Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith

by David J. Stewart | November 2009

Here are some of the major teachings of Biblical Christianity:

Note: All of the following Scriptures are quoted from the King James Bible.

THE GODHEAD

Numerous false religions deny the Biblical doctrine of the Godhead; including the Jehovah's Witness, Mormons, Christian Scientists, Scientology, Freemasonry and Judaism. Despite modern corruption to the Word of God by removing all mention of the “Godhead,” the trustworthy King James Bible makes 3 references to the Godhead (Acts 17:29; Romans 1:20; Colossians 2:9). Critics of the Godhead doctrine claim that the word “Trinity” is not found in the Bible. For that matter, neither is the word “Bible” in the Bible. What they fail to mention is that the word “Godhead” is found in the Bible, i.e., if you have the Holy Bible which hasn't been corrupted by Satan. I recommend only the King James Bible.

There were Bible-corrupters way back in the Old Testament, just as there are still today, “...ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God” (Jeremiah 23:36). The doctrine of the Godhead did not originate in pagan religion as some heretics claim. It was the unsaved world who imitated the Godhead. Long before the first false religion formed God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...” (Genesis 1:26). And so it was.

The Bible teaches that there is one God (Deuteronomy 6:4); but the Bible also teaches that God has manifest (or revealed) Himself to mankind as a Godhead, i.e., God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. This doctrine is clearly seen in many Scriptures; such as Matthew 28:19, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” And again in Colossians 2:9 we read, “For in him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” The Godhead became incarnate and walked this earth in the fleshly body of the Lord Jesus Christ (1st Timothy 3:16). Anyone who denies the doctrine of the Godhead is NOT saved.

To clarify, when I was saved at age 13 I had never heard of these doctrines. However, as time went on and I had the privilege of attending Bible College, then I did learn these fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith, and I gladly received them. The Holy Spirit indwelling me (Romans 8:9), beared witness with my soul that these were the truth!
 

THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST

The Bible proclaims that Jesus Christ is Almighty God (John 1:1-3,14; John 10:33; Colossians 2:9; 1st Timothy 3:16; Revelation 1:8). The Jehovah's Witness' false religion claim that Jesus is “a god,” but not “THE GOD” (that is, God Almighty). In Revelation 1:8, Jesus claimed to be The Almighty... “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” The new corrupt Bible have changed this to “Mighty One,” which is very different from “The Almighty!” Lucifer is corrupting the Bibles, which is why the name and doctrine of “Lucifer” have also been removed from Isaiah 14:12 in all the corrupted modern Bible versions. Gotta Love that trustworthy King James Bible!

Despite the hordes of religious churchgoers who praise the “reverend” Martin Luther King Jr., he openly denied the Godhead, the Virgin Birth, bodily resurrection and the Deity of Jesus Christ in his writings. King was NO Christian! Anyone who questions or denies that Jesus Christ is Almighty God is not a Christian. Tragically, there are many professed “Christians” nowadays who deny the Deity of Jesus Christ. They are imposters, unsaved heretics, who are properly called “Modernists.”
 

THE SINFULNESS OF MANKIND

The Bible tells us in 1st John 1:8, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” The Bible proclaims in Romans 3:10-23 that all men are sinners. There's only one human being, born of a Virgin, Who never sinned, and that was the Lord Jesus Christ (2nd Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15). Apart from Christ, all mankind has sinned. Don't judge others because they sin differently than you do! We are all GUILTY of violating God's holy Law, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.”

Oh listen my friend, you and I are so wicked that if it weren't for God's loving hand of mercy, the ground would immediately open beneath our feet and swallow us into hellfire forever, where we deserve to be punished for our sins. Anyone who claims to have shortcomings and faults; but denies their sinfulness and guilt before God, is NOT saved. The very work of repentance requires an admittance of one's guilt before God for violating His holy Law.

I am the biggest sinner I know, and so are you if you're saved and walking close to the Lord God. The closer that a person draws near to God, the worse of a sinner you're going to feel like, because of God's consuming holy presence (Hebrews 10:29). Thank God for the precious blood of Jesus that washes our sins away and sprinkles our conscience concerning past sins (Hebrews 10:19). Satan always convicts people of past sins, but the Holy Spirit only convicts the believer of present, or past unconfessed, sins. Although some men manage to live above reproach, no man can live above sin. We are all horrible sinners in the sight of our holy God. No one is going to escape God's judgment. We much all give account before the throne of God in eternity (Hebrews 4:13). 1st Timothy 5:24, “Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.”
 

THE LITERAL BLOOD SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST

One of the saddest commentaries of American churches today is that thousands of pastors look up to Dr. John MacArthur for mentoring. MacArthur teaches the same hellish false doctrine as R.B. Thieme Jr. that Jesus' literal blood has no saving power; but rather, that the blood is only significant in that it represents Christ's death on the cross. MacArthur and Thieme teach that Jesus' physical blood soaked into the ground and Calvary and stayed there. This is NOT what the Word of God teaches. Hebrews 9:12 states, “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but BY HIS OWN BLOOD he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” Jesus took His shed blood with Him to appear before the Father in Heaven, just as the Old Testament highpriest did once a year, applying the lamb's blood upon the mercyseat in the Holy of Holies. The Blood Had to Be Applied.

There is NO doctrine any more dear to the heart of God, nor more critically important, than the efficacy (saving power) of the literal, physical, precious blood of Jesus Christ... “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” The Bible doesn't say we were redeemed by the death of Jesus (although the death of Jesus is certainly a fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith); the Bible says we were redeemed by the PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST. It is utter heresy for any preacher to question or deny the saving, redeeming power of Jesus' physical blood. John MacArthur is an unsaved Modernist.

From Abel's blood sacrifice in Genesis to the saints washed in the blood of the Lamb in Revelation, the Bible proclaims the importance of the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Please read, The Importance of the Blood.
 

THE SUBSTITUTIONARY (VICARIOUS) DEATH OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS

Literally, Jesus died in our place, paying a debt that He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay. That debt was our burden of sin. Jesus took our load of sin and bore the weight of them upon the cross of Calvary's hill. Amen. If Jesus hadn't taken my place on the cross, then I would have had to go to Hell for all eternity without rest nor end, to pay the price for my own sinful disobedience against God's Holy Word. Thank God for Calvary!

By the way, all of the satanic modern corrupted Bible versions completely remove the word “Calvary,” so precious old hymns like “At Calvary” have no meaning for today's youth, which is likely why hardly anyone sings the song anymore. I love the song, “At Calvary.”

And may I say, beware of the new Cross-less Gospel which is creeping into our churches. There's much nonsense heard on religious radio these days about asking listeners to: “trust Jesus” or “start a relationship with Jesus” or “commit your life to Jesus” or “pray the sinner's prayer”; however, none of these things are THE GOSPEL. According to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4 the Gospel (good news) is that Christ died for our sins on the cross, He was buried, and then He raised up from the dead three days later. The Gospel MUST include the cross upon which Christ was crucified for our sins. Any plan of salvation that leaves off the cross is a Cross-less Gospel which cannot save.
 

THE VIRGIN BIRTH

Anyone who denies or questions whether Jesus was born without an earthly father is unsaved. Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:23 proclaims that a virgin would bring forth the Christ child. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit performed a divine miracle, which caused Mary to give birth to God's Son. Contrary to the teachings of the sex-perverted Mormon religion, God did NOT have any physical relations with Mary.

The Biblical doctrine of the Virgin Birth is significant, because if Jesus had a human father, then He would have inherited man's sin-nature and couldn't have been the perfect Lamb of God to take away our sins. Jesus had the flesh of mankind, through the line of Mary; but He did NOT have an earthly father. Jesus is the Son of God (John 3:16), making Him God Himself. The Bible tells us in Acts 20:28 that God has purchased the church by His own blood, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” Amen!

The Virgin Birth is a critical Biblical doctrine, which every believer confirms. Martin Luther King Jr. openly denied Jesus' Virgin Birth, which clearly evidences that King was not a born-again believer. A born-again Christian WILL believe in Christ's Virgin Birth. The wicked Talmud of vile Judaism blasphemes God, by teaching that a Roman soldier brutally raped Mary to conceive Jesus, thus denying the Virgin Birth. Hell will be hot for the writers of such blasphemous filth as the Jewish Talmud!
 

THE SINLESS LIFE OF CHRIST

The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ never sinned, not even once (2nd Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15). Jesus never said, did or thought something sinful. Jesus was the perfect Lamb of God (1st Peter 1:18-19). “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17).

Only an unsaved God-hater would dare portray Jesus Christ as a sinner; such as The DaVinci Code book and movie, which claim that Jesus Christ had a secret affair with Mary Magdalene and fathered children by her. It is utter wickedness and blasphemy against God. Movies such as Jesus Christ Superstar and The Last Temptation of Christ are blasphemous and attack the character of the Lord Jesus Christ and His deity. Anyone who questions or denies the sinlessness of Jesus Christ is not saved.

Jesus never sinned, not even once, not even in thought. He was the perfect and sinless Lamb of God, without spot nor blemish (1st Peter 1:18-19).
 

THE EXISTENCE OF A LITERAL HELL WITH FIRE

Only an unrepentant sinner, who has never realized one's guilt of sin and much deserved penalty of Hell, would deny the existence of such a place. We hear much talk nowadays from apostate ecumenical groups about God's love; but they ignore God's holiness that demands justice. The Bible speaks of God's love over 100 times; but of God's holiness over 700 times. God is indeed a loving God; but He is also a holy God. God's holiness demands punishment against sin, which is why He sent His only begotten Son into the world to pay for our sins, so that we could be redeemed from the curse of the Law and have eternal life.

We all deserve to be punished in Hell for our sins (Romans 6:23). It is popular nowadays for people to admit they have faults and shortcomings; but then deny that they have sinned in any way. Sin is a Biblical term, and the unbelieving world doesn't recognize the term. Look at any dictionary of modern psychology and you WON'T find the term “sin,” because the unsaved heathen world doesn't view themselves as being guilty or sinful. This is why modern psychology is inherently flawed, and messed up, because they attempt to diagnose why people do the horrible things they do without taking into consideration the fact of sin. The world is in the mess it is because of man's greed, hate and love for sin.

Many people today think this temporal earth is hell. They foolishly deny the existence of a Biblical Hell where Christ-rejecters who die in their sins will suffer for eternity (2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9). Whether you believe the Bible is God's Word or not is irrelevant to the reality of Hell. You will go to Hell if you die in your sins. Wouldn't you rather die in the Lord and go to Heaven, “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” You can either die in your sins and go to Hell, or you can die in the Lord and go to Heaven—the choice is solely yours to make.
 

THE DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST

The Bible defines the Gospel in basic terms of the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). The religion of Islam denies all 3 of these Biblical doctrines. Islam falsely teaches that Jesus was kidnapped and someone else died in His place. Islam falsely teaches that God has no Son. Thus, Islam and Biblical Christianity are diametrically opposed to each other.

Interestingly, numerous false religions do hold to these basic tenets of the Christian faith, which causes much confusion and misleads many people to join their false cults. The Biblical Gospel also EXCLUDES all forms of self-righteousness. This is where Roman Catholics go amuck, by mandating that their church members keep the Seven Sacraments in order to be saved. That is unbiblical. A person cannot be saved by self-righteousness, which is commonly termed “Works Salvation.”

Howbeit, we know of a certainty that anyone who denies the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not a born-again believer.
 

THE BODILY RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST

The Bible teaches that Jesus rose BODILY from the grave and was physically seen by over 500 witnesses (1st Corinthians 15:6). Acts 1:9,11 tell us, “And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight . . . Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” Jehovah's Witnesses falsely teach that Jesus only rose in spirit. This is unbiblical. The Bible teaches that Jesus rose physically, and Thomas even touched His wounds (John 20:27).

This is a fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith, for if Jesus did not rise bodily, then the Scriptures are lying and we have no hope. Unlike Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad and other religious icons, Jesus Christ is still alive. If you were to look into the graves of every religious leader throughout history, you'll find their corpse; but Jesus' tomb is empty praise God!!! The Bible says that Jesus is coming again, and He will return BODILY at the Second Coming (Acts 1:11).

“The only way a Christian can have the true and the real joy is by winning other people to Jesus Christ. That is the only way!” —Pastor Max D. Younce, a quote from the awesome sermon titled, “WHAT DOES IT MEANS TO ABIDE IN CHRIST?”

“There's not a single person in this house this morning, who's unsaved, but what wouldn't be saved if you realized that the Creator of the universe loves you!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, a precious quote from the awesome sermon titled, "How To Love God More.”

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John 8:32,36, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free
... If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

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