KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

"first faith" to "previous pledge" in I Timothy 5:12 to present the first in the series of occult initiations. Every Greek text says "first faith.") The frontispiece frames the most frightening face you've ever seen—a photograph of author Rudolph Steiner, Satan’s staunchest apologist. His book Esoteric Christianity heralds a chapter entitled "Christian Initiation" insisting: Christianity must bring mankind to an acceptance of some of the ancient principles of initiation .29 The defectors defer to the devil's desires as evidenced by the

following newspaper notice:

The Rite of Christian Initiation (RCIA), a process of bringing new people into the [Catholic] faith, will begin Tuesday September 3 at 7:30p.m. in room seven of the lower church hall.

Apostasy knows no denominational boundaries. Howard M. Ervin, professor at Oral Roberts University, makes remarks in his book, Conversion-Inidation and the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, which sound sinisterly close to Mme. Blavatsky's: LUCIFERIAN "[The] initiatory role of water "After the usual baptism baptism [is].. .Christian Initiation by purification of water.. .. .[A]part from the water rite, the .[the] baptismal font, metaphors have little meaning. . upon entering from .the ceremony is substantively which the neophyte was more than symbolic, it is 'born again' and became sacramental. . .[The] perception an adept. . .In the cycle that Pentecostals and of Initiation which was sacramentalists share a common very long, water world view is correct. The represented the initial baptism in/filling with/gift of the lower steps toward Holy Spirit is therefore purification. . .there is subsequent to conversion and another baptism of the initiation. The NIV captures the Spirit of Holy Light." nuance correctly, 'it [baptism] [The NIV changes 'Spirit' saves you.. .'"30 to 'light' in Eph. 5:9.]31 Ervin Blavatsky APOSTATE CHRISTIANITY