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4 WHAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVE

 



The Christian message has nothing to do with human ideas about God or with spirituality. In short, this is what the Bible tells us:

  • God is God. He has no beginning but is eternal.

  • God is the Creator of everything that exists.

  • God made man—not the other way around.

  • God has made it known to every person that He exists.

  • God has revealed Himself as a Trinity in the Bible

  • Everything we need to know about God, the reason for our lives and eternity has been recorded in the Bible. 

  • Apart from Him, no other gods exist. God has nothing to do with human ideas about Him.

  • God created humanity in His own image and gave people the responsibility to live for Him and with Him.

  • Man refused this and chose his own way.

  • Man replaced God with man-made religions, idols, and self-made philosophical systems. In modern society, human beings have placed themselves in the position of God.

  • The consequences are catastrophic—too many to list here. We see them daily on the news and in our own lives.

  • Man cannot save himself from Gods judgement by any good work, religious activities or good intentions.

  • God is just and must therefore judge and ultimately punish everything He considers wrong. The Bible even says He has appointed a specific day for this. That date is only known to Him.

  • In His love, however, God has provided one single way of escape from that coming righteous judgment.

  • His Son Jesus came voluntarily into this world and paid for our personal guilt by dying on the cross.

  • God wants people to come to understanding by admitting that they are guilty and can never make up for their personal guilt before God on their own.

  • God wants people to place their full trust in the fact that Jesus has paid the penalty in their place.

  • After three days, Jesus literally rose from the grave.

  • Whoever acknowledges their guilt and relies solely on the fact that Jesus paid for it with His death is acquitted from the coming judgment.

A Christian, therefore, is not someone who tries to live as well as possible in order to eventually be accepted by God—that is religion. A person cannot save themselves through good works, religion, baptism, or anything else. They must be saved.

A Christian is someone who no longer fears the future, because he is saved from the coming judgment, since Jesus bore that judgment in his place.

From the moment of conscious conversion, a person becomes a child of God. From then on, they desire nothing more than to do good out of gratitude for their salvation, to the honor of their Creator and Savior.

  • A Christian is someone who is completely forgiven.
    A Christian is someone who may now call God their Father.
    A Christian is someone who is completely certain that they will be with God in heaven.

The Bible tells us what the future will bring: Jesus will return, as He promised. He will come to take His children to be with Him forever. Those who have rejected Him will themselves be rejected.

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