From time to time I wish the forum Profiles required us all to define our belief systems more clearly. There are people who call themselves Christians, for instance, who have different beliefs from my own, sometimes within what I would accept as Christianity, sometimes not. And there seem to be many shades of difference beyond that, shades of religious belief, from Deism and Unitarianism to a vague sort of Theism and beyond, of agnosticism, of atheism and whatnot. There are people who take the Bible seriously but don't regard it as inerrant and specifically object to certain parts of it.
So I thought I'd start a thread to ask everyone to define what they believe. It would be nice to have a clearcut list of relevant points but I haven't come up with one. I suppose we could always come back to our defining post and add information as we go.
I'd like to keep each statement of belief as brief as possible.
I'll just define myself:
I consider myself to be an orthodox Protestant Christian inspired mostly by the Protestant Reformation, believing in Christ Jesus as the Messiah promised from the beginning of the Creation to die for my sins and save me from eternal damnation.
I consider the Bible to be the inerrant word of God, and the sole authority in all things having to do with God and the Christian life.
I'm also a Young Earth Creationist, basing my belief in a 6000 year old Earth on the years that can be added up among the ages of the Patriarchs of the pre-Flood world, from Adam to Noah, in Genesis 5.
I also believe in the reality of a usually-invisible spirit world, both angels who serve God, and fallen angels or demons headed by a fallen archangel originally called Lucifer, now called Satan, the enemy of God and all humanity but especially God's people, as revealed in the Bible.
I'll add to this as issues come up and I hope others will join in to describe their own beliefs.
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He who surrenders the first page of his Bible surrenders all. --John William Burgon, Inspiration and Interpretation, Sermon II.
2Cr 10:4-5 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God...