To: DevNet
==Which definition of Christian are you using today?
The same one I always have:
- The Godhead is triune: one God, three PersonsGod the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
- All mankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by choice) and are therefore subject to Gods wrath and condemnation.
- Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and His complete and bodily Resurrection from the dead.
- The Holy Spirit enables the sinner to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
- The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness.
- Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individuals repentance, recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Saviour, Lord and God.
- All things necessary for our salvation are set down in Scripture.
- Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
- Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to Heaven, is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in like manner to this Earth as Judge of the living and the dead.
- Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and man.
- Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting conscious punishment, but believers enjoy eternal life with God.
To: GodGunsGuts
I don’t see anything in there about not having to disavow evolutionary theory or an old Earth which you have implied many times renders one a “false” Christian.
79 posted on
03/09/2009 7:19:23 PM PDT by
DevNet
(What's past is prologue)
To: GodGunsGuts
I don’t see anything in there about not having to disavow evolutionary theory or an old Earth which you have implied many times renders one a “false” Christian.
80 posted on
03/09/2009 7:19:23 PM PDT by
DevNet
(What's past is prologue)
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