Faith Statement

This is only a vague outline of what I believe and will be slowly refined and expounded upon as time goes on.

DEVINE REVELATION
1. scripture is infallible.
2. scripture is inspired by God.
3. The canon of Scripture is closed and well defined by the Baptist Confession of 1689.
4. Scripture is inerrant.

THEOLOGY PROPER
1. God is omniscient, He knows the future because He has decided it and He sees all time in His present.
2. Omnipresent, God’s spiritual presence surrounds everything physical so that He can see everything but He is not everything.
3. Omnipotent, there is no limit to God’s potential ability.
4. Sovereign, God determines the life, growth, and death of every single unit of the infinitely small units of matter in our universe as well as the metaphysical realm.
5. Immutable, All matter undergoes constant change but God does not. He is the unmoved mover and the uncaused cause. His nature and attributes and spiritual makeup never change. And yet He does influence our every moment.
6. Monotheism, God is eternally singular in His nature.
7. Trinity, God is eternally three personalities which consist of The Holy Spirit, The Word, and The Father.

CHRISTOLOGY
1. Christ is the One God’s second personality, The Word, incarnate.
2. Wholly man and wholly God. Having human nature and divine nature.
3. Christ is the Heir to the throne of His human ancestor David. He eternally has the only right to the physical throne of Jerusalem.
4. Christ is the High Priest of the kingdom of God’s priests, His elect. His work of mediation as High Priest was finished when He presented Himself as lamb sacrifice for the sins of His elect once and for all on the cross.

MISSIOLOGY
1. Open Air preaching was done by Jesus and His disciples and followers.
2. Person to Person witnessing is a New Testament practice.
3. The highest goal in evangelism is to express truthfully and accurately all that is in Scripture in order to magnify God, that the hearer is able to see Him more clearly than nature has revealed Him. So evangelism is more a practice of worship than it is an attempt to convince the hearer.
4. The main goal of every christian should be the glorifying of God to his neighbors in walking distance of his home. Those who receive Christ in word are then to be discipled by the believer who did the work of evangelism. The evangelist/shepherd will then begin to see his surroundings as a christian community and spend every day, as time permits, with those who claim Jesus is their lord. They will together learn to not only confess Christ as Lord but act as His bondservants, encouraging one another and discipling new believers in their area as the circle continues.

ECCLESIOLOGY
1. Baptism: Faith baptism by immersion represents most importantly the second birth and secondarily the washing of sin. The Old Testament sign of being part of the family of God was the sign of circumcision and the New Testament sign of being born again replaces that and the sign representing being born again is baptism. But be careful baptism is not the NT sign of entering the family of God being born again is. So you would call me a Baptist at this point.

2. Communion: Doesn’t exist. Jesus told the disciples to think of the Passover as it relates to Christ being the bread and wine.
Explanation – > Eucharist and Communion Vs. Passover Meal

3. individual worship is seeking to live a holy sinless life pleasing to God
4. corporate worship is in verbal praise with other believers and in serving other believers and walking in close relationship with believers in your neighborhood and caring for their spiritual and temporal needs by teaching them scripture and encouraging and leading them in joyous service of our King.

SOTERIOLOGY
1. Five Solas
2. TULIP/doctrines of Grace

ESCHATOLOGY
Not had enough time to study this subject thoroughly.
As of now I believe in the intermediate state and lean towards a future pretribulation rapture, and a literal millennial kingdom which is established by Christ alone and yet to come.

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