How do you form your theology?

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Post by _Paidion » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:14 pm

I want to address the basic question of the thread:
How do you form your theology?

I recognize that Jesus the Messiah is the "Logos of God, that is, the expression of God to man. Perhaps the main reason Jesus lived upon the earth was to reveal the Father to man. If we didn't know that Jesus, who is compassionate, is another exactly like His Father, "the express image of His essence", we might suppose that the Father is exacting, and ready to punish or kill people for the least infraction of His laws. For that is the way He seems to be depicted in the books of Moses.

So I begin with the words of Jesus in "forming my theology". I think more of them are found in Matthew 5, 6, and 7, than perhaps any place in the New Testament.

Secondly, I receive the words of the apostles who were taught by Jesus. This includes the apostle Paul to whom revelation was given directly by Jesus.

Thirdly, I look at the writings of the prophets of the Old Testament.

Fourthly I consider the teachings of the elders whom the apostles chose, and other second century writers who were of the main body of the church.
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