Faithfully And Firmly

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.” 2 Corinthians 1:3 (NKJV)

In the name of He who shall stand and feed His flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord His God, Messiah Yeshua “Jesus,” greetings.  See Micah 5:4 (NKJV)

Recently, on the local “Christian” radio station I heard “The gospel is trinitarian in origin and shape.”

In the not so distant past I heard a different person say, in their attempt to defend the doctrine of the trinity, “When someone tells me the word trinity isn’t in the bible I say neither is the word bible.”  At the time I treated this as just another one of the “silly” things tied to the Anthanasian Creed, so I left it at that.  It wasn’t until I heard “The gospel is trinitarian in origin and shape,” did I remember it.

How does one come to make these two statements?  They [believe in] accept things added onto what Jesus accomplished in the first century, in this case the Anthanasian Creed.  The Anthanasian Creed and the doctrine of the trinity, go hand in hand.

“This is the catholic (Christian) faith; which except you believe faithfully and firmly, you cannot be saved.”  - The last sentence of the Anthanasian Creed.

It [only] takes the last sentence of the Anthanasian Creed to prove that the Anthanasian Creed as a whole, adds onto what Jesus accomplished in the first century.  What the Anthanasian Creed is asking you to “faithfully and firmly” believe is not part of God’s simple salvation message.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”  John 3:16 (NKJV)

This is the gospel message, “that whoever believes in” Jesus “should not perish but have everlasting life.”  That is all God is asking you to “faithfully and firmly” believe, and that is all we need.

God bless.

In His Care… Jim