Christianity for Dummies

     Christians assume that others know what it takes to be a Christian, and what a Christian must believe. Furthermore, what is it that Christians are to do? This commentary will be brief: Christianity for dummies. Some Christians may also need to read this:

(Note: This is commentary on the Doctrine of Christ is based on the free-will perspective and conditional security. Those who believe in predestination, election, and eternal security differ in doctrine. I would advise people to test doctrine themselves using scripture, and not take anyone's word for it other than God's Word.)

• All gods are not the One True God. God created the heaven and the earth. Other gods claim to have done that, but an Almighty God needed only Himself to create. That's what a real God does!
• It is imperative to believe that God created or He is not a true God. Although God is an invisible God, He can be identified by the creation which mankind can see.
• God was here in the beginning and will be in the end. Jesus is God manifested. He was with God at the creation because He is God. God manifested His appearance differently to serve His purpose: the Tree of Life, the burning bush, a cloud by day, a light by night, a man who wrestled with God, a captain of the angels, the angel of God, and a man just like us. 
• God conceived Himself by a miracle using a righteous virgin (Mary) as a surrogate. God put on flesh to feel what mankind feels and to be tempted. God came into the world to die to pay the penalty for mankind's sins.
• Whereas Adam failed with his temptations by the Serpent, Jesus did not. He was without sin. Mankind is not. Jesus is thus the ultimate and only sacrifice for the sins of mankind. Only can by trusting in God's Name - Jesus - can anyone be saved.
• To prove His identity of God, Jesus performed miracles. 
• The words spoken by Jesus were the ideas He spoke before he became flesh. He was "the Word" in the Old Testament, and the Voice in the Garden of Eden. He was not taught Scripture because the Words in Scripture were His!
• When the apostles looked upon Jesus, they were seeing God's face.
• God was ridiculed, persecuted, tortured, and murdered although He was innocent of all charges.
• Mankind is not. Everyone has sinned - doing and thinking things which God commanded that they not. 
• Therefore, God took on the sins of the world since the beginning and of everyone. He then died for all those sins and they were "dumped-out" by God shedding His own blood when it should have been ours. 
• Jesus is the Name who saved; His purpose in coming - to die for mankind - is not to be taken frivolously.
• Jesus gave up the Ghost. The Holy Spirit experienced death with Him but could not die. Jesus's Holy Ghost descended immediately after His body ascended. God came back in Spirit to Comfort Christians. The Holy Ghost of Jesus resides in true Christians.
• Christians are God's temple. God and sin cannot reside together. When a person is born-again, the soul is cleansed of sin, and is replaced with the Holy Ghost of Jesus.
• Born-again, or rebirth, occurs when people diminish themselves and elevate God. The enlightenment that man can't save himself but God can is trusting God for salvation. Believing that God died on the cross for everyone's sin is a pre-requisite to trusting.
• Rebirth changes an individual from the old creature to a new one. Baptism is a testimony to that change. The water doesn't initiate the change, circumcision of the heart does: The new person will be transformed from being served to serving. The born-again person will do that by loving God with all he has, and loving others as he has previously loved himself (herself).
• Loving is the work which is validation that a transformation has occurred - from lost to safe.
• Being born-again makes the person safe. God erects a spiritual hedge around the person so that Satan cannot kill them, although Satan is allowed by God to tempt as a test for faithfulness.
• The reborn person can doubt God. Doubt may be so intense that God is denied. Doubting is lack of faith. Faith is required to remain in safety. Faith is trusting God. Trusting God is what safety is! God can be trusted by Christians so intensely that they have the assurance that they will be saved, and speak of it as if they already are.
• Safe people can and do forfeit their safety by failure to read God's Word and apply it to their own lives. When God is out of mind, He is no longer trusted. The sinful nature - the desire to live for and in sin returns. The person is then in peril. That is apostasy because the person who neglects God, blasphemes against the Ghost of Jesus. Blasphemy is denying God while elevating oneself. Those "reprobate" (spiritually psychopathic) never consider God and are damned.
• God died and suffered the sting of death. Shortly afterward, although having died, He arose from the grave and was glorified, taking on incorruptible flesh. The "hope of salvation" is that those born-again will die and take on new flesh as well, and have eternal life. Why would God not want sinners to die eternally? Because He loves them that much. That love is called grace, and eternal life is a gift from God that cannot be earned. One must trust Him for that!
• Christians are "safe" and each day get nearer "the day of their salvation". Satan tries hard to undermine that faith. Those who overcome the world (ruled by Satan) inherit eternal life. Although at rebirth they are adopted by God as provisionary citizens of the Kingdom of God, on the Day of the Lord, their Visa is stamped and citizenship papers replaces the Visa.
• The Day of the Lord for those dead in Christ and those living for Him, is when they are "caught up" with Jesus at his coming. That day is the Day of Salvation for them, and their hope is fulfilled. That day is called "the rapture". 
• God's forgives and forgets as long as people turn to him. In the last days, God will give some who turned to Him another chance for redemption. Their choice will depend on their faith: beheading or salvation. 
• Christians will be judged by God "good and faithful servants" if their rebirth was genuine. Some God will deny, saying, "I never knew you." They will be cast into Hell with unbelievers and Satan, and be eternally dying in torment. Hell is for real!
• Those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life - Jesus's Book by whose Name they must be saved, are rewarded with eternal life. Their eternal life is in Heaven. Heaven is for real!
• After the Judgment Day - the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord, Heaven will come down to earth, and the meek (Christians) shall inherit it. That's a great day!