Evangelical Theology

Because evangelical Christianity is an unincorporated church hierarchy and has no answer to the doctrine, we can recognize him by profession of faith which would be formally representative. Nevertheless, there is common among various evangelical denominations and a unit almost infallible on the following points. We must grasp that, under the evangelical or Protestant faith, they are made with a stated desire to be faithful to the biblical writings. These points of faith are often supported by biblical passages and generally by cross-interpreted what the Bible says on one of those points of faith.

Authority of the Bible

The familiar debate of Western Christianity since the Reformation have often asked the question about who or what was the basis of authority in the Christian Church. Were then advanced voting to affirm the relative importance should be given to Scripture, Tradition and Reason. In other words, what is authoritative: the Bible, the pope or the scholar?

Most of the heirs of the Reformation, foremost among evangelicals, say bluntly that it is the Bible, "Scripture" to be given the first place, and everything else comes afterwards. Thus, Protestants, evangelicals and even less, have no tradition. Among evangelicals, the tendency being that the believer has direct access to the text of the Bible and take out what they think apply to himself. This practice is based on the theological explanation that the Bible itself states have something divine, which invests the authority that Christians must give it.

The Bible is considered to be "inspired" by God Himself (by the Holy Spirit) - to Following the Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16, and about Jesus in various passages of the Gospel ), meaning that it is considered that God has "supervised" the writing of each line of the Bible so that it contains a message in human language sent by God using the intellect, writing styles and editorial talent humans - this concept is called " plenary inspiration. " Often called "the Word of God" or "the Scriptures" (Biblical language), it is regarded as infallible and in some evangelical circles, no mistake - this concept is called " biblical inerrancy. " This earned him sometimes to be interpreted very literally, in some streams, particularly the most conservative in religious matters (current ultra-conservative and fundamentalist). Nevertheless, it appears that depending on media, evangelicals have always tried to reconcile the notions of infallibility and inerrancy of the Bible possibly with a strict form of criticism of the Bible imposed, as agreed, the dimension rationalist Protestantism. According to one of the pillars of Protestantism, Sola Scriptura , we consider that the Bible holds the supreme authority in matters of faith and direction of the believer's life, evangelicals also believe its infallibility (ie d. that evangelicals believe that the supreme authority in matters of faith and practice can not be error-prone). The believer can also be sure to enter the "Scripture" aptly that surrenders its reading of the Holy Spirit.

Trinity

Item found in almost all main branches of Christianity, that the one God, eternal and nobody is ever present and revealed in three divine Persons, namely, the Father (God Almighty), the Son (or "only Son" - littr. , monogeneans, "only begotten" Jesus Christ) and Holy Spirit (or "Holy Breath"). Anchoring emphasis of evangelicals in the biblical writings are certainly different from Catholicism in what they do to justify this belief based on biblical passages or concepts and not on tradition or councils (knowing that the birth of this dogma is often attached to the Council of Nicaea , which took place in the early ^fourth century ). This Trinitarian understanding of God brings to various consequences in the evangelical Christian faith:

God the Father

is to be human the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth (meaning "of the universe in its entirety"). Therefore, a Christian not being a creationist (in the strict sense - without excluding that some Evangelicals possible trends of evolution of species). Furthermore, God is a human Father magnet, and the relationship of humans with God must necessarily (although not exclusively) be that of a child vis--vis his father).

Jesus

It is considered perfectly human and fully God. This component of the Trinity, besides the fact she does not grasp easily, deserves attention, especially because the characteristics of the evangelical Protestant world and lead in particular that this view is a resonance and impact peculiar.

1. Jesus Christ is regarded as the only Son of God or the Father (John 3:16), or only begotten, without any biological connotation (belief in the miraculous birth), but in the biblical sense of the word, as interpreted by evangelical has a symbolic and spiritual status filial to God, closer to transversely Isaac son of Abraham (Book of Genesis ). Indeed, also known as Isaac was the only son of his father, while the Bible presents a fact that he had a half-brother, Ishmael. The uniqueness of Isaac as Abraham's son would be symbolic and spiritual; rabbinic interpretations (Jewish) and Protestant consider indeed that Isaac was the "only son" because he was the only one to achieve God's promise. Besides that, the episode of the sacrifice of Isaac by his father is seen as an endorsement of this understanding, as "pointing to Jesus, or, to use biblical language, this sacrifice was that the" shadow things to come "(Colossians 2:16-17), namely, Jesus offered as a sacrifice.
2. Jesus Christ is regarded as "God made man" - to put it crudely. It is an object of strong faith that Jesus Christ is a manifestation of God's flesh, and has existed from all eternity (especially ev. By John 1:1-3). Indeed, it is considered as the Word (or Word, or Logos) of God made flesh, that is to say, his expression even par excellence, close by the Protestant and evangelical exegesis of the Wisdom of God described above by King Solomon in the Old Testament (including and especially the book of Proverbs 9:1) and the Deuterocanonical writings as an emanation or radiation of the Wisdom of God, although considered apocryphal by Protestants, they use these writings to support the fact that the hypostasis of Jesus as a quasi-personification of an attribute of God was present in Jewish thought and writings canonical or not). The eternal existence of Jesus is also supported in the Bible, in the words of evangelicals, by Christophany (events of Messiah in human form before the birth of Jesus - see especially the high priest Melchizedek in Genesis may be implied in the Gospel of John, chap. 1 v. 10), and words and acts of Jesus (among many other things, that Jesus describes in the same way that the God of Israel, YHWH (Yahweh or Jehovah) was revealed to Moses - John 8 : 58 in parallel with Exodus 3:14). Above all, the fact that the exegesis of the Gospel takes for granted the fact that Jesus has been convicted of a charge of blasphemy by the Jews, because he claimed to be God, is probably one of the first objects attestation of the divinity of Jesus.
3. Jesus Christ is regarded in his divinity, as a party to the trial of the living and the dead will take place at the end of time. Risen up to heaven ( Ascension ), still alive and "sitting in the right hand of God" (Mark 16:19 and passages similar, and passages like Acts 2:33), it is the only worthy intercessor with God (inspired theology Pauline ) to defend the cause of believers converted "to Christ." As a manifestation of God, Evangelical Christianity places significant emphasis on the person of Jesus Christ. He believes, therefore, the Christianity is not a religion but a relationship which is essentially a relationship of commitment with Jesus Christ, considered as the only way to God. As Jesus Christ is the worthy and the only head of the church (breaking classic Protestantism vis--vis the Catholic) Church, which is also called the body of Christ ( Pauline imagery ).

The Holy Spirit (or Holy (-) Spirit, or "Spirit")

The Spirit of God or God as Spirit is considered to be fully God, but it is the eternal manifestation of God in the human dimension. The presence of the Spirit that Jesus promised in the Gospel to those who would convert, as evidenced by the first witnesses of Christ (especially the book of Acts ), Spirit all currents and evangelicals consider this working in the life history of every believer, and in the future of the universal Church (see below). Involved the conversion of the individual, it is considered as originally various grants, which vary significantly if it is based on New Testament writings, but it is common for charismatic denominations emphasize such and such a gift given by the Spirit. These include: the creative gifts (writing and art), the pastoral gifts (supervision and guidance of the communities), the apostolic gifts (preaching, teaching ...), the prophetic gifts (prophecy in its various forms), the extraordinary gifts (miracles and miracles). Evangelical Christianity comes from roughly a century of emphasis on the Spirit and his action in human lives and in the Church (read "community of believers). Thus, we consider that increased the acceptance of Jesus in his life (read "conversion"), the Christian is not supposed to live after the flesh but after the Spirit (Pauline theology).

Resurrection

There are several ways to resurrect. Of these, evangelical Christianity is probably more emphasis on the new birth which takes place in the conversion of the believer, considered as a real transition from spiritual death to spiritual life (based on John 3:3 "Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God, "and John 10:10). This emphasis, often very strong in certain names, has earned several groups of evangelical Christians to quip the born-again Christians, more famous as the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of (see 2 Corinthians 5:17 ET Galatians 6:15). Yet, it must be said, one of the fairest ways to designate the Christian evangelical persuasion in terms of personal conversion. The belief in a final resurrection of the dead at the end of time is also part of the confession of faith of the Gospel.

Doomsday

It is a belief in Christianity in general and in other monotheistic religions at the end of time humans will be judged by God. Jesus Christ, then, following the biblical writings (including the Old Testament), will return personally, bodily and visibly. While these other religions and branches of Christianity conceive they will be judged based on their actions (or "works"), an important point of Protestantism in general, is to believe that humans will be judged on their faith, ie in evangelical Christianity in particular, on their acceptance or rejection of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord when they heard the Christian gospel in their lives. See also article on eschatology Christian.

The Plan for Hi

The plan of salvation according to the evangelical base. The evangelical doctrine based solely on the Bible, it reads using the following verses:

"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ. "

"The wages of sin is death but the gift of God, that's life eternal in Jesus Christ. "

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life." "

"If a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. "

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Jesus Christ. "

The term "evangelical" comes from the gospel: the Greek- (eu-aggelon, literally "good message" by extension "good news"). For evangelicals, the good news is that any sinner by nature must suffer punishment in eternal Hell , but only through faith in Jesus, he can access free at Hi (eternal too), without passing through a Purgatory. Hi This plan is seen differently by the Catholic Church.

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