Wash Away Your Sins

Colin Melbourne
© 07-08 Born-Again-Christian.Info

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Satan ensnares millions with the religious lie that water can 'wash away your sins'.

The Holy Bible teaches that there's only one way to wash away your sins, and it is not with water.

Satan's River Ganges Scam

Hindus have elaborate bathing ceremonies using oils and water to 'remove' their guilt and shame.

Satan has seduced them to believe the lie that ritual bathing in the River Ganges at the Ardh Kumbh Mela removes their sin.
See: Death of a Guru

Muslims are often bound by repetitive compulsive Islamic washing rituals in a vain attempt to become clean before God.

The Devil uses pseudo-Christian cults distorting Scripture to falsely claim that baptism in water will remove your sin: It doesn't, it cannot.

Double Deception

Every six years, as many as 70 million Hindus gather at a confluence of rivers in North India to 'wash away their sins'.

Hindu religion teaches that washing in the 'holy' River Ganges, where it joins the Yamuna, and imaginary Saraswati rivers, will make them spiritually clean. They believe it allows them to escape the, otherwise endless, cycle or birth and death in 'reincarnation'.

They are, of course, utterly wrong, and doubly deceived. Washing in the Ganges never takes away sin, and reincarnation is a satanic lie. After death, all sinners face God's Judgment followed by the Second Death: Hell, not rebirth. Heb. 9:27, Rev. 20:14-15.

If you visit the Indian Subcontinent you will develop enormous respect for the sincere efforts of Hindus and 'holy men' to please their 'deities'. Many devote their entire lives in pursuit of righteousness, following elaborate rites and religious routines, thinking they are pleasing the "Ultimate It". (Hindu scriptures depict millions of 'gods' but don't dare name the highest 'god'.)

Unlike people in the West, Indians, by and large, tend to be refreshingly sincere in their faith, making the delusion all the more tragic.

By Grace Alone

The Holy Bible is the Word of God, and tells us that man cannot remove his sin and guilt before God. There is nothing he can do to make himself right in God's sight, all mankind is utterly helpless and condemned. (Is. 64:6, Ro. 3:9-18)

That is why God came Himself and provided redemption for us. He offers salvation freely to every sinner, by grace. (Ro. 3:22-28, Eph. 2:8-9) Grace means it is God's free gift, you can't earn or deserve it. You either accept it from Him, or you reject it, and continue trying to clean yourself by useless religion.

This is terrible news for those who make a living from religion. Priests, Rabbis, Imams, Monks, Gurus, and incense sellers, throw their arms up in disgust at such a simple solution to mankind's greatest problem.

But it is the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ, and causes the hearts of repentant sinners to rejoice. Are you hungry and thirsty for righteousness? God will fill you now.

Sinner! God will make you a righteous saint today, when you simply believe.

Old Symbolised The New

In the Old Testament, God foreshadowed how He was going to remove the sin of the world. He illustrated it in His dealings with the Jews. Moses led them through the Red Sea towards the Promised Land. Joshua took them through the River Jordan into the Holy Land. Naaman the Gentile leper was instructed to wash seven times in the Jordan, and was healed. Jewish priests were given washing rituals to perform before they could approach God. And so on.

But in none of these cases did water ever wash away their sin, it symbolised something else, The Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Caught in a deadly sin, repentant King David appealed to God,

Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Ps. 51:2 Holy Bible NIV verse 7... wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

David knew only God could wash him, not himself, the prophet, or priest; and not the water of ceremonial washing or baptism, but God alone.

The message of the Jewish Law in regard to sacrifice and forgiveness is neatly summarised in Hebrews. 10, for example, having our bodies washed with pure water. v. 22

Meaning, not the ceremonial Jewish washings that symbolised what was to come, but spiritual washing by the Living Word and Spirit of God, in the New Birth.

A Word for the Cults

The Epistle of Titus destroys the false-teaching of cults that water baptism washes away sin. No! We are washed clean the instant we receive Christ as Lord and Saviour, cleansed by God, not by dipping in water. The washing of rebirth, done by God to us, not by us.

Make them read it out aloud,

He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done [like baptism], but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Titus 3:5

Not through water baptism, but beforehand, through washing and rebirth by the Holy Spirit: The New Birth!

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Continued: How to wash your sins away