Christian Beliefs

• nature of God

  • we believe in 1 God (nicene creed)
  • God is a spirit (bible)
• God as omnipotent

  • nothing is impossible with God (bible)
• God as omnibenevolent

  • God so loved the world that he sacrificed his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish (bible)
  • we love because God first loved us (bible)
• God as just

  • for God is judge himself (bible)
• creation

  • in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (bible)
  • in the beginning was the word ... and the word was God (bible)
• the incarnation

  • she was found to be pregnant with the holy spirit (bible)
  • the word became flesh (bible)
  • a sign ... the virgin shall conceive and bear a son (bible)
• God as the son

  • the son of the living good (bible)
  • this is my son whom i dearly love (bible)
• the messiah

  • Jesus the messiah (bible)
  • you are the messiah, the son of the living good (bible)
• the crucifixion

  • father into your hand i commit my spirit (bible)
  • he himself bore our sins in his body on the cross (bible)
• resurrection

  • if christ hadnt been raised then our preaching is useless and so is your faith (first letter of corinthians)
  • in Adam all die so in christ all will be made alive (bible)
• ascension

  • he left them and was taken up into heaven (bible)
  • jesus ... will come back in the same way you have seen him go up into heaven (bible)
• afterlife

  • he will come to judge the living and the dead (the apostles creed)
  • we look for the resurrection of the dead (the nicene creed)
  • no one comes to the father except through me (bible)
• heaven

  • great is your reward in heaven (bible)
  • today you will be with me in paradise (bible)
• hell

  • destroy both body and soul in hell (bible)
  • depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels (bible)
• sin

  • who can forgive sins but God alone (bible)
  • to Adam he said 'cursed is the ground because of you' (bible)
• salvation

  • faith by itself ,if it is not accompanied by action, is dead (bible)
  • for it is by grace you have been saved (bible)
• atonement

  • he is the atoning sacrifice ... for the sins of the whole world (bible)
  • in him we have redemption through his blood (bible)