Friday, 21 November 2008
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God
Gen. 1:1, 26-27; Ex. 3:13-15; 20:1-7; 34:6-7; Dt. 6:4; Job 38:1-11  ; Ps. 24:1; Isa. 6:3 ; Mt. 6:9; 28:19;
Jn. 4:24 ; Acts 17:24-28 ; I Pet. 1:2; Rev. 4:8 ,11.
There is one God, the creator, preserver, and governor of all things. This God is spirit. His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth are infinite, eternal, and unchangeable.
God exists eternally in three persons as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who are of one substance, sharing the same attributes and glory, worthy of the same worship, confidence, and obedience.
The Bible
Ex. 20:1; Deut. 18:18 ; Jer. 30:1-2 ; Ex. 31:18; 34:27; Ps. 119; Mt. 4:4; Jn. 10:35 ; 14:26; 15:26; Rom. 3:12; I Cor. 2:13; I Thess. 2:13; II Tim. 3:16-17; II Pet. 1:20-21.
The Bible was uniquely inspired of God through the agency of the Holy Spirit, who superintended those who originally wrote our Bible in such a way that they wrote down God's very word so that it is completely trustworthy, without error and authoritative in all it teaches.
The Bible perfectly reveals the nature, works and purposes of God. The Holy Scriptures contain a divine revelation of God's will as regards to our salvation and Christian life. It is the divine and only authority, completely sufficient for all Christian life and faith.
The Human Race
Gen. 1:26-27; 2:7, 16-17; 3:1-19; 6:5; Ps. 8:3-6; 14:2-3; 51:5; 53:2-3; Is. 54:6; Mt. 15:19; Rom. 2:14-15 ; 3:9-18, 23; 5:12, 18, 19; 6:23; I Cor. 10:31: Rev. 21:8 .
Human beings, including unborn children, were created in the image and likeness of God. They therefore have a value and dignity that mere humanism could never give them. We were created to glorify God and enjoy him forever and to be stewards over God’s world. But Adam fell from his high position and sinlessness. This estranged him -- and all humanity that followed him -- from the Holy God. Without God’s grace in Christ the human race is, therefore, in a state of sin and misery, under God’s righteous wrath, guilty, alienated from God and justly condemned to eternal separation from God in hell. We are unable to save ourselves, live holy lives or relate well to one another in human society.
The Lord Jesus Christ
Ps. 2:6-7; Is. 52:13-53:12; Mt. 1:18-25; 11:27; Mk. 14:61-62; 10:45; Lk. 1:31-33; 2:10-11; Jn. 1:1-3 , 14; 3:16; 5:22-23; 8:58; 10:30; 14:8-9; 20:30-31; Acts 2:21-35 ; Rom. 1:3-4 ; 5:8; I Cor. 15:3-8; II Cor. 5:18-21; Phil. 2:5-11 ; Col. 1:15-20 ; I Tim. 2:5-6; Heb. 4:15 ; I Pet. 2:21-24; Rev. 22:13 .
The Son of God became incarnate (that is, He took on a human body). He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. In Christ, God united His complete divine nature with a complete human nature (like ours but without sin) in one person. He is fully divine and fully human; both natures, human and divine, were whole, perfect, indivisible, inseparable and yet distinct.
To accomplish our salvation, Jesus lived a sinless life, was a perfect example, and died on a cross, assuming the judgment rightly due sinners, shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins. This is often called the “substitutionary atonement.” On the third day, He rose from the dead in the body which had been laid in the tomb, victorious over Satan. He then ascended to the Father where, in His exalted position, He now intercedes for us.
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