Ever wonder how the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egpyt still stand on top of stand? In this first session. Pastor Mano Paul teaches What is doctrine? What is dogma? What are the foundational fundamental doctrines that every Christ follower ought to know. How we interpret the Scripture? What is exegesis of the Scripture? Why is eisegesis of Scripture dangerous? What does Hebrews 6:1 mean? We will learn some new words around the foundational Christian doctrines which include Theology, Christology, Pneumatology. Bibliology, Angelology, Demonology, Anthropology, Hamartialogy. Soteriology, Ecclesiology and Eschatalogy!
Can you live without breathing? Can you fight without knowing your own strength or your enemies plans/schemes or their strength? What does it mean to be skilled and mature in terms of being worshippers, workers and workers in God's kingdom and covenant program? In this study, Pastor Mano Paul explores with you the reasons as to why one must study Biblical Doctrines.
1. Is the Old Testament still relevant today? 2. If the Bible is the text and the Holy Spirit is the teacher, then why is it that we have some many interpretations? What does it mean that you are the aroma of life to some and aroma of death to others? In this study, Pastor Mano Paul explores the answers to these questions from the Bible, so that one can be on guard and be watchful like the commendable Berean Jews (Acts 17:11).
What is the New Covenant? What does it mean when God says, "I will be your God and they will be my people"? What can we learn from the love story where a prophet marries a prostitute? Who is God? How would you define God? What are the worldviews of God? Can we know God? How has God revealed himself to us? How can one prove the existence of God or should they? Theology is the study of the doctrine of God. Theology is Faith seeking Understanding (fides quaerens intellectum). Mankind seeks to understand God by knowing about him. Knowing about God from how he has revealed himself to us will help us know God and that is a life changing experience. The proof is in the pudding in the eating.
Who is God? How can we know about him? What is General revelation? What is Special revelation? How has God revealed himself in General revelation (in Nature) through Creation and Conscience? How has God revealed himself in Creation? What can we learn about God from his creation? What is the eternal Godhead? Can someone say that they never knew about God? What is conscience? When did conscience get woken up? How did Adam and Eve know that they had done something wrong? How did Cain know that the he had done something wrong? Is conscience limited only to believers of the Lord Jesus Christ? Is Conscience available to all mankind?
How does your conscience help you in knowing God? What does it mean that man is created in the image of God? What is Conscience? How can conscience accuse or excuse someone? Can a Christian bow to an idol in a temple as an act of his civic duties? What is a Strong conscience? What is a weak conscience? Can a Christian eat food sacrificed to idols?Â
What is the purpose of Conscience in living a Christian life? What happens when you don't heed to the voice of the moral compass God has innately created in all mankind? What is a Cauterized (or Seared) Conscience? How can we identify people with a Seared conscience amongst us? When law supercedes legalism, what is the problem? Does conscience accuse or condemn? Does God condemn? When the Pharisees were convicted by their conscience, how did they respond and what that the right behavior or did they have a seared conscience? WhenJesus healed on a Sabbath day did he break the law? What does it mean to have a Cleansed conscience? Do you have a cleansed conscience?
How has God been revealed himself in the Scripture'? Who is God? How do you complete the statement, "God is..."? What does Godhead mean? What does it mean when we say "the divine nature of God"? How do we reconcile with the Trinity when we say God is One LORD? What does Trinity mean? How is Trinity implied in the Old Testament? How is Trinity expressed in the New Testament? What is it mean to say that we have One God and One Mediator God?
What does it mean when one says "God is Light?" What characteristics and attributes of God is revealed in Scripture as it pertains to his essence of being The Light? How was there light in the world when the sun and the moon were not created till the forth day? What is darkness? What is the color of darkness? What does it mean, when we say "God is Holy?" Jesus among other gods!
God is not resentful. He does not think evil. He does not count the wrongs! From the lives of Esau, Joseph, Stephen, Paul, Philemon and Jesus The Christ, we learn as to how God is not resentful. He does not treat us as our sins deserve. He forgives and forgets confessed sin and elevates us from being slaves to brothers.
We have all be wronged by someone or we have wronged someone. What is the right Christian response when you have been wronged? What does it contextually mean when Jesus taught us that we out to turn the other cheek, give our cloak along with our coat when demanded and go the extra mile?Â