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NASB | Jude 1:3 ¶ Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jude 1:3 ¶ Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I was compelled to write to you [urgently] appealing that you fight strenuously for [the defense of] the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints [the faith that is the sum of Christian belief that was given verbally to believers]. |
Subject: What do we believe? |
Bible Note: This discussion of creeds is interesting. We are doubtless aware that over the centuries many have been developed and they are still in the process of being refined, expanded, combined, etc. See http://www.creeds.net. I believe that these things have their uses, and they may be helpful in circumstances. The “Apostles Creed” has been widely accepted, but it is not certain to what extent it captures or summarizes all that we believe. What I was suggesting is that we search, to see what scriptural statements spell out our beliefs, as Peter’s did in John 6:69. In keeping with this idea, it has been suggested that some of the following scripture passages may have been used by the Lord’s people and repeated on certain occasions as statements of their beliefs. To the list I found I have added some of the ones that I think might also fit. I would like to look for more and make a list of all of them. Deut. 6:4: Hear O Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD alone. 1 Kings. 18:39: "The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God." Matt. 16:16: "Christ (is) the Son of the living God." Matt. 28:19: (We are to) go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. John 1:49: (Jesus is) the Son of God! Jesus is the King of Israel! John 6:68-69: We have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God. Joh 11:27 Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. John 16:30 We believe that Jesus came forth from God. John 20:28: (Jesus is) "My Lord and my God!" Acts 8:36-37: "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God“. Acts 16:31: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 1 Cor. 8:6: For us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. 1 Cor. 15:3-7: Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. 2Co 5:1 If our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Phil. 2:6-11: Though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 1Th 4:14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again, (and that) them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 1 Tim. 3:16: Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory. Hebr. 6:1-2: The foundation is: repentance from dead works and of faith toward God. 1Jo 3:2 Now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1Jo 5:20 The Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. |