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
God predestines for salvation those who have been chosen by Him. God’s sovereignty. False free will, the existence of the two seeds. In the Bible, the elected ones are called the “100 sheep” or as many as the sand on the beach, wheat, receptacles of honor, unique property of God. The certitude of salvation, the guarantee of salvation.

I.3 REDEMPTION INITIATED IN CHRIST´S INCARNATION, CONFIRMATION OF THIS DEATH AND THE CROWINING OF THE RESSURECTION.

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
Spiritual Authority
Firmness during confession
Illuminated Eyes .
Living reality according to the resuscitated Christ “ - “we do not know a person just by being physically close to them” The awareness of being seated in celestial places with Jesus Christ. The Pauline principles as a basis for a spiritual life.

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.
Its hierarchy.
Its action and the actual ministry in favor of those who have been saved.

I.10 THE CHURCH

A visible sign of salvation.
Christ’s mystical body.
A sign of Christ.
A sign of Unity, a different outlook on the man one who was reborn from the Holy Ghost by way of the prophetic message and the seal of the Holy Ghost.
Evangelism based on the new pact, with its superior and better promises.
An Evangelical Church of Christ without scratches or stains – the bride of Jesus Christ

I.11 PAUL´s FOURTEEN EPISTLES AS A FILTER TO THE BIBLE.

Because of the knowledge that Paul had of the Old Testament.
Because of his doctrine based on coherence.
Because of the revelation of the Grace of God that he received from the mouth of the just.
Because of the unity that they establish among themselves.
Because of the specific message of the Grace of God to the gentiles.

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.
The tithe is before the existence of the law
The tithe is a sacred means to an end

I.13 THE CONFESSION OF A CHRISTIAN AS A LESSON OF HIS HONORABLE MISSION

He believes in what he says: confession from the mouth .
Confession as a source of life and not of death.

I.14 THE BOOKS AND THE BOOK OF LIFE

Those whose names are written in the bible are saved
Their names will never be erased
The books about the gratifications and rewards; the book of the living

I.15 THE LORD´S SUPPER

Created before the law in the period between Melquisedeque and Abraham.
Revealed to Paul the Apostle by Christ after the Resurrection
The only physical sign of the New Pact

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 of the Son as a human being, as well as in His resurrection.
In the gift of faith in order to be saved by his Grace. In an enlivening, renewing and sanctifying spirit that moves and is epitomized in the life of the Church sanctioning his followers for redemption.
In the Predestination and in the Election of the just. In the gift and irrevocable calling.
In the Prosperity of the believers
In the manifestation of Christ revealed in the lives of his followers and in the stories of his People
In living a just life because of faith
In the communion with the spirit of the just ordered to be saints.
In only one faith, one baptism, one God.
In the resurrection of Christians and in eternal life.
In a victorious life here on Earth.
In Christ’s definitive second coming in order to complete History, just like Omega, by gathering the chosen and predestined ones, the Jews and Gentiles convened in one congregation around Him, their only Shepherd: the revelation of the resurrected Christ that is whole in all of us.

APOSTOLIC MISSION OF THE GRACE OF GOD (DIVINE)
FOUNDER – APOSTLE MIGUEL ÂNGELO – PRIMATE BISHOP


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