Fundamental Truths

In just about everything in life, mastery of the fundamentals is essential to success. This fact applies whether you are a beginning surgeon, musician, athlete, artist, etc. This also applies when it comes to the world of ideas; specifically, those ideas which have to do with the area known in philosophy and theology as epistemology: the “branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.” During the first two decades of the 20th century, there arose a war within the evangelical church between those people termed “liberals” and those called “fundamentalists.” Today those are especially freighted terms. As Bible-believing Baptists, we hold that while it is impossible to know God in the entirety of his being, he has made it possible, by his Holy Spirit and his Word, the Bible, to know his truth. We cannot know all truth, but being made in his image, we can know “true truth.” Essential to this knowledge is the firm grasp of the fundamentals as laid out in God’s Word, the Scriptures. Please join pastor Don Ebel of Bethel Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon as we explore some of the fundamental truths which must be grasped and mastered before we can have a successful life on this earth and in the hope for life hereafter.

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