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    Essential Doctrine Made Easy: Key Christian Beliefs
    Essential Doctrine Made Easy: Key Christian Beliefs
    Essential Doctrine Made Easy: Key Christian Beliefs
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    Essential Doctrine Made Easy: Key Christian Beliefs

    By Norman L. Geisler

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    The Essential Doctrine Made Easy Pamphlet covers the basic Christian beliefs that everyone should know.

    Bible study leaders, Sunday school teachers, and church volunteers need a refresher on the basic Christian doctrines     on a regular basis. New people who visit your church wonder, "What do Christians believe?" and "What is basic Christianity?" The young people helping in children's Sunday school classes may not even know what they believe.

    Essential Doctrine Made Easy Pamphlet lists and explains key Christian beliefs embraced by Christians around the world: Christian doctrines such as the Trinity, Christ's Virgin Birth, Atoning Death, and Bodily Resurrection.

    More than one-fifth of Millennials with a Christian background (21%) say Christian beliefs don't make sense to them
    —Barna Group, May 19, 2013

    So, what are the core teachings of the Bible that have defined Christianity for 2,000 years?

    Essential Doctrine Made Easy Pamphlet Explains These Christian Beliefs
    • What is the Core Christian Belief? Where Can I Find it in the Bible?
    • What Do I Actually Need to Believe?
    • What Is At Stake Here?

    Essential Doctrine Made Easy will also show you where to find the answers in the Bible. The pamphlet also includes a glossary of Christian terms, a chart showing how other religious groups treat these essentials, and much more.

    Easily Learn What Other Religions Believe and Compare it with Christianity

    An easy-to-use chart shows how four other religious groups treat the 14 essentials. A key indicates whether the group accepts, redefines or denies each doctrine, enabling the reader to understand the controversies regarding these religious sects. Other religious groups include:
    • Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)
    • Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower)
    • Scientology
    • Christian Science

    Essential Doctrines Made Easy also addresses belief in the inspiration of Scripture and the methods of interpretation, which are important to faith, although not a necessary factor in salvation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateMay 3, 2022
    ISBN9781596365810
    Essential Doctrine Made Easy: Key Christian Beliefs
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    Norman L. Geisler

    Norman L. Geisler (1932–2019) cofounded Southern Evangelical Seminary and wrote over one hundred books, including his four-volume Systematic Theology. He taught at the university and graduate levels for nearly forty years and spoke at conferences worldwide.

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      Essential Doctrine Made Easy - Norman L. Geisler

      What Do Christians Believe?

      What are the key doctrines of the Christian faith? The core teachings of the Bible have defined Christianity for 2,000 years. Virtually all Christians who seek to have a faith that is biblical hold to some form of these basic doctrines. Christians may not always agree on how they work out the details of their faith, but they should agree on the essential doctrines, these core truths.

      In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty, and in all things, charity.¹

      We can identify the essential doctrines of the Christian faith by looking at the core truth of the Gospel, which is the salvation of humanity through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Salvation, as God has revealed to us through his Holy Scriptures, is defined as forgiveness of sins and everlasting life with God by confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing that God raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 10:9). By examining the Gospel message, we can identify 14 doctrines that are necessary for salvation to be possible.

      ¹ Rupertus Meldenius (

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      What Are the Essential Doctrines?

      The essential doctrines of Christianity have to do with

      Arrow who God is,

      Arrow who Jesus Christ is,

      Arrow God’s love for people, and his desire to save them.

      Below are the 14 essential salvation doctrines that have to be true in order for anyone to know God and be saved:

      1.) 

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