BELIEVEST THOU God’s promises? Gen. 13:14-17; Psa. 45:16; Acts 3:19-26; 15:13-18; Rom. 4:13-20; 9:4-9; 11:25, 26; II Pet. 3:9; Gal., 3rd and 4th chapters; Eph. 1:13; 3:6.
BELIEVEST THOU that God will keep his promises? Rom. 4:21; Titus 1:2.
IMMORTALITY.
BELIEVEST THOU God, when he tells us through his prophets that our souls are mortal, and that “the soul that sinneth, it SHALL die”? (Eze. 18:4) — and believest thou God when he tells us through his apostle that he “ONLY HATH IMMORTALITY”? (I Tim. 6:16) — and that immortality is something to be gained by seeking for and putting on? Rom. 2:7; I Cor. 15:53.
ETERNAL TORMENT.
BELIEVEST THOU the Lord, the prophets and apostles, when they tell us that the wages of sin is DEATH, destruction — death of THE SOUL — and not eternal life, in torment, nor eternal life in any condition; but that eternal life is the GIFT of God? Rom. 6:23; II Pet. 2:1; 3:9; Psa., 37th chapter.
EVOLUTION.
BELIEVEST THOU that God created man upright? (Eccl. 7:29) — that in the moral “image of God created he him”? (Gen. 1:27), that through disobedience sin entered “and death by sin”? (Rom. 5:12) — and that God sent his only-begotten son to SAVE that (life and Paradise) which was LOST? (Matt. 18:11; Luke 19:10), and to RESTORE ALL THINGS? (Acts 3:21) — or believest thou that man has evolved from the monkey, lost nothing and consequently there is nothing to be saved or restored, and has no need of a saviour or redeemer?
PREDESTINATION.
BELIEVEST THOU the apostles when they tell us that God FOREKNEW and PRE-ARRANGED his plan of salvation before the foundation of the world? — and that the ELECT, the CHURCH, would be conformed to the image of his Son? — and be PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE? — while the obedient of the RESIDUE of men should be blessed with RESTITUTION TO PERFECT HUMAN NATURE? Rom. 8:29; Acts 2:21; 3:21; 15:13-18.
CONDEMNATION.
BELIEVEST THOU the apostle when he tells us that we were all judged and CONDEMNED, before we were born, in the one man, Adam? — and therefore, by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life? Rom. 5:12-21.
SALVATION.
BELIEVEST THOU the Lord and the apostles when they tell us that he came not to destroy men’s lives, but to save them? (Luke 9:56) — and that ALL Israel shall be saved? (Rom. 11:26) — and that he tasted death for EVERY MAN? (Heb. 2:9) — and that “he is the propitiation [satisfaction] for our [the church’s] sins: and not for ours [the church’s] only, but also for the sins of THE WHOLE WORLD”? (I John 2:2) — and that he is the SAVIOUR OF ALL MEN, and ESPECIALLY of those that believe? (I Tim. 4:10) — and that ALL the dead will be (egeiro) aroused in Christ just as ALL have been condemned to death and died in Adam? I Cor. 15:21, 22.
ELECTION AND FREE GRACE.
BELIEVEST THOU God when he tells us through his apostles that he is now, during this gospel age, ELECTING or selecting from among the Gentiles a people for his name? (Acts 15:14) and that during this time no man cometh unto him except the Father draw [call] him? (John 6:44), and that many [not all] are called, but FEW are chosen? (Matt. 20:16; 22:14), and that the few chosen or ELECTED ones are chosen to be made SPIRIT BEINGS like our Lord — to be partakers of the DIVINE NATURE? (II Pet. 1:4), and that after this — after the completion of the church — he will return and rebuild the tabernacle of David, that the residue of men [the non- elect world] might hear the voice of the Son of God and come forth from the graves and seek after the Lord? (Acts 15:13-19), and that it will then be the FREE GRACE AGE, when the Spirit and the Bride, (the church) of the Lamb, will send forth the invitation to who-so-ever will, let him come and take the water of life freely? Rev. 22:17.
RESURRECTION.
BELIEVEST THOU the Lord and the apostles when they tell us that “ALL in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and come forth”? (John 5:28, 29) — and that “there shall be a RESURRECTION of the dead, both of the JUST and UNJUST”? (Acts 24:15) — and that all the unjust dead shall come forth from the graves, and if then OBEDIENT will be made ALIVE, not only in body but also in Christ? I Cor. 15:22.
THE JUDGMENT DAY.
BELIEVEST THOU God when he tells us through the apostles and prophets, that the followers of Christ are NOW BEING JUDGED as to whether or not they be worthy of becoming joint-heirs with our Lord? (I Pet. 4:17; Rom. 8:17) — and that God hath APPOINTED A DAY in the which he will judge THE WORLD in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained? (Acts 17:31) — and that those who prove faithful under the present judgment will rule and reign with him over the world in that day which God hath appointed, and judge the WORLD in righteousness and the people with equity? — and that those of the world who will obey that prophet (Christ, the head, and the church, his body) shall live forever, but those who will not obey that prophet, shall be cut off from among the people in the second death, destruction? Acts 3:19-24; I Cor. 6:2; Psa. 96:11, 12,13; 96:7-9.
THE LAST ENEMY.
BELIEVEST THOU the Lord and the apostles when they tell us that ALL ENEMIES shall be destroyed, and that the last enemy that shall be destroyed is DEATH? I John 3:8; I Cor. 15:25, 26.
FUTURE PROBATION.
BELIEVEST THOU God when he tells us through his apostles that after taking out a people for his name, that our Lord would return and bless the RESIDUE of men with a righteous judgment and with restitution? and that ALL families of the earth shall be blessed according to the oath-bound promise of God? — and would not the fulfill- ment of these promises necessitate future probation? Acts 3:21; 15:13-18; Gal. 3:8.
BELIEVEST THOU?
BELIEVEST THOU God when he tells us through the apostles that the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not (II Cor. 4:4), because they receive not the love of the truth? — and believest thou that for this reason God shall send them [permit] STRONG DELUSIONS, that they should BELIEVE A LIE? II Thess. 2:10, 11, 12.