FACT: #God appears as a tag in 300+ posts on TalkofJESUS.com
Who does God instruct to teach others about God?
IF YOU teach others anything about God, then you might also like to reexamine the QUESTIONS of other ‘theologians‘ about our relationship with God.
Our theology will most likely remain ‘on course’ and true by consideration of God by others.
A true doctrine of God will lead the humble created to the One truth revealed to living souls, mere mortal men blazing brief narrow paths from dust to the eternal.
One of the most time-tested ways to approach theology is for the teacher to ASK a question of students (disciples, followers..) and have the class (family, church, etc.) memorize STANDARD doctrinally sound ANSWERS.
TODAY in this Common Era characterized by brevity of thinking and attention span, let’s look ONLY at QUESTIONS of GOD.
I'll do my best to link to original sources for further study from previous doctrinal posts on TalkofJESUS.com - RH
A Creed – Your stated faith, basically brief enough to reaffirm in a worship service (whether weekly or occasionally)
Confession of Faith – A longer extension of a creed more suited for the study of the Doctrines behind our foundational Christian beliefs stated in a creed.
So what is a Catechism?
Think of it as a class (really, classes – like going to school) covering what we ought to know about our beliefs.
* Source: Wikipedia - A Catechism of Christian Doctrine.. or simply the Baltimore Catechism, was the national Catholic catechism for children in the United States, based on Robert Bellarmine's 1614 Small Catechism.. it was the standard Catholic school text in the country from [A.D.] 1885 to the late 1960s..
* officially replaced by the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults in 2004 C.E.
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Doctrines C.E.
Many Creeds, Confessions and catechisms clarifying the faith of Christians for centuries have succumbed to pluralities of culture, exchanging worship of God in Truth for multi-philosophic theory.
our secularly-redefinedCOMMON ERA
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.
* The 1662 Book of Common Prayer (still the official Prayer Book of the Church of England).. including many updates (A.D. 1928) and 2019 of the Common Era.
W H A T is your Name?
Who gave you this Name?
Answer: My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you?
ANSWER
They did promise and vow three things in my Name.
First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps [ostentatious] and vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh:
Secondly, that I should believe all the articles of the Christian faith:
And thirdly, that I should keep God’s holy Will and Commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.
Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe, and to do, as they have promised for thee?
Yes verily; and by God’s help So I will. And I heartily thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. And I pray unto God to give me his grace, that I may continue in the same unto my life’s end.
Common Era READERS must note the seriousness of these VOWS made by baptized Christians and their continuing public confession and confirmation of same. - RH
New City Catechism – 2012 C.E.
“Almost every denomination and tradition in church history has used some form of catechesis for the religious education of Christian children and adults:
In 2012, The Gospel Coalition and Redeemer Presbyterian Church released the New City Catechism.
DOCTRINE of the LORD GOD? or aTheology in the Common Error of humankind?
Although a remnant of Christ-followers and minority of churches continue in True Biblical Doctrine, the enemy of this world has divided and conquered (for now) an indecisive church, non-committal ‘christians‘ and sometime worshippers indifferent to Truth.
a creed or body of teachings of a religious, political, or philosophical group presented for acceptance or belief; dogma
a principle or body of principles that is taught or advocated
Read the fine print below for a more succinct examination of doctrine. - RH
doctrine refers to a theory based on carefully worked out principles and taught or advocated by its adherents [scientific or social doctrines]; dogma refers to a belief or doctrine that is handed down by authority as true and indisputable, and often connotes arbitrariness, arrogance, etc. [religious dogma]; tenet emphasizes the maintenance or defense, rather than the teaching, of a theory or principle [the tenets of a political party]; precept refers to an injunction or dogma intended as a rule of action or conduct [to teach by example rather than by precept]
It seems in the Common Era of NO ABSOLUTES and arguments of ANTI-this’ and ANTI-that’s I had best DEFINE what I mean to apologize to BOTH
+ disagreeing ‘christians‘
and semi-committed A-theists – [mortals AGAINST god AND unequivocally opposed to JESUS Christ].
WHY this SERIES?
I could share many reasons in this Common Era of 2024 WHY I am revisiting ‘doctrine’ but #1:
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
Apologetic for a Common Era approach to Biblical Doctrine
From Before Christ to Before the Common Era
In common Greek, apologia refers to the speech that an accused person delivered in court, rejecting the charges filed against him or her. The apologists of the second century chose this term because they wanted to show that the charges filed against Christians were unjustified and that the truths of their faith could be described and defended. An apologia was dedicated to the Roman emperor, who certainly never read it. [Max L. Stackhouse, “Apologia,” 1988]
The A.D. Second Century CHRISTIAN apologist to whom the article refers is Justin Martyr.
In addition to arguing against the persecution of individuals solely for being Christian, Justin also provides the Emperor with a defense of the philosophy of Christianity and a detailed explanation of contemporary Christian practices and rituals.
The First Apology is dated to between AD 155–157
The theologian Robert Grant has claimed that this Apology was made in response to the Martyrdom of Polycarp ~ in the year of our Lord 155.
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