Both the Old and New Testament testify to the aseity of God. We can only know what God reveals about himself, and we cannot know God comprehensively; nevertheless, we can have true knowledge of him. His revelation is part of his relationship to us as our covenant Lord. God exists in Three persons; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity is not a logical contradiction and is a clear teaching of Scripture, although is very difficult to comprehend. God’s triune nature is implicit in the Old Testament and explicit in the New Testament.

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Systematic theology is often divided into six loci: Theology proper, Anthropology, Christology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology and Eschatology. In theology proper we speak about the communicable and incommunicable attributes of God. The simplicity of God means that his attributes are not separable. Aseity, the property of being self-existent, is one of God’s incommunicable attributes. The name by which he revealed himself to Moses, I Am, points to his aseity.

We answer a question about Scripture having only one meaning. The “little god” doctrine of the Word of Life movement is an example of heretical exegesis. The Bible does contain some passages that are deliberately enigmatic. They cause us to pay more careful attention and expose our hearts. The most important points are: let Scripture interpret Scripture, your attitude, pray for the Holy Spirit to help, use creeds, confessions and systematic theology, and be a member of a good church under the authority of godly, educated men.

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Christians need to be part of a local church and the pastors and elders have the responsibility to interpret and apply the Bible to their congregation. Homosexuality is a sin, but there are professing Christians teaching that it is not. Such teaching is wildly unbiblical and dishonest. We must know what the Bible says so that we will not be deceived by dangerous teaching that leads people to hell.

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There are allegories in the Bible, but we must not allegorize sections without biblical warrant. Because God is the Lord of history, he can even use real historical events as allegories for spiritual truths, as in Galatians 4:21-31. Just as exegesis informs systematic theology, so systematic theology informs exegesis because of the first rule of hermeneutics. Creeds and confessions are important, but the Bible is the ultimate authority, not creeds or confessions.

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Wayne Grudem defines a covenant as “an unchangeable, divinely imposed legal agreement between God and man that stipulates the conditions of their relationship.” God relates to people in the context of covenants. Adam is the federal head of the covenant of works and Jesus Christ is the federal head of the covenant of grace. All people are viewed as being in Adam or in Christ. God also established the Sinaitic covenant with his people through Moses. This is referred to as the old covenant or the first covenant in the New Testament and was replaced by the covenant of grace because sinful people are incapable of keeping it.

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Jesus Christ is the central topic of the Bible and the focal point of history. The Old Testament looks forward to the coming of Christ and the New Testament gives us a record of his first coming and tells us that he will come again. There will then be a new heaven and a new earth and everyone who has ever lived will spend eternity either in heaven or in hell, with no possibility of altering that destiny. We must understand this Christological focus to properly understand the Bible. God providentially controls all of history. God also deals with his people in the context of covenants. Theologians frequently speak about two major covenants: the covenant of works and the covenant of grace.

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The biblical and historical context of a passage is extremely important in determining the proper meaning. We must also remember that the Bible is a unity and cannot contradict itself, so we should never interpret a passage in a way that contradicts something taught somewhere else in the Bible.

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We need to know the historical context of a biblical passage to properly understand it. We must also interpret every passage in the light of all that the Bible teaches since the Bible is a unity and cannot contradict itself. The apocalyptic portions of the Bible are not there to tell us when Christ will return, but are intended to cause us to live more carefully. The Bible uses all normal figures of speech and we need to pay careful attention to them.

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