Theology is also a “treatise or reasoned discourse about God.” Theology or doctrine may be described as the science which deals with our knowledge of God and His relations to man. It is a science because it is a systematic and a logical study, arrangement of certified facts. Sometimes doctrine is set forth as a dogma in the church. As a dogma, doctrinal teaching is the church’s statement of the truth placed in a church’s creed. There must be doctrine for the body of ministry in Christ to know its foundations, teachings, faith, order, etc. We shall study in this brief course of doctrines, the Bible teaching of doctrines as seen in the message of the New Testament Church.
We have no conscious effort or purpose of a complete study of doctrines or theology presented in this text but rather a furthering of Biblical truths into our Christian’s Faith. Our brief aim in this volume and subsequent works we have rendered is to present a doctrinal and systematic truth about the New Testament church foundation and teaching. With regard to the many differences among critical acclaim scholars and Theologians, we are guided by the foundation truths found in the New Testament teaching. First, as given in the Old Testament, the New Testament by Christ, His apostles and the general practices left oral and written. We present this text not in a controversial or apologetic manner; we are here to declare and expound the gospel truth. Again, with regard to current teachings and ideals, we must make clear; Christianity is not a victim to this age, but rather an answer. It historical message is not out dated or out molded. The truth is, at the very heart of mankind, Christianity and its views transcends all about modern man and gives clear evidence as man way to truth and to life. The world and its coming apocalypse, the conflict and victory of Christ over all things gives us even more evidence that the faith of Christianity is not only the faith of the present but the faith of the future of all mankind.
