This list is in no way intended to THE entire embodiment of the Truths of God. Its more a condensed version. I started this list for my own purposes to distill what I believe out from all of the background noise.
Having committed it to paper, so to speak, I decided to go ahead and post it. Please feel free to share your thoughts.
What I believe to be Unchangeable truths
God created all that there is.
God exists as One in the three persons on the Trinity; The Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit
That it is by Gods will and his will alone all that there is exists.
God created man (and women) beings in his own image; as such God gave man free will
God gave the earth and everything in and on it to man and gave man **stewardship over it **(8/20/11 revision was dominion)
Through the exercising of man’s free will, man brought sin into the world.
Because of man’s sin man became subject to the power of sin, (Satan) . Thus subjecting all creation, all that man had **Stewardship over, to Satan’s control.
Through sin the world and all of mankind became subject to evil, Satan. (subject = slaves)
God, because he is all knowing and exists in all time, knew from the beginning (before creation) that this would happen and planned a way to free the world and mankind.
God himself, The Son, became flesh in the form of Jesus Christ and was born of a Virgin.
Because of the Virgin birth Jesus, equally the Son of Man, Son of God and God, was born free of the bondage of sin that had controlled mankind from Adam until then.
Jesus, “The Christ” (Christ is the Greek word for Hebrew word Messiah ) was 100% man and 100% God.
Jesus, the man lived a sinless life. However, he was tempted in all ways like all of mankind.
Jesus, the Son of God, the Son of Man, God incarnate, offered himself up through crucifixion to pay for all of the sins of mankind.
Because of God’s sacrifice of himself in the Son through crucifixion the barrier between man and God was removed. ** God could always approach man but man, because of sin and guilt could not come to God.
Jesus was raised bodily from the dead through the power of God to conquer the power of death and to redeem the world.
The sacrifice of God, Jesus freed the world from the control of evil. Giving the power and Lordship over the earth back to man through the resurrected man Jesus the Christ.
All men are now called by the Holy Spirit, the 3rd person of God, to be reunited to God as Adam was once united.
Access to God is now available to all mankind through the resurrected Jesus Christ.
All mankind are invited to become sons of God, as Adam, through the cleansing of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
To be reunited with God this is what we must do:
Accept that we, on our own, are lost sinners and unworthy to approach God.
Accept Gods own sacrifice, the crucifixion, as payment for our own sins and short comings.
Admit or confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and accept his Lordship over our individual lives.
While at CFNI, Christ for the Nations Institute, www.cfni.org/ I was privileged to hear a lesson that we should learn to separate “Eternal” Truths” from “ temporal truths” The cliff notes version is that some doctrines of faith will pass away with this world and thus are temporal. While other doctrines of faith will last through all eternity.
Examples are:
Jesus is Lord = Eternal Truth He will always be Lord
The laying on of hands= temporal truth in the world to come there will be no need for the laying on of hands because we will be resurrected like Christ in un-corruptible bodies.
All of the above “statements” are supported by scripture. I’ll be back soon to post an updated version with scriptural notations to back them up.
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Amen. Sounds about right Bill.
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