1) There is a God
The fact of “God” is never proven, questioned or discussed in the scriptures. It is simply assumed:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. (Gen 1:1 ESV)
2) The Bible is God’s word.
4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. (Rom 15:4 ESV)
3) The enemy of God is Satan, formally called Lucifer or Morning Star.
10 “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? (Act 13:10 NIV)
4) Lucifer is a fallen angel (created by God before He created the universe), His sin was pride. He wants to be god.
12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” (Isa 14:12-14 NIV)
5) He rebelled against God taking one third of the angles with him.
4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. (Rev 12:4 NIV)
6) There is a heaven.
43 Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luk 23:43 NIV)
7) There is a hell. It is eternal damnation, a place of torture and separation from God.
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
(Mat 25:41 NIV)
8) Hell is designed and prepared for the devil and his angels (demons)
14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Rev 20:14-15 NIV)
9) The very essence of God is Love.
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (1Jo 4:16 NIV)
10) God created everything in the universe through Jesus His son.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
(Joh 1:3-4 NIV)
11) Everything God created was good.
12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. (Gen 1:12 NIV)
12) God’s special and ultimate creation is mankind.
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Gen 1:26-27 NIV)
13) He created mankind above the animals.
4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: 7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
(Psa 8:4-9 NIV)
14) He called this completed creation very good.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning–the sixth day. (Gen 1:31 NIV)
15) God created this world without sickness or death.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” (Gen 2:16-17 NIV)
16) Satan will do anything he can to injure God. He does this my attacking God’s creation.
17) Mankind was designed to live forever.
22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” (Gen 3:22 NIV)
18) God gave mankind the freedom of choice.
20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God–through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. (Rom 7:20-25 NIV)
19) Mankind chose to rebel against God.
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” (Gen 3:11 NIV)
20) This rebellion caused a rift between God and humans.
23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. (Gen 3:23-24 NIV)
21) Because of this rebellion sickness and death entered the world.
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—
(Rom 5:12 NIV)
22) God is love and wants to reunite Mankind with Himself.
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom 5:8 NIV)
23) God is perfect.
17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good–except God alone. (Mar 10:17-18 NIV)
24) Humans can never be good enough to reach God,
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” (Rom 3:10-12 NIV)
25) God became a man in order to provide a way to bridge the gap between perfect God and imperfect humans.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (Joh 1:14 NIV)
26) The penalty of sin is death.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 6:23 NIV)
27) He died in our place. Paying the price of our sins.
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense–Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. (1Jo 2:1-2 NIV)
28) Because He is God and never sinned, death had no power over Jesus.
9 who has saved us and called us to a holy life–not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. (2Ti 1:9-10 NIV)
29) God Exists in three personages. These three are one yet distinct.
16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” (Mat 3:16-17 NIV)
30) God rose Jesus from the dead fulfilling hundreds of Biblical prophecies.
30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to our people. (Act 13:30-31 NIV)
31) Jesus came back to life in his physical but glorified body.
26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” 28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” (Joh 20:26-29 NIV)
32) He appeared to over 500 people after his death.
5 and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born. 9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
(1Co 15:4-9 NIV)
33) Jesus ascended into heaven to be with the father.
9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” (Act 1:9-11 NIV)
34) Jesus sent his Holy Spirit to live inside all who believe in Him.
22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” (Joh 20:22-23 NIV)
35) When we believe Jesus is God, come to rescue us from our sins, He makes us his children.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
(Joh 3:18-19 NIV)
36) Jesus will return to reclaim earth and all his children.
15 “Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.” (Rev 16:15 NIV)
37) Heaven and earth will disappear. There will be a new heaven and earth.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. (Rev 21:1-2 NIV)
38) Satan, all his angels, and all who rebel against God will spend eternity in hell.
10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Rev 20:10 NIV)
13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Rev 20:13-15 NIV)