Biblical Doctrine 001 - Overview

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Doctrine Series

Overview

When we come to the Bible, we must not look at ourselves, rather, we are to look to Yahweh...

Job 40.1-14
Job 42.1-6

The terms 'Theology' and 'Doctrine' are terms that most run away from because people think they are too strict and archaic, and that they hold no value...
-Many a person nowadays thinks that 'Christianity' is about focusing on ourselves, on our ability, and on our feelings and emotions....

The truth of the matter is that mindset is antithetical to the actual call of The Lord Christ Jesus...
-We are to deny ourselves...
-We are to pick up our cross [not a situation, but the instrument of death], and we are to die to self daily...
-We are to submit to The Lord Christ Jesus...

When we come to the Word of God, we are actually to study who God is, which is what the term 'Theology' actually is...
-Theology = the study of God
-This means that in all reality, everyone who is truly of God is, in fact, a theologian...

The Bible is our text-book, and God Himself is the One that the text-book speaks about...
-This means that both the old testament and the new testament are equally important, and nothing can be taken away...
-This means that if we come to the Bible for any other reason than to know Yahweh, we are off base...
-If our hunger and thirsting for knowing God is not there, then our claim to be Christian is questionable...

Whilst the term 'Theology' and the titles of the doctrines that we will cover are not specifically in the Bible, they have been created and used by reputable men of old to teach and understands the basics of the Bible...
-Part of the problem with modern day evengelicalism is that the terms are not used at all, and even the concepts that each term denotes are no longer really preached or taught from the pulpit, which they really ought to be...

One of my greatest laments is not knowing proper theology, or knowing the doctrines when I was growing up...
-Fortunately by the grace of Yahweh, I learned them after my conversion in 2013-14
-Even then...it was not till 2017[ish] when I was listening to sermon from Martyn Lloyd-Jones where I actually heard the reason for being a Christian in the first place:
1 Peter 3.18

-Also, concerning a church service, Martyn Lloyd Jones has a quote:
'A church service should be nothing but intolerable for a non-beleiver; and for those who believe, a service should make the believer humbled and chastened'
-This is a reality I have never really had from a church service...

Theological Doctrines:

Bibliology: the study of the Bible

Theology Proper: the Study of God properly

Christology: the Study of The Lord Christ Jesus

Pneumatology: the Study of The Holy Spirit

Antropology: the Study of Man [in relation to God]

Hamartiology: the Study of Sin

Soteriology: the Study of Salvation

Ecclesiology: the Study of the gathered people [the Church]

Eschatology: the Study of the End Times

Angeology: the Study of Angels

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