There are certain foundational doctrines upon which Christianity is based, which if a person denies or questions—they are simply NOT saved. Here are some of the major teachings of Christianity:
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The Godhead - The Deity of Jesus Christ
- The Sinfulness of Mankind
- The Literal Blood Sacrifice of Jesus Christ
- The Virgin Birth
- The Sinless Life of Jesus Christ
- The Existence of a Literal Hell with Fire
- The Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Anyone who questions or denies these Biblical truths is unsaved, never having been born-again, and will die in their sins and go to Hell if they don't repent. 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. What they fail to mention is that the word “Godhead” is found
in the Bible, i.e., if you have a reliable Bible that hasn't been corrupted
by Satan.
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 that 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 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.
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
Witnesses' false religion claim that Jesus is a god, but not Almighty God.
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.”
Despite the hordes of religious churchgoers who
praise the “reverend” Martin Luther King Jr., he openly denied the Godhead,
the Virgin Birth 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.
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 and swallow us into hellfire beneath, 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.
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 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.
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.
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).
