The wisdom of our baptism calls for deeply searching out the true teachings of Jesus, and a sincere willingness to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit into all truth. We have been called to it. We hold to the promise that if we believe in Jesus and hold faithfully to his teachings, the truth we come to know will set us free. If we have to set aside teachings of major Christian traditions, such as those of the Catholic Church or the early Protestant reformers, as God gives us the courage, we do so and we prefer instead the genuine teachings of Jesus. This includes the clear teaching of Jesus through his servant John, that the Book of Revelation comes from a revelation given to Jesus by One superior to him, God. This teaching is found in the very first verses of the Book of Revelation. To do this, with courage given by God, we must deprecate the contradicting teachings prevailing throughout traditional and Protestant Christianity. This God who gave the revelations in the book of Jesus, is clearly the Father. Jesus and John, in Revelation 1, call the Father alone ‘God’. This teaching is what our baptism requires us to follow.
