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The Apostle’s Doctrines and Theology
I have introduced in this text, the Christian Theology of the New Testament Church or in some references ‘the Apostle’s Theology and Doctrines.’ This can be described, as a division of Theology in New Testament Doctrines. I introduce this term as a proper division of theology. My one supreme reason for this introduction is to present a positive, constructive and clear message of the Christian theology of the Christian Church in its foundation. We cannot read hardly any text in the early church teaching, either from Christ or His apostles without realization of truth unveiled for us to understand the will of God through doctrinal truth. Christian doctrine means literally “teaching” or “instruction” and may be defined as the fundamental truths of the Bible arranged in systematic from. Again, may we define a study of doctrine is also called “theology.” Theology is also a “treatise or reasoned discourse about God.” Theology or doctrine may be described as the science which deals with our knowledge of God and His relations to man. It is a science because it is a systematic and a logical study, arrangement of certified facts. Sometimes doctrine is set forth as a dogma in the church. As a dogma, doctrinal teaching is the church’s statement of the truth placed in a church’s creed. There must be doctrine for the body of ministry in Christ to know its foundations, teachings, faith, order, etc. We shall study in this brief course of doctrines, the Bible teaching of doctrines as seen in the message of the New Testament Church. |
