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The Basic Tenets of Christianity



The Basic Tenets of Christianity

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God is perfect.
God created human beings.
God gave human beings free will.
Human beings chose to sin; to give into their sinful desires.
God despises sin.
The wages of sin is death. God cannot have sin in his presence. It is abhorrent to him. Therefore, the consequence of our sin is eternity in Hell. God is also a just God and, therefore, must punish sin.
God loves us as our Father. God loves us more than we can comprehend. God also, like a father, punishes our sin in order to change our behavior. God knows that sinning results in bad things happening to us and wants to spare us from those things by teaching us not to sin.
God wants us to be with him and not be separated from him.
God created a way for our sins to be removed from us.
God became man in the form of his Son, Jesus, to take the punishment for our sins. Only the sacrifice of perfection can wipe away our imperfection.
God wants us to confess our sins, acknowledge our need for his forgiveness, and accept the salvation (the payment) that Jesus made for our sins. When we have put our faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins, we are to ask God to help us turn away from our sins, to change the desires of our heart, so that we can live the kind of life that God commands us to live. This cannot be done through our own strength but only through the strength of God’s Holy Spirit.
Because God loves all people, we are to help others discover God’s gift of salvation through Jesus.
When we realize that we are law-breakers and will be judged, by God, on the basis of his Law (The Ten Commandments); we understand how much God loved us when he sent his only son, Jesus, to take our punishment for us. We deserve an eternity in Hell for the sins we’ve committed and yet God made a way for us to be saved; and for our family and friends to be saved.
When we understand the gravity of this, the other things in life: our careers, money, possessions, stresses, grudges; all seem insignificant. These things are simply scenery and background noise. These are the things that the Devil uses to tempt us to reject God’s mercy.
Once we have stopped resisting God’s gift of salvation, we are to share the knowledge of this gift with others so that they can make the right choice as well. Part of how we do this is by behaving the way God wants us to; to be his ambassadors to those who have not yet been saved.
When people understand that they have broken God’s Law and are in desperate need of salvation; when they see how God has changed our hearts and our behavior, they will want to find out more about how and why God has done these things. When we explain to them that Jesus paid the price for our law breaking and that we behave this way, not to earn our way to heaven, but because God has changed the desires of our hearts and rescued us from Hell; they will want to find out what they need in order to avoid Hell also.
Conversely, if we claim to be Christians but behave sinfully, then we will be hypocrites and drive people away from God. We will also put our faith at risk by continuing to love our sin more than we love God.
  1. God is perfect.
  2. God created human beings.
  3. God gave human beings free will.
  4. Human beings chose to sin; to give into their sinful desires.
  5. God despises sin.
  6. The wages of sin is death. God cannot have sin in his presence. It is abhorrent to him. Therefore, the consequence of our sin is eternity in Hell. God is also a just God and, therefore, must punish sin.
  7. God created a way for our sins to be removed from us.
  8. God became a man in the form of His Son, Jesus Christ, to take the punishment for our sins by dying on a cross. Only the sacrifice of perfection can wipe away our imperfection. God showed that He accepted Jesus’ sacrifice by bringing Him back to life three days later.
  9. God wants us to humble ourselves, confess our sins, acknowledge our need for His forgiveness, and ask Him to save us through the payment that Jesus made for our sins. If we are sincerely humble and want God to save us and change us, He will. He will forgive us. He will grant us repentance (turn us away from our sinful desires). He will give us eternal life, starting from the moment He saves us and continuing for all eternity. After this life is over, we’ll spend forever in Heaven with Him.

    He will also give us a down-payment on our inheritance in Heaven, His Holy Spirit. That’s right, God’s Spirit will live inside of us. We will know we are saved, not because of a momentary emotional experience, but because we have God’s Spirit living in us every moment; and God’s Spirit changes who we are.

    Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
    — 2 Corinthians 5:17

    We will no longer live by the flesh, desiring the things of the flesh. We will want to serve God and do His will. We will not make excuses for our sins, defend our sins, or try to see what we can get away with. We will not chase after sin. We will not dive into sin.

    If, on occasion, we fall into sin because of the impulse of our sinful nature, we will immediately confess our sins to God and ask Him to forgive us and help us to not sin against Him again, because we will desire to obey Him. We will not put ourselves in tempting situation, we will not look at or listen to sinful things, we will not spend our time with people who willfully sin against God and encourage us to do the same.

    We will read His Word, The Bible, every day, so that we’ll know more about Him and know what He expects of His saved children. We will read His Word so that the world will not fool us with its lies. The world tells us that all sorts of things are acceptable, but these things usually conflict with what God wants us to do. We have to be reminded of the truth every day in order to counter the lies the world throws at us every day.

    We will pray and thank God for all He’s done for us and all He’s given us. We will ask Him for the strength to resist temptation so that we do not sin against Him.

    Our greatest desire will be to serve, submit to, and obey God, because He’s God, and because He saved us through His Son, Jesus, and because He’s changed us so completely that these are the deepest desires of our heart.

  10. Because God loves all people, we are to help others discover God’s gift of salvation through Jesus.

God offers us amnesty, through Jesus Christ, from the just
punishment for our crimes against Him. We just need to stop
fighting God. Just give up.

This is not something that our pride likes to hear. But our pride
and the sins we cherish so much are not worth an eternity of
punishment. We can tell ourselves that God doesn’t exist or
that He wouldn’t punish us; but if we’re honest, these are just
things we tell ourselves to quiet our conscience so we can
enjoy our sins.

No sin in this world is worth an eternity in Hell. Surrender to
God and let Him save you!