Essential Knowledge for the Baptismal Candidate #1 About God

 

Those who want to be baptized are expected to know essential points of faith.

Only one true God

We expect the baptismal candidate and those who want to be part of the Christadelphian Community to believe in only one God, who is an eternal Spirit who is the Causer or Creator of the universe.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1 Darby)

“And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Genesis 1:27 Darby)

“By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.” (Psalms 33:6 Darby)

“For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, he who established it,  — not as waste did he create it: he formed it to be inhabited:  — I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else.” (Isaiah 45:18 Darby)

“14 If he only thought of himself, [and] gathered unto him his spirit and his breath, 15 All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.” (Job 34:14-15 Darby)

“Thou art worthy, O our Lord and [our] God, to receive glory and honour and power; for *thou* hast created all things, and for thy will they were, and they have been created.” (Revelation 4:11 Darby)

“And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;” (Ecclesiastes 12:1 Darby)

Only one that belongs to worship

It is That Only God We must worship in good conscience in spirit and truth.

“God [is] a spirit; and they who worship him must worship [him] in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24 Darby)

“yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and *we* by him.” (1 Corinthians 8:6 Darby)

“Hear, Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah;” (Deuteronomy 6:4 Darby)

“That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.” (Psalms 83:18 Darby)

Only eternal

Only Jehovah God is without beginning (having no birth) and without end (having no death). Jehovah God is from eternity to eternity.

“Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art *God.” (Psalms 90:2 Darby)

“But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.” (Jeremiah 10:10 Darby)

“Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.” (Isaiah 40:28 Darby)

“Now to the King of the ages, [the] incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.” (1 Timothy 1:17 Darby)