Basic Christian Doctrine
- There is only one God - Isaiah
43:10; 44:6,8;
John
17:3; 1 Cor. 8:5-6; Gal.
4:8-9
- God is a Trinity - 2 Cor. 13:14;
1 Pet. 1:2
- There are no Gods before or after God -
Isaiah
43:10
- God knows all things - 1
John 3:20
- God is all powerful - Psalm
115:3
- God is everywhere - Jer.
23:23,24
- God is sovereign - Zech.
9:14; 1 Tim.
6:15-16
- God is spirit - John 4:24
- God created all that exists -
Gen. 1:1; Isaiah 44:24
- Spirit does not have a body of flesh and bones -
Luke
24:39
- God has always been God -
Psalm
90:2
- Jesus is God - John
1:1,14; 10:30-33;
20:28; Col.
2:9; Phil. 2:5-8; Heb.
1:8
- Jesus became a man - Phil. 2:5-8
- Jesus has two natures: divine and human -
Col.
2:9; 1 Tim. 2:5
- Jesus was sinless - 1 Pet. 2:22
- Jesus is the only way to God the Father -
John 14:6; Matt.
11:27; Luke 10:22
- The Holy Spirit is God -
Acts 5:3-4
- The Holy Spirit is not a force. He is alive -
Acts 13:2
- The Bible is inspired by God -
2
Tim. 3:16
- All people have sinned -
Rom.
3:23, 5:12
- Man did not evolve, he was created -
Gen.
1:26
- Adam and Eve were real people -
Gen. 3:20;
5:1; 1 Tim. 2:13
- Death entered the world because of Adam's sin -
Rom. 5:12-15
- Sin separates us from God -
Isaiah 59:2
- Jesus died for all our sins -
1
John 2:2; 2 Cor. 5:14;
1
Pet. 2:24
- Jesus' sacrifice was a substitution, for us -
1
Pet. 2:24
- Jesus rose from the dead in His physical body -
John 2:19-21
- Those who reject Jesus will go to Hell -
Rev. 20:11-15
- Hell is a place of fiery punishment -
Matt.
25:41; Rev. 19:20
- Hell is eternal - Matt. 25:46
- The unsaved go to hell forever -
Rev.
21:8
- Salvation is a free gift of God -
Rom. 4:5; 6:23;
Eph.
2:8-9
- The Bible is the Word of God -
2
Tim. 3:16
- Jesus will return visibly to earth -
Acts 1:11
- Christians will be raised from the dead when Jesus returns -
1 Thess. 4:14-17
- There will be a rapture (being caught up into the clouds with Jesus) -
1 Thess.
4:14-17
- There will be a final judgment -
2 Pet. 3:7
- The damned will be thrown into a lake of fire -
Rev.
20:15
- Satan will be cast into the lake of fire -
Rev.
20:10
- There will be a new heavens and a new earth -
2
Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21:1
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