© 1994-2017, Scott Sperling
About Scripture Studies…
“Scripture Studies” is edited by Scott Sperling, who is also the primary
contributor. He attends a small, non-denominational church in Southern
California. Below is a doctrinal statement that reflects the beliefs of the
editor.
Scripture Studies Doctrinal Statement:
The Bible, consisting of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, is
the Word of God, a supernaturally given revelation from God Himself,
concerning Himself, His being, nature, character, will and purposes; and
concerning man, his nature, need and duty and destiny.
There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in
three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Our Lord Jesus was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy
Spirit and born of a virgin - Mary, a lineal descendant of David. He lived
and taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as
is recorded in the four Gospels. He was put to death by crucifixion under
Pontius Pilate. God raised from the dead the body that had been nailed
to the cross. The Lord Jesus after His crucifixion showed Himself to be
alive to His disciples, appearing unto them by the space of 40 days. After
this, the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven, and the Father caused Him to
sit at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and
authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not
only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all things in
subjection under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the
Church.
The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation, existed in the form of God and of
His own choice laid aside His divine glory and took upon Himself the
form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. In His pre-
existent state, He was with God and was God. He is a divine person
possessed of all the attributes of Deity, and should be worshiped as God
by angels and man. "In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily." All the words that He spoke during His earthly life were the
words of God. There is absolutely no error of any kind in them, and by
the words of Jesus Christ the words of all other teachers must be tested.
The Lord Jesus became in every respect a real man, possessed of all the
essential characteristics of human nature.
By His death on the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement for
sin, by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased and a ground
furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners. He redeemed
us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place. He who
Himself was absolutely without sin was made to be sin on our behalf
that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. The Lord Jesus
is coming again to his earth, personally, bodily, and visibly. The return of
our Lord is the blessed hope of the believer, and in it God's purposes of
grace toward mankind will find their consummation. The Holy Spirit is a
person, and is possessed of all the distinctively divine attributes. He is
God.
People were created in the image of God, after His likeness, but the
whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam. People are justified on
the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the
simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed the blood, and are
born again by the quickening, renewing, cleansing work of the Holy
Spirit. All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord,
and who confess Him as such, become children of God and receive
eternal life. They become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ.
At death they enter into eternal life with Christ.
“‘Come now, let us reason together,’
says the Lord” Isaiah 1:18