THE 14 Essential Doctrines.
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1: GODS Unity.
1: GODS Unity.
There is only 1 God, he has alwsys existed and will always exist.
There is one and only one God, the creator of the universe.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Other scriptures for this Doctrine.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord,
And my servant whom I have chosen:
That ye may know and believe me,
And understand that I am he:
Before me there was no God formed,
Neither shall there be after me.
I, even I, am the Lord;
And beside me there is no saviour.
2:GODS Tri-unity
2:GODS Tri-unity
The trinity sums up the nature of God (atleast as much as our 1.5KG brains can comprehend)
While there is only 1 true God, he exists eternally in three distinct persons/essences.
The Father is called God (2 Thessalonians 1:2)
The Son is called God (John 1:1-5, John 10:30-33,John 20:28, Hebrews 1:8,Philippians 2:9-11)
The Holy spirit is called God (Acts 5:3-4, 2 Corinthians 3:17)
God is one substance, One God, Whilst been 3 Persons in perfect harmony and relationship.
More then 60 bible verses have the 3 listed together.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
3: Human Depravity
3: Human Depravity
Since God is a personal Being, He want a personal relationship with us Humans. Human depravity means that every single human is spiritually seperated from God, totallly incapable of saving him/herself.
When adam sinned he died spiritually and his relationship with God was Severed. Additionally all of Adams descendants are “dead in trespass”
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Without a new birth (becoming a new creature in christ) No one can enter into eternal life
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
The best verse to sum up human depravity is in Romans.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4:Christ’s Virgin Birth
4:Christ’s Virgin Birth
Jesus was born as a result of a miracle. Mary became pregnant without ever having sexaul relations. The doctrine of Jesus’s virgin birth is not about mary or her miraculous conception. The reason it is essential is has to do with God’s supernatural intervention. Our sin is not meerly somthing we do, it is WHO WE ARE. It is inborn.
It also fufilled an old testament prophecy
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
And shall call his name Immanuel.
Our depravity is transmitted to us from our parents
Psalm 51:5,
1 Corinthians 15:22
Romans 5:12-15
Because God interrupted the natural birth process in the case of His Son Jesus, Jesus did not inherit a sin nature. In other words, Jesus did not only did no sin, he had no inclination to sin even when tempted. HE WAS PERFECT.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
5: Christ’s sinlessness
5: Christ’s sinlessness
Jesus Christ was born of a virgin and he did not suffer the effects of a sin nature. throughout his wordly life Jesus remained Sinless.
Because of our sin we could not have a relationship with God.
But because Jesus did not sin he was perfectly able to represent us and stand in our place as a sacrifice to bear our sins and bridge the gap between man and God.
(to stand in our place before God, so that God the father may see Christ in us, rather then our sins that seperate us, from God. Thus jesus represents us and provides salvation for us)
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
6:Christs Deity.
6:Christs Deity.
The only way for humans to be restored spiritually to God was for God to build a bridge across the gap of seperation. So God, While retaining his full God nature, became a perfect man in Jesus Christ in order to bridge the Chasm of Seperation.
If he is not both God and man, he cannot mediate between God and man.
1 Timothy 2:5 Jesus Christ been to second person/essence in the trinity.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Scriptures for Christs Deity.
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
7:Christ’s Humanity
7:Christ’s Humanity
Jesus was fully human while been fully God Simultaneously.
He got hungry, Tired and Thirsty.
Without been fully human he could not have paid the price for our sin.
He needed to be Divine to have the power to save us and he needed to be human in order to represent us.
Christ had to be both divine and human.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
8:Necesssity of God’s Grace.
8:Necesssity of God’s Grace.
Because of human depravity, we cannot save ourselves.
It is by God’s grace and his Grace alone that salvation is possible.
God is more then 100% right to call humankind to account for there sin.
However by his grace, underserving people will be united in fellowship with him and avoid his rightous judgment.
Without his Glorious Grace, no one could come into relationship with God
Relationship with God is peace, Joy and eternal life itself
John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
9:Necessity of Faith
9:Necessity of Faith
Faith is trusting that God can and will save us.
No one can earn salvation.
no amount of good deeds or works can ever repay the debt of our sin that is owed rightly to God.
However by trusting in him and thankfully and genuinely accepting his
gift of salavation, we can be united with God.
Faith is an act on our part, but it is not a work. Faith is trusting God to do what we could not do for ourselves.
Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
10: Christ’s atoning Death
10: Christ’s atoning Death
The penalty for sin is death.
not only physical death (the seperation of the soul from the body)
but also spiritual death (seperation of ourselves from God)
The penalty we owe God was paid by Jesus Christ through his shedding of blood and death of the cross.
The acceptable payment had to be complete and perfect and without fault.
Jesus Christ the perfect man, gave himself in our place, so that whoever believes in him will not die physically and spiritually but have everlasting life John3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
11:Christ’s bodily resurrection
11:Christ’s bodily resurrection
The atoning death of Jesus Christ paid for our sins.
but the process was not complete untill he had deafted death by being physically resurrected in the same body John 2:19-21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body.
Because of Christ is the victor over death and the prototype of a new Glorified Physical body, all of humanity will be resurrected and live forever in either Heaven or Hell.
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
12:Christ’s bodily ascension
12:Christ’s bodily ascension
Jesus Christ died for our sins and was physically resurrected for our salvation.
40 days later, he was taken up (ascended) bodily into heaven.
Because Jesus Christ ascended to the Father, the Holy Spirit now Guides us, shows us where we are wrong and comforts us when we hurt.
Jesus going to the Father means our life is kept safe in heaven with God.
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
13: Christ’s intercession
13: Christ’s intercession
Jesus Christ’s bodily ascension allowed him to serve as our mediator (or high priest) before God.
In God’s presence, Christ prays continually on our behalf.
Just like a lawyer defends someone before a judge, so Jesus Defends us before the bar of God’s law and against accusations of satan. (Revelation 12:10)
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
14:Christ’s Second coming
14:Christ’s Second coming
Just as Jesus Christ left the world phsically, so he will return
in the same manner.
His second coming is the hope of the world.
When he returns, Dead believers will receive their resurrected bodies.
Belivers that are alive when he returns will not die, but will be transformed into immortal physical bodies.
Jesus Christ’s bodily return to earth will be visible to all and Belivers will rule with him in his kingdom and will live forever with him.
Those who do not Believe will be seperated from God’s Goodness forever.
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
