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  • Doctrines of the Common Era

    Doctrines of the Common Era

    2025 Common Era christians only

    Are christian pulpits erasing Christ’s line in the shifting sands of Biblical DOCTRINE?

    Is our Church proclaiming JESUS Christ in these last days?

    SATURDAY Series – Biblical Jargon for Common Era Christians

    JAN & FEB 2025 CE

    FOR the first two months of 2025 C.E. we examined true teachings of the Bible to understanding a few COMMON christian terms.

    Take ANY commonly used christian jargon such as: gospel, grace, saved, redeemed, soul, flesh, sanctified, justified, forgiven, hell, heaven, lord, king, priest, prophet.. and MANY MORE..

    2024 C.E.

    Here’s a QUESTION for fellow believers about our terms of teaching, preaching and our personal fruit of the faith:

    Christian Doctrine —What’s the Point?

    WHAT teachings did YOUR ‘christian‘ church preach in 2024 of the Common Era?

    How has DOCTRINE from Scripture evolved in two millennia of Church teaching into a blurred line in the sand erasing Biblical Truth?

    Which doctrines will fit into a Common Era culture that no longer lives in Truth or desires a relational church?

    Is YOUR Gospel simply GOOD NEWS for a COMMON ERA AUDIENCE to APPLAUD?

    IS corporate worship of JESUS Christ as God our Savior, the One Redeemer from SIN INCLUDED in YOUR Common Era evangelism?

    As a Christian follower of the Lord JESUS Christ, Roger invites you to examine our evolving COMMON ERA culture in ‘christian‘ worship and practice.

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    • Does worship by your church resist the temptation to ERASE Christ’s DOCTRINES commanded by Scripture?

    Compare and apply the teaching and preaching of

    • The Life of the Common Era church 
      • to Scripture

    God-willing, we will continue our focus on preaching in 2025 C.E. by defining, applying and comparing the TEACHING of the church with the Word of the BIBLE.

    Find the Way, the Truth and the Life in our Everlasting Savior the Lord Jesus Christ.

    For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. –

     Hebrews 5:12

    2025 CE Doctrine

    SATURDAY POST SERIES – Biblical Jargon

    January & February

    Biblical Jargon for Common Christians

    Category: Doctrines CE

    Comment on Scripture (you who believe).

    MORE looks back at DOCTRINE 

    Although we began this category in 2023 C.E. as an updated look at DOCTRINE, in our travels with the Apostle Paul in ACTS and re-reading some of his LETTERS to the churches I have once again begun ASKING US the QUESTIONS of our Biblical Christian Doctrine and hope to hear your answers about these foundational beliefs. - RH

    Proclaim the scriptural doctrines of the Gospel.

    Followers of Christ must always expect an attack against Scripture. Church doctrine is a line in the sand. - How will a leader or council of leaders choose what the Church will teach?
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    Do you REALLY believe? Is DOCTRINE of the Bible a line in the sand for you? OR has DOCTRINE of the COMMON ERA become a blurred line in the sand of 21st century CE?
    2024 of the COMMON ERA DOCTRINE

    Please comment on any DOCTRINES C.E. post listed chronologically below:

    DOCTRINE DEFINED
    GOD
    SCRIPTURE
    THE DOCTRINE [teaching] of JESUS CHRIST [3-post SERIES].

    (Perhaps the most controversial of all BIBLICAL revelation of GOD.)

    JESUS
    JESUS – 2
    JESUS – 3

    Don’t miss our look at the Trinity

    Holy Spirit
    Trinity

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  • DOCTRINE – WHO SAYS?

    DOCTRINE – WHO SAYS?

    GOD IS One and FIRST

    Is God’s TRUTH not found in SCRIPTURE?

    “How long will you waver between two opinions?
    If the LORD is God, follow him.

    1 Kings 18:21b CSB – the question of the Prophet Elijah to the sons of Israel and false prophets at Mount Carmel

    It’s a great QUESTION Elijah asks of men ‘limping between two opinions’ [LSB].

    Wouldn’t it logically follow to ASK the same QUESTION of TRUTH?

    IF Yᵊhōvâ IS ĕlōhîm come to HIM — the Way, the Truth and the Life.

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    GOD is first in my life. Do YOU have a problem with that?

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    God’s TRUTH

    As a matter of fact,

    • MOST people do have a problem with putting GOD and Jesus Christ FIRST and before all else.
    • Many refuse to study TRUTH of what GOD has revealed for human creatures to consider.

    Why Study GOD ?

    • I have already provided an initial reason AND DEFINITIONS related to doctrine in a brief introductory apologetic.
    a Brief Apologetic for Doctrine
    “Have centuries of history defined by the word of Almighty GOD fallen into a bottomless black hole of godless futility?” – RH
    • In my previous look at The LORD God I intentionally offered only QUESTIONS for YOUR consideration without reference quoting the Bible.
    Theology always Begins with GOD
    “Acceptable Doctrines of the Common Era include a PAN-THEON poised in aTheist theory, pagan myth and stone-cold idols of every egregious god and any false prophet. – RH
    SO NOW WHAT? (Do YOU have answers?)

    the QUESTIONS of doctrine-based Theology

    What is God? – Q4 Westminster Shorter Catechism 

    In case you haven't done your homework, I'll provide an introductory ANSWER HERE, although You'll have to READ the (9) Scriptural answers on your own [referenced in the link above] from which this DOCTRINE is rooted.
    Quest. 4. What is God?
    Ans. 4. God is a Spirit,(1) infinite,(2) eternal,(3) and unchangeable,(4) in his being,(5) wisdom,(6) power,(7) holiness,(8) justice, goodness, and truth(9)

    WHY STUDY GOD?

    IF God is all of this (and more), why would we NOT study more about the Almighty, Eternal and Good LORD, WHO IS the Creator of all things and initiator and sustainer of our own life?

    Certainly YOU have more QUESTIONS about GOD 

    Perhaps you have questions similar to those I suggested last time from DOCTRINE taught through the Baltimore Catechism, which was formerly and formally endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church *before this Common Era).
    * officially replaced by the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults in 2004 C.E.
    Who is God?
    Why did God make you?
    1. Q. Is there but one God?
      A. Yes; there is but one God.
    2. Q. Why can there be but one God?
      A. There can be but one God, because God, being supreme and infinite, cannot have an equal.
    3. Q. How many Persons are there in God?
      A. In God there are three Divine Persons, really distinct, and equal in all things-the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
    Source: https://sacred-texts.com/chr/balt/balt1.htm *

    DISCLAIMER About Sacred-Texts – This site is .. about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics.

    [*note this aTheist approach]
    ‘This site has no particular agenda other than promoting religious tolerance and scholarship.’

    the Baseless questions of philosophers and scholars

    Scholarship, teaching and atheistic claims as an ‘unbiased‘ or ‘scientific approach” to theological and anthropological QUESTIONS frequently lack the logic and truth they claim.

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    There is ONE GOD and one TRUTH.

    “How long will you be limping between two opinions?

    1 Kings 18:21b LSB
    Open Bible to page in Isaiah 65
    All of us have become like something unclean…

    “Now I know this: that you are a man of God and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.”

    1 Kings 17:24 LSB – witness of a widow in Zarephath of Elijah after the Prophet raised her son from the dead

    Answers of TRUTH through Scripture

    chalkboard - written Sola Scriptura! Only Scripture

    All Scripture
    is God-breathed
    and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness

    2 Timothy 3:15 LSB – θεόπνευστος [inspired by God]

    This is NOT to say that the BIBLE contains ALL TRUTH, but that those things revealed by the Lord God through Scripture are TRUE and reliable.

    IF any man should claim some additional ‘truth,’ NOT found in the Bible, THEN this humankind creature made in God’s image imagines the unprovable (even IF its human claim is ‘science‘).

    Are ALL truths EQUAL?

    OF COURSE NOT!

    What claim of man can stand against GOD?

    The heavens declare the glory of God,

    and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands.

    The instruction of the LORD is perfect..

    the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy..

    The precepts of the LORD are right..

    the command of the LORD is radiant..

    The fear of the LORD is pure,

    enduring forever;

    the ordinances of the LORD are reliable

    and altogether righteous.

    Psalm 19:1,7a,c,8a,c,9 CSB

    The LORD Speaks!

    בָרִים (Deuteronomy) 4:1 וְעַתָּה יִשְׂרָאֵל שְׁמַע אֶל־הַחֻקִּים וְאֶל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְלַמֵּד אֶתְכֶם לַעֲשׂוֹת לְמַעַן תִּחְיוּ וּבָאתֶם וִירִשְׁתֶּם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתֵיכֶם נֹתֵן לָכֶם׃

    “Then the LORD spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice. – Deuteronomy 4:12

    “The LORD spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain. Deuteronomy 5:4

    congregation of the Hebrews at Mount Horeb

    “The LORD spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and total darkness on the mountain; he added nothing more.

    He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

    THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

    Deuteronomy 5:22

    tablet of the 10 Commands from the Pentateuch or Law of Moses received from the LORD in Exodus

    Inerrancy of the Bible

    inerrant /ĭn-ĕr′ənt/

    adjective

    1. Incapable of erring; infallible.
    2. Containing no errors. Of or pertaining to inerrancy.
    3. Without error, particularly used in reference to the Bible.
      • The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition •

    “.. the Bible says that God’s words are the ultimate standard of truth.

    If the entire Scripture contains the communication of God to humanity,

    then it can be logically inferred that its contents will reflect the perfect nature of God.

    The logical result of these truths is that God’s Word is without error in everything that it says.

    Therefore, it is proper to call the Bible inerrant, infallible or a number of other terms that Christians use to describe its nature.

    Source: Don Stewart :: Does the Bible Testify to Its Own Inerrancy?

    True Witnesses of God’s Word

    This was the appearance of the likeness of the LORD’s glory. When I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking. He said to me,

    “Son of man, stand up on your feet and I will speak with you.”

    As he spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I listened to the one who was speaking to me.

    Ezekiel 1:28b-2:2 CSB

    Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the speaker, “How long will the events of this vision last ​— ​.. While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me someone who appeared to be a man. I heard a human voice calling from the middle of the Ulai:

    “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”

    So he approached where I was standing; when he came near, I was terrified and fell facedown.

    “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision refers to the time of the end.”

    Daniel 8:13a, 15-17 CSB

    a Voice from the cloud

    After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother John and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. Suddenly,

    Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him.

    He was transfigured in front of them, and his face shone like the sun; his clothes became as white as the light…

    While he [Peter] was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said,

    “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased. Listen to him! ”

    Gospel of Matthew 17:5b [vs.1-3,5]

    Why study God through the Word of Scripture?

    God-willing, we will study this question further NEXT in our look at Doctrines of the Common Era.

    Our point today is that Truth comes from God and not from mankind (humankind, scientists and philosophers).

    The Source of Truth is exclusive to God and what the Lord chooses to reveal to some or all of his mortal human creatures.

    Believe in God and Know the Truth

    You believe in God; believe also in me.

    Gospel of John 14:1b NET

    Jesus replied, 
    “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
    No one comes to the Father
    except through me.

    Gospel of John 14:6 NET

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  • Survey 3 key questions for 2024 of the Common Era

    Survey 3 key questions for 2024 of the Common Era

    Would you answer just 3 questions about the Bible teaching you believe?

    The following brief SURVEY is taken from a more extensive examination of doctrines Learn more: Chicago Statement on Bible Inerrancy [1986]

    COMMENT please on YOUR 2024 CE answers to our Summer 2021 questions about BIBLE teaching in your church.
    From a 2021 SERIES on Doctrine: 
    Do you believe THAT? 
    A Scripture Teaching Survey.
    Followers of Christ must always expect an attack against Scripture. Church doctrine is a line in the sand. - How will a leader or council of leaders choose what the Church will teach?
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    (Does your Pastor preach THAT?) (Have you read that in your Bible?)

    YES
    no

    (Your email questions and comments are always welcome.)

    {click YES or NO button for each question below}

    1. Is all Scripture the word of God?

    YES
    NO

    2. Is Scripture the ONLY Authority of God’s word?

    YES
    NO

    3. Is every word of the Bible TRUE?

    YES
    NO

    Please tell us WHY you answered YES or NO to questions 1, 2 &/or 3 in YOUR COMMENT below.

    (anonymous) Questions? about the latest or any Scriptural post? Comment on a talkofJESUS.com post
    The YES & NO pages both contain MORE info about Doctrine. - RH

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