John Thomas' Teachings
Compared with Thomas Williams and JJ Andrew

The Elohim lied: The penalty threatened (violent death that same 24 hour day) was not carried out on Adam. "The supreme lawmaker" and therefore the "perfect law-keeper" did not keep His own laws.

The sentence, an immediate slaying, or violent death, is not enforced, making the serpent right when he said "thou shalt not surely suffer a violent death"

The sentence, or legal condemnation, is different from the physical effects.

The day in which Adam was supposed to, but did not really, suffer the "immediate death by slaying" was 24 hours.

Through a substitutionary sacrifice the sentence that Adam incurred was transferred to an animal and ultimately to Christ.

The embodiment of baptism in animal sacrifice or baptism satisfies the Edenic penalty.

Eternal death is the death of all non-baptized. God will not or cannot raise those who are not associated with the blood of Christ. The condemnation or katakrima placed upon Adam and his posterity makes it absolutely impossible for them to be raised after death (unless God does it by his independent power).

The blood of Christ is the power which raises a man out of the ground to appear before the judgment seat of Christ.

At baptism men pass out of Adam and into Christ. A man can in no way be considered to be federally in Adam after baptism.

Law of sin and death is removed at baptism.

Baptism is a carnal ordinance. Baptism removes legal defilement or filth of the flesh.

Baptism for original sin, or legal defilement, must precede immortality.

Baptism is for: Remission of sins, the putting on of Christ, removal of filth of the flesh, purifying of the flesh, removal of the law of sin and death, to appear at the judgment seat, coming out of Adamc, infliction of the first death, to fulfill the Edenic penalty,

The process of cleansing is legal, then moral, then physical.

"‘Our old man’ is sinful flesh" from which we are justified at baptism.

Outer, or legal cleansing, is more essential than inner cleansing.

Yahweh’s covenant is a mutual agreement. It is only a law to those who choose to accept it as a law unto them.

Blood/Obedience is the basis of resurrectional accountability.

The words Christ spoke to the Jews are only applicable to the Jews.

All men of all ages were justified through The Faith. From Adam through the 2nd Advent men are justified by a belief in a suffering dying savior for the remission of sins.

Christ did not submit to the baptism of remission of sins but to the baptism for the remission of sin.

Christ’s baptism removed Adamic condemnation, original sin, really or typically.

Christ was alienated from God before a shadow "justification" which was not really justification, but a type of the justification which would be available only after his death. Alienation & wrath describe the legal state of the flesh.

God does not want men to serve Him out of fear but out of phileo.