A catechism of the biblical Christian faith, written here LIVE. Add your comments below.
Table of Contents
Preface
Question: What is a catechism?
Answer: A catechism is a summary of religious principles taught in the form of questions and answers.
Q: So it’s a FAQ?
A: The word catechism is fancier, but Yes.
Q: What is faith?
A: Faith is trust in the promises made by a loved one in union, while making promises in return, as in a marriage.
Q: What is trust?
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Q: What is a promise?
A: A promise is a covenant.
Q: What is a covenant?
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Q: What is love?
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Q: What is a loved one?
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Q: What is marriage?
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Q: What is the Christian faith?
A: The Christian faith is the hope of everlasting life promised by God through belief in Jesus Christ.
Q: What is hope?
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Q: What is life?
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Q: What does everlasting life mean?
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Q: What is belief?
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Q: Who is Jesus Christ?
A: Sadly, Christians decide that for themselves. See Q: What is the truth?.
Q: What is the biblical Christian faith?
A: The Christian faith understood by reading the Bible plainly, which we intend to do presently.
Q: What is the Bible?
A: The KJV, baby.
Q: Why the KJV?
A: That’s my preferred English translation. We’ll read in Hebrew and Greek too.
Q: What does it mean to read the Bible plainly?
Introduction to Plain Reading
A: Plain reading is to humble yourself in God’s sight, putting aside all argumentation, vain imagination and the philosophies of men, honestly seeking the coherence of the truth by sound exegesis, knowing context and intent by studying all of scripture.
Q: What does it mean to humble yourself in God’s sight?
A: See Get Over Yourself.
Q: What is argumentation?
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Q: Why put aside all argumentation?
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Q: What is vain imagination?
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Q: Why put aside vain imagination?
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Q: What are the philosophies of men?
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Q: Why put aside the philosophies of men?
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Q: What does it mean to honestly seek?
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Q: What is coherence?
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Q: What is the truth?
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Q: What is exegesis?
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Q: What is sound exegesis?
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Q: What is context?
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Q: What is intent?
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Q: What is scripture?
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Q: What is it to study all of scripture?
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Q: Shall we begin with Genesis 1? That’s the first book in my Bible.
A: No.
Q: Why not begin reading the Bible in Genesis 1? I heard there were answers in Genesis…
A: Genesis was written by Moses for the Hebrews, and you don’t think like a Hebrew, and even less like an obedient Hebrew.
Q: Who are the Hebrews?
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Q: Who is Moses?
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Q: What does it mean to think like a Hebrew?
A: See Heaven, Earth and Sea.
Q: What does it mean to think like an obedient Hebrew?
Section 1: Obey God
A: Obey God or perish. Grace ain’t your ticket to disobedience.
Chapter 1: Fear God
The beginning of knowledge is to fear the LORD your God. Fools hate this wisdom.
Chapter 2: Get Over Yourself
Humble yourself in the sight of God, and He will lift you up.
Chapter 3: The Doctrine of Original Knowledge
This is about conscience – your God-given knowledge of right and wrong. It’s also directly against the doctrine of disobedience called Original Sin.
Section 2: This Proving Ground
We’re all Job. God is testing all of us, to see who is worthy to dwell in His kingdom forever, and who is worthy of the fire that consumes, destroying even their souls in hell.
Chapter 4: Heaven, Earth and Sea
Understanding the meaning of these three created realms is to understand the ancient worldview of the Hebrews, the frame around all scripture.
Chapter 5: Men as Trees, Walking
God is the Gardener, and we’re trees. Seriously. I’ll show you.
Chapter 6: The Tower and the Tabernacle
This is about technology and the beast system. It’s about men who build skyscrapers, and starships. They build idols, which are worthless. “They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made” (Isa 2:8b).
Section 3: Prophecy
I will prophesy here, Lord willing, by preaching the word of God that comes by way of reading plainly.
Chapter 7: The Vast Conspiracy
Let’s learn about Solomon and his Masons, and the temple they intend to build…
Appendix A: The Good Questions of God and Jesus
An exhaustive list of all the questions asked by God and Jesus, directly and through their messengers, along with commentary. Their good questions teach us how to ask good questions in pursuit of the truth, which is needed for judging righteously as commanded by God. Asking good questions is a spiritual weapon that hypocrites cannot wield, as it will turn back and cut them every time.
Appendix B: Plainly Reading the Proof-Texts
Here’s where we’ll clear up the vain readings used to support false doctrines, reading those texts plainly instead.