Letter to my wonderful english teacher part six

This is a particularly difficult part to write and probably where most would say "this is too much".

I'll do the best I can. 

I've tried to think of how to say this. I thought of a number of analogies and I tried to think of comparable circumstances in Christs day.  Ill try to utilize all that I can, in the best way that I can. 

So imagine that John baptized a number of wonderful devout people who traveled a long ways to hear to receive baptism from the hand of this prophet. These people then traveled to the coast and set up a remove fishing village away from Jerusalem. There they went about their lives, awaiting the Messiah, like John-- awaiting Jesus Christ. They were the best of people. Full of all goodness and truth and love. They prayed and read from their scriptures with complete devotion, serving their fellow man both and night and avoided all sin. They baptized their young and felt of the Holy Spirit as they talked about their Savior and Redeemer to come. Generations passed as they lived isolated on the coast.

Jesus came and left. They didnt know of it. He appointed 12 apostles that they did not know of. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote their testimonies of Christ, that they never read. Paul wrote many letters that they never heard of. The apostles organized the saints into churches. One day, missionaries sent by Peter stumble across this incredible devout people who had been taught by John. This missionary declares to them that Jesus had visited and that He had organized His church, by appointing apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists and ordaining to the priesthood authority, just as Moses had ordained Aaron.

They listen with some healthy skepticism, but an open mind and heart none the less. Naturally, the doctrines taught by John the baptist are the same as those taught by Christ and the apostles in regards to salvation and Heaven and hell and such. And these people, like John, believed in the Messiah before they had identified Him in the flesh-- receiving salvation from their sins and walking in obedience to the commandments of God. Of course, the apostles have shared more of them-- but at their core, they are the same.

They are invited to join the Church body of Saints who gather in nearby Galatia and to hear the teachings and epistles of the apostle Paul as he writes and visits them. 

They ask why they need to join the body of saints and why they need to listen to Pauls epistles. They ask "am I righteous in God's sight simply by the blood of the Messiah, our Lord, whom I have long awaited, or do I need to add something more to be righteous in His eyes like join your church?"

I have already been baptized and I have already felt of the Spirit of God testifying of God-- is this not enough? Why need do I have to be baptized as a member of the church in Galatia and hear the words of these aposltes? Am I not already saved by the blood of the Messiah and declared righteous by Him?

If you were a missionary sent by the Apostle Peter, to baptize these people into the Church and body of Saints in Galatia, what would you say to them? Clearly, they are living the teachings of the Messiah as they received them from John the baptist and clearly they are spreading the good word and serving God in their community.

These are righteous people--- VERY righteous and spiritual. More so than most of the saints you left behind in Galatia when you traveled to their small village as a missionary. Why should they want the records of Matthew and of Mark and of Luke and of John? Why should they want the epistles of Paul? Why should they have any interest to receive spiritual direction under the hand of the living apostles?

Here is a proclamation from the living apostles of Jesus Christ:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/the-restoration-of-the-fulness-of-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ/a-bicentennial-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng

I have more to write, but I will leave it there for the night.