UNDER CONSTRUCTION: 5/25/2012
The Gospel, the Good News
As testified through the Prophets in the Scriptures (Psalm 22; Isaiah 50:4-9; Isaiah 53:1-12; Zechariah 12:10-14; Zecharaiah 13:7-9; Acts 3:18, 22-24; Acts 10:43; Romans 1:2; 1 Peter 1:10-12), because of his name’s sake (Ezekiel 36:22, 23, 36; Psalm 106:8; 1 John 2:12) and his good pleasure (Ephesians 1:5), God saves his children, whom he has specifically and individually (John 10:14-16) chosen from both Jew and Gentile (Isaiah 56:3-8; Ephesians 2:11-22; 1 John 2:2) before time began (Ephesians 1:4) and who by grace (Romans 3:24; Ephesians 2:8) both have their sins atoned for (Isaiah 53:4, 10-12; 1 Peter 2:24), thereby appeasing the just wrath of God (Romans 3:25; 1 John 2:2), and have the righteousness of Christ imputed to them (2 Corinthians 5:21) through faith (Romans 3:20-22; Ephesians 2:8, 9) in the perfect (i.e. sinless) life (Isaiah 53:9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 1:18, 19; 1 Peter 2:22; Hebrews 7:26; Hebrews 9:14), actual death (Acts 10:39; 1 Corinthians 5:7; Colossians 2:11-15; 1 Peter 1:18, 19, Hebrews 9:14), and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (Acts 10:40; Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:4, 12-19; Colossians 2:11-15) for the remission of their sins (John 1:29; Acts 10:43; Romans 1:3, 4).
This the Father did so that the children of God, known collectively as the Church or the Bride of Christ or Israel, would perform good works (James 1:22-27; James 2:14-26; 1 John 3:16-18), which God has prepared in advance for them to do (Ephesians 2:10), in general is to declare the praises of God (1 Peter 2:9), and more specifically is to love the Lord their God with all of their heart and soul and mind and body (Deuteronomy 6:5; Luke 10:27; Matthew 22:37, 38), to love their neighbor as themselves (Luke 10:27; Matthew 22:39), and to live an increasingly holy and blameless life (Romans 1:5; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:11, 12) being sanctified by the Holy Spirit, who is a seal (Ephesians 1:13, 14; Ephesians 4:30) and an indicator of one’s salvation (Romans 8:14-16).
The Nature of God; Theology
The Nature of Christ; Christology
The Nature of the Spirit; Pneumatology
Creation
God, sovereignly and solely, created the heavens and the earth and all therein, including time and space; in short, He created the cosmos, the very system under which all created things must abide. He did not use any preexisting materials, for nothing existed before Him.
