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Emergency Flights Correct
Doctrine Coordinating
Doctrines Continuing
Doctrines “The Lord¹ our God is one [Lord]: “…we know… “For
unto us a child is born, “I and my Father are one.” “He that hath seen me “For thy maker is thine
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The Core Doctrines of God We can also call these the Core
Doctrines of Truth or the Core
Doctrines of Knowing God or the Core Doctrines
of Biblical Christianity or the Core Doctrines of having a Correct
Understanding of the God of his
Bible and of the Bible of God. Regardless of these Truths’ label, a humble, unbiased, and
correct understanding of these four Doctrines
is necessary for our eternal destiny. God himself put
these four Core Doctrines in his Bible. They are about
God and how he interacts with
the people he
created. And
God’s preeminent expression of his
holiness and love is in his son, Jesus, who is the Christ of God, and Lord. The first two of the four doctrines we have identified as “Core
Doctrines” of Truth are simultaneously mutually
independent and yet interrelated. God is (exists), regardless whether we
humans ever find out about him. Yet, thankfully, God revealed himself to us! We could not know God without his revelation, and his Bible reveals God to us, including
his nature and his sole provision for our salvation
(the other two Core Doctrines of Biblical Christianity). God’s written
revelation to us is exclusively found in the Old
and New Testaments of the Bible. God
intentionally did not use any other book, writing,
or claim; nor did he
use any tradition of man or church to communicate to us in writing. “God…hath in these last days spoken unto us
by his Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the worlds; who is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person” – Hebrews 1:1-3. And, “he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder
of them that diligently seek him.”
The Four Core Doctrines of Christianity 1. God is (He truly does exist); he alone is God; and God
is unambiguously one as the trinity of Father, Son, Spirit. 2. God has revealed himself to us, the people
he created, primarily in the Old and New Testaments of his Bible. 3. God is utterly holy, every one of us humans is a
sinner, and our sin must
be punished. 4. Only through Jesus, the Messiah, can sins be forgiven, and our salvation can only be accomplished his way. 1. God indeed is Real, and He is God It is so obvious from his creation itself that God exists,
that he declares in Psalm 14:1 and 53:1 that only
“The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” Why? “Because that which may be
known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of
the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and godhead; so that they are without
excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart
was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools.” – Romans 1:19-22. Jesus, who is Lord and Messiah, is God. Integral to this first Core Doctrine is that Jesus is God. The Scriptures make his triune deity unmistakably clear. We must understand that … i. Jesus is Lord,
specifically the Lord (Jehovah) God ii. Jesus is the foretold Christ,
the Messiah, the Saviour, the anointed and rightful
King of all his creation, and iii. Jesus “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third
day according to the scriptures.” Jesus Christ claimed deity in fulfillment of the Scripture: “The
Spirit of the Lord [God] is upon me, because he hath anointed me
to preach the gospel to the
poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised, To
preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” And
he closed
the book, and he gave it
again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of
all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And
he began
to say unto them, “This day is this scripture
fulfilled in your ears.” – Luke 4:18-19 (which
quotes Isaiah 61:1-2) & Luke 4:20-21. “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth.” – John 4:24. 2. Only the Holy Bible is the
Complete Written Message from God 3. Sinners in the Hands of a Holy God “There is none righteous, no, not one.”
“There is none that doeth good, no, not one.” “For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God.” – Romans 3:10,12,23. Although we are sinners, and thus cannot fulfill the Law of God
ourselves, and are therefore rightly under the death sentence, the good news
is that Jesus has fulfilled the Law and paid our penalty for us. “And he is the propitiation for
our sins.” – First John 2:2. Only that prophesied “holy one
of Israel” could be the spotless “Passover Lamb” to be our substitute in
death and everlasting punishment. 4. Salvation Can
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¹ The English version of the Jewish Scriptures (published by the
Jewish Publication Society) has all of Dt.6:4 prominently capitalized. This is the first core doctrine, that the Lord * alone is God and that this God is one. * “Lord” or “God” when in all capitals is
“YHWH” in Hebrew, pronounced “Yahweh”, or “Jehovah”
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² a The fact that there
is only one true God eliminates all counterfeit false religions such as
Hinduism, Anamism, and false cults like the
(so-called) Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons. b The fact that this one true God is “the Lord”* (that
Yahweh is the only Lord) eliminates all counterfeit false
religions such as Taoism, Buddhism, and false cults started by some
individual. c That Yahweh is who and what his
Bible says he is and how he acts eliminates all counterfeit
false religions such as Islam, Romanism (Catholicism & Orthodoxy), and
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“But when the Comforter is come, Jesus declared, “the scripture “Thus saith the Lord,
“The
next day John seeth Jesus |