Brother Porter countered in the following manner: No, I know it did not. If it had, it would have been silly. Suppose that some of you teachers who have a class in school, would give your class this statement tomorrow, "He that eats food and digests it shall have health." You require the class to bring the negative of that on the following day. The next day Johnnie comes back with this: "He that eats food and digests it shall have health; but he that eats not and does not digest it shall starve " I wonder what kind of grade little Johnnie would get on that? ... Why that's silly - the very idea of digesting food that you haven't eaten.

Let me tell you, my friends, the man who has not believed can no more be scripturally baptized than a man can digest food that he has not eaten. It takes both eating the food and digesting the food to bring health, but eating no food alone will bring starvation, and you do not have to say, "And does not digest it. "

It takes both belief and baptism to bring the salvation; but unbelief alone will bring the damnation; and you do not have to say, "And is not baptized." It takes both belief and baptism to bring salvation, but belief alone will bring condemnation. (Porter-Tingley Debate; Dehoff Publications, Murfreesboro, TN; 1947, p. 269). Porter devastated the error of Mr. Tingley by using a simple parallel.

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We send our sincerest congratulations to Greg and Julie Littleton on the birth of Anna Elizabeth (7lb, 11oz), this past Wednesday (March 10). At last word, baby, mama, daddy, and the grandparents were doing fine.

Tonight

The elders would like to meet with the congregation for a brief time after the evening services tonight. All members plan to stay for just a few minutes.

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