Lord unless it is through the Holy Ghost. I.9 THE MINISTRY OF THE ANGELS Its existence. I.10 THE CHURCH A visible sign of salvation. I.11 PAUL´s FOURTEEN EPISTLES AS A FILTER TO THE BIBLE. Because of the knowledge that Paul had of the Old Testament. I.12 THE TITHE: PRESENT IN THE OLD AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. Abraham was the first person to pay a tithe spontaneously to Melquisedeque, the king Salem, before the law was introduced. The tithe belongs to the Lord. To pay the tithe is an attitude of acknowledgement and gratitude towards God. It is a gesture of detachment of material goods before God. It is a seeding of the flowerbeds of Jesus Christ’s work. It is a way to fight off poverty and misery which are calamities that offend and humiliate humankind. The tithe is honored by God. I.13 THE CONFESSION OF A CHRISTIAN AS A LESSON OF HIS HONORABLE MISSION He believes in what he says: confession from the mouth . I.14 THE BOOKS AND THE BOOK OF LIFE Those whose names are written in the bible are saved I.15 THE LORD´S SUPPER Created before the law in the period between Melquisedeque and Abraham. II. PROFESSED CREED In only Sovereign God, the Creator and Patron of all creation. Author and conductor of History, of the Cosmos and of Salvation. The Lord Jesus, who personified the Trinity: as the Father in creation, as the Son in redemption and as the Holy Ghost during these times. In one God who was saved and redeemed through his death, in the incarnation
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APOSTOLIC MISSION OF THE GRACE OF GOD (DIVINE) FOUNDER – APOSTLE MIGUEL ÂNGELO – PRIMATE BISHOP |
Coordination Lucio Leonardo |
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