Your Personal Theology

        Our personal theology determines how we understand God and understand our relationship with God and His Creation.  As for me, my life is formed around what is known as Apostolic Theology, also known as Orthodox Christian Theology.  Another name for it is Biblical Theology because in historic Christianity it is in Scripture that the Lord lays out His plan of salvation for us all.
        The Old Testament reveals that the primary problem in this life is our fractured relationship with God, fractured by our sinfulness and rebellion against His sovereignty as Creator of this world.  The corruption and evil that infects this world also witnesses to our estrangement from God.  This broken relationship with God is reflected in our broken relationships with each other.  The Old Testament is a testimony to our powerlessness to correct this situation.

        The New Testament is God’s revelation that He is, in fact, not powerless to correct this situation.  God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and He does it in Christ.  God loves us enough to step into Creation in the person of Jesus to become for us “the Way, the Truth and the Life;” that is, the way back to the Father, the truth about Himself and Creation, and the source of a new and redeemed life with Him.  No other theology, no other worldview, and no other religion submits to the fact that we can contribute nothing to our salvation except faith and trust in what God can do for us.  

Father Rob