About Us
The purpose of TruthWHYS is, as the name implies, to determine, deliver, and defend the reasons (the WHYs) for the truths of God and his Word--the Bible. At TruthWHYS we cling to the Word of God as the defining and bounding authority for our faith and practice. Our Statement of Core Beliefs rests firmly on Scripture, and we seek to ensure that all our additional doctrines and biblical interpretations maintain solid footing in God's Word.
Although we maintain this outlook, we do realize that many other individuals, churches, and organizations who claim the same hold on biblical fidelity often differ on numerous issues. While truth is to be found in the Bible, the backgrounds, focused perspectives, and presuppositions that we all bring to our reading at times tend to skew proper interpretation. And that is the point for a website such as this. Our goal is clear: we want the truth. We believe that reasoned discussion among fellow believers provides opportunity to broaden perspective and thus help ensure that we hold to the proper path toward our goal.
We invite you to look around the website. Our Core Beliefs (those "mere Christianity" fundamentals that unite us in Christ) will provide you with an understanding of our foundation. The other articles and features build from that basis as we attempt to grow closer to our Lord and to each other in the family of God.
Our Fundamentals
We Believe . . .
That the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, is the divinely inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God;
That God is One in three Persons, called Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
That God, being perfect, is eternal, infinite, and immutable;
That Satan, a real being created by God, through self-aggrandizement has made himself in all respects the antithesis to God, and that being thoroughly evil, he is God's enemy;
That humankind was created in the image of God with moral conscience, conceptual intelligence, creative imagination, relational love, and effective volition;
That humankind in its ancestral head, Adam, sinned, causing a necessary separation from God and a sinful nature that is passed through procreation to all humankind, thus producing not only a share in the guilt of original sin, but also the propensity to sin, resulting in the condemnation of all to a Godless eternity in Hell;
That a person is incapable through any work of his own to attain or merit a reconciliation with God and, therefore, salvation from his eternal destiny in Hell;
That Christ Jesus is fully God in all His attributes;
That Christ Jesus was made fully man through his incarnation;
That Christ Jesus came into the earth born of a virgin and therefore without the sin nature inherited from Adam;
That although tempted in all points as humankind, Christ Jesus lived His life on earth free from sin;
That the guilt for the sins of humankind was placed upon Christ Jesus while He hung on the cross, and thus through His death, Christ Jesus paid the penalty for those sins, satisfying the wrath of God;
That Christ Jesus, because of His retained holiness, was resurrected from the dead and now sits at the right hand of the Father making intercession for the saved of humankind;
That the redemption of humankind is accomplished by the grace of God alone, through Christ’s atoning work alone, and applied without any human meritorious work;
That to receive this redemptive grace (1) those who had died before must have had faith in who God is and in the Word of God, and (2) those who lived afterwards must also have faith in the Word of God, specifically, in Christ as God, in Christ’s atoning work, and in its application to themselves;
That once the guilt of sin is removed from a person, the Holy Spirit is given to live within that person, thereby enabling him to be called God's adopted child;
That, as Christ promised, He will return again to earth at God’s appointed time to gather his covenant people, both those who have died and those who are alive and remain, for complete and eternal relationship with God.
