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| Duerer's Adoration of the Trinity |
As requested by a reader - The essentials of the Christian Faith -
The Scriptures are viewed as the direct, unified, and harmonious Word of God, excluding the Roman Catholic Apocrypha. Inerrant and infallible are good descriptive words, but having a quia subscription is meaningless in sects promoting modernist Bibles and their eclectic, snip-and-clip Hebrew and Greek texts.
The term Sacred Scriptures means the Holy Spirit always works with the Word and never apart from the Word, as taught especially in Isaiah 55.
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the Persons of the Trinity, and yet the Trinity is one.
The singular task of the Bible is to teach faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and therefore to teach Justification by Faith apart from the works of the Law.
The Son of God has existed from the beginning, proceeding from the Father, born of the Virgin Mary, having Two Natures in Him, human and divine. He gathered disciples, taught and performed miracles, faced His torture and death, rose bodily from the dead, and ascended to Heaven.
Because the Sacraments are the Visible Word of God, Holy Baptism and Holy Communion are Means or Instruments of Grace, just as preaching and teaching the Gospel are.
Worship, receiving Holy Communion, and study of the Scriptures are basic to the Christian life.
Prayer is the fruit of faith receiving the Promises of God. The Spirit moves us and helps us to pray in the name of Jesus Christ. The Father loves those who love the Son.
Faithfulness to the Gospel of the Savior means bearing His cross, which reminds us of His cross and sanctifies our lives.
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| "No cross, no crown" is a saying in Europe. |
