Twelve Things You Ought to Know About GOD, THE WORLD, ALL MANKIND, and YOU

Background:

1. The God of the Bible exists (eternal, personal, just, loving, self-disclosing, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent, omni-benevolent, triune, etc.).

2. God created the entire world, and is therefore rightly sovereign over the entire world.

3. God created man with the unique capacity to relate to Him, and is rightly sovereign over all men.

4. God requires moral perfection from man in order to maintain that relationship, because God is morally perfect.

5. Disobedience to God results in alienation from God, because God is just.

6. God requires an atonement to remedy any alienation between God and man.

The Bad News:

7. All men are disobedient to God, therefore, all men are either temporarily or eternally alienated from God.

8. Man is not able to atone for himself, or provide a remedy for this alienation, though he attempts to do so through many inadequate religions and philosophies.

The Good News:

9. Even though man is not able to provide a remedy for his alienation from God, God Himself provides a remedy.

10. God loves man very much and gave Jesus Christ to be the remedy for this alienation.

11. Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate, died to atone for the disobedience of man and satisfied God’s just requirement for an atonement.

12. Any man who repents of his disobedience towards God and exercises faith alone in Christ alone for the glory of God alone (whereas “faith” and “Christ” and “glory of God” are defined by the inerrant Bible alone) to remedy his alienation from God can enjoy fellowship with God now and forever, and thus renders his alienation from God to be only temporary. Any man who fails to repent and exercise faith alone in Christ alone for the glory of God alone will not enjoy fellowship with God, and thus renders his alienation from God to be eternal.

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