Why are we Christians? We are Christians because of Christ. We have recognized in His human nature the perfect embodiment of God, which was expressed through His actions, reported by His closest friends while He was among us. In the maturity of His character there was manifested the dignity of human personhood, which has the potentiality in each of us. His character, expressed in His actions, also reveals who He is as a God. The highest revelation of God through the history of the communication between Him and us, was when He revealed Himself in the human flesh. It is the culmination of God's revelation, where He tries to tell us one important thing, namely about His exceeding love for the dignity of our human nature, created in His image.
The trustworthiness of the testimony of Christ's resurrection
The foundation of Christian faith lies in the historicity of the two most important events in the history of mankind: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Christian faith is based upon the historical claim that Jesus bodily resurrected from death after being dead for three days.
In this article, we will provide good reasons for the belief in the historic authenticity of Christ's resurrection.
In this section we are going to look at just some of the practices of the early church believers for approximately the first 250 years of the church. In 313, Constantine issued the Edict of Milan legalizing the practice of Christianity. We have many today that refer to the church fathers as being from this time forward but really the church fathers were the 11 Disciples and Paul, with many co-laborers, not for instance St. Augustine, St. Athanasius, or Gregory of Nazianzen, let alone theologians such as Luther or Calvin.
By the time of the Apostle John's death the world had been completely evangelized with the Church fully established upon the teachings and commandments of Christ and the Apostles. The practices of this original group lasted for several generations until the church began to blur the distinctions between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world under this new governmental favor.
The Sufficient and Final Authority of the Scriptures
We believe that the Holy Scriptures, also known as the Bible, represent a body of writings written by prophets and apostles inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Scriptures represent God's revelation of His will unto mankind: through the Scriptures we learn to know God and teachings of His Moral Law. We believe that the Holy Bible is the only infallible and final authority for the Church. In other words, we believe in the principle of Sola Scriptura: the Holy Bible is the only infallible source of God's revelation for the post-apostolic Church. We will show that the principle of Sola Scriptura is implicitly taught in the Bible, i.e. it can be inferred from certain biblical observations. Also, we will try to provide answers to typical objections against it, objections usually given by the Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.
The offering of spiritual service to God in the celebration of His Holy Person is one of the highest, noblest employments in which man can engage, the supreme reach of the soul. (...) The worship of a Supreme Being seems to be a universal instinct, and because of the sovereignty, majesty, and holiness of God, must be surrounded by such safeguards, restrictions, and sanctities as will preserve the divine honor and secure the acceptance of the worshiper and his worship. (...) Rather than incur the wrath of heaven by a form of worship that is dishonoring and displeasing to God we should, instead of allowing ourselves ignorantly to worship, seek some divine message declaring what the mind of the Lord is, and follow it.
This article is in two parts. The first one, Biblical reasons for the doctrine of hell as eternal torment, will examine all relevant biblical texts about hell and show that the Bible teaches that lost sinners, who died in their unrepentant sins, will be punished with everlasting torment. The second part, Apologetic defense of the doctrine of hell as eternal torment, is more philosophical in approach and endeavors to explain how eternal torment of lost souls is metaphysically possible in the universe of a benevolent God. (Christian apologetics deals with scientific and philosophical arguments for Christian beliefs).
Written by Aleksandar Katanovic | 
