In the 4th century, there was a church elder named Arius from Alexander, Egypt. He challenged the church’s teaching of the deity of Jesus Christ. He insisted that Jesus had a beginning. This led to the gathering of over 350 bishops and church elders in the council of Nicea in 325 AD. He was condemned as a heretic and excommunicated from the church.
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God does not start what He cannot finish. His plan of salvation is a complete package, the deliverance of our souls and bodies from sin and its effects. He has begun this work in our lives and will complete it at the coming of our Lord.
Read more →God is the author of salvation. He planned and produced it through the life and work of His Son as a full and complete package. Nothing can be added or removed from it. No desire or effort of man can earn salvation (Romans 9:16). The ‘First Steps of Salvation’ is not about what we do to produce salvation on our own but the roots of God’s salvific work in our lives.
Read more →The way of salvation is a one-way road with no alternative or shortcuts. Jesus Christ is not one way among many but the only way to God and eternal life. His death is not one of the means of salvation among many but the only means.
Read more →The news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, coming into the world, living, suffering, dying and rising from the dead to save humanity is good news indeed. This is the undeniable fundamental doctrine of the gospel that all Christians hold. It is by it we are saved.
Read more →Many have heard the word ‘salvation’ but are confused about what it means. Some are confused about how to obtain it; they believe they will be saved by doing righteous deeds, being good to people, etc. Others believe their good deeds will be weighed against their bad deeds after death to determine if they will be saved.
Read more →Paul laments to the Romans the conflicting reality of flesh and Spirit in him. Although he had the law of God, it was powerless to save him. He acknowledges that by nature he is sinful and finds it easier to obey his sinful nature even in the face of God’s law.
Read more →Who you choose to obey matters a lot. In our lesson, we see how Adam and Eve choose to obey the devil rather than God. This initial sin plunged the whole human race into a slavery to sin.
Read more →Scripture teaches that humans are created in the image and likeness of God. What does it mean to be in the image of God? Are we made to physically resemble God? Isn’t God Spirit? How does it fit into the creation narrative in Genesis?
Read more →No book has encountered more opposition, criticism, rejection, and extermination attempts as the Bible, yet has at the same time attracted more attention and is more honored than every other book. No book has been sold more, read more, translated into more languages, and has had more impact on the lives of people than the Bible.
Read more →Final authority refers to one who has the final say, the point of reference, and the end of all arguments and confusions. Some believe that their church has the final say on matters concerning God and religion, others believe the head of their church has this authority, while others yet still give that authority to scientific consensus.
Read more →The Bible is the word of God and the bedrock of Christian beliefs. It is the most popular book in history, translated to many many languages and has shown the greatest resilience to efforts to destroy it. Many have also lost their lives for the possession, sale and distribution of the Bible.
Read more →In Scripture, we see the living God reveal His personality and plan for the world. He spoke to men, through men, for man’s sake and it was written down. Of all religions and their books, the Bible stands authoritative as the final word on ultimate reality.
Read more →Fathers are called by God to rule as heads of their homes. When a father is struck down, the house dies. When a father has lost control of his headship in the home, the house suffers.
Read more →The Bible teaches that God created Adam out of the dust of the ground. He put Adam in the Garden of Eden to work it and commanded him not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God then said it was not good for Adam to be alone and that He would make a suitable helper.
Read more →A Christian father is to bring good leadership to his family just like our Lord Jesus leads the church.
Read more →God’s mercy is His goodness demonstrated to those in distress. It is God showing compassion, pity or lovingkindness to those in need. Because of God’s mercy, any sinner can be forgiven and justified irrespective of the weight of sin committed.
Read more →To be gracious means to favor or show kindness to an inferior. Grace is rooted in God’s nature of love. This means he deals with humans not on the basis of their merit or what they deserve but on the basis of His goodness and generosity.
Read more →God is just in all that He does. Being just means acting with fairness, equity, and impartiality toward everyone irrespective of social or economic position. We as humans twist justice and show partiality because of our fallenness but God is perfectly just.
Read more →The sin of Adam, our representative, fell the world into ruin. The world was in a perishing state and powerless to save itself. Although the sin was against God and deserving of HIs wrath, He decided to save the world by providing an everlasting solution to our predicament.
Read more →A very important difference between human beings and other living creatures is the fact that we are persons. A person is one with self-consciousness, feelings, appetites, a sense of freedom, and ability to self-reflect.
Read more →God is ever-present in that he is in attendance throughout HIs creation. Since God is indivisible, all of God is present in creation and yet transcends creation. His existence is not limited in space and time, we call this the omnipresence of God.
Read more →Knowledge is power. The more we know makes us more powerful than the one who knows less than us. Little wonder why the devil, who knows a lot about God, man and Scripture, is able to exercise power in the life of men. We too as God’s children can become more powerful when we know more from Scripture.
Read more →Power is the ability to exercise influence and control over people, things and events. The president of a country or the king of a nation is considered to have the topmost power in that country or nation, but even the president/king has a power above him.
Read more →Throughout history, the origin of all things has fascinated humans both great and small. Many theories have been put forward by many cultures to explain the creation of the world. The most relevant in today’s age is the scientific theory of the Big Bang.
Read more →A uniquely Christian doctrine that has been fiercely defended since the beginning of the Church is the doctrine of the triune nature of God; that within the one being of God exists three co-equal and co-eternally persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Read more →Scripture is clear that there is only one God who is the sole creator and sustainer of all things in existence. God made everything out of nothing and ordered it perfectly according to His will. He sustains all things; everything that exists derives its being from God.
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