The Fundamentals of Christianity

By K.V. Anglin

God initially gave His Word to earth by way of the Jewish community, so that Jewish culture could be reflected in his Word throughout the world (rom. 3:1-2). This results in their translation of the Bible being the closest to his intention for mankind. For that reason I use The Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) as my text for this manuscript.
CHRISTIANITY
Christianity is not a religion. It is that type of being wherein the life of Jesus Christ is portrayed in and through the life of another person. It originates from the term Christ, which means The Anointed. Originally, Christ Jesus was the image of God's person (Heb.l:3), but was now anointed to carry out two missions. 1) To become the prototype for man, and 2) to bring man into conformity to his own person, thus making man the image of God (Rom.8:28-30).

The process of redemption effects in man the transformation that renders him a new creature (2Cor.5:14-21; GaI.2:19-20). Redemption is possible only through faith in the shed blood of Christ. Having gone through this process one becomes a Christian and his lifestyle is Christianity. It is therefore not a religion but it supersedes religion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781463409678

K.V. Anglin

God initially gave His Word to earth by way of the Jewish community, so that Jewish culture could be reflected in his Word throughout the world (rom. 3:1-2). This results in their translation of the Bible being the closest to his intention for mankind. For that reason I use “The Complete Jewish Bible” (CJB) as my text for this manuscript. CHRISTIANITY Christianity is not a religion. It is that type of being wherein the life of Jesus Christ is portrayed in and through the life of another person. It originates from the term Christ, which means The Anointed. Originally, Christ Jesus was the image of God's person (Heb.l:3), but was now anointed to carry out two missions. 1) To become the prototype for man, and 2) to bring man into conformity to his own person, thus making man the image of God (Rom.8:28-30). The process of redemption effects in man the transformation that renders him a new creature (2Cor.5:14-21; GaI.2:19-20). Redemption is possible only through faith in the shed blood of Christ. Having gone through this process one becomes a Christian and his lifestyle is Christianity. It is therefore not a religion but it supersedes religion.

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© 2011 by K. V. ANGLIN. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 12/15/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4634-0966-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4634-0965-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4634-0967-8 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011908627

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Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE BOOK

SECTION A

1. IN THE BEGINNING:

2. THE HOLY TRINITY:

3. GOD LOVES HIS CREATION

4. LUCIFER

5. LUCIFER’S DREADFUL FALL:

SECTION B:

I. THE PRINCIPLE OF RE-INCARNATION:

2. THE LAMB SLAIN

3. THE DEVIL SINNED FROM THE BEGINNING

4. GOD’S SUBSTITUTE:

5. MAN’S SUBSTITUTE:

SECTION C

1 TIME INSTITUTED

2. GOD PROPOSED TO MAKE MAN

3. THE LAMB OF GOD

4. THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST AND THE LAST FIRST:

5. MAN’S FALL INTO SIN

6. CHRISTIANITY IN FOCUS:

7. CHRIST REFLECTED IN EACH BOOK

8. THE CALL OF ABRAHAM

9. THE EMERGENCE OF THE MESSIAH

SECTION D:

1. CREATION RESTORED

2. THE SON OF MAN AND THE GOOD NEWS:

3. PAUL’S AFFILIATION WITH THE GOOD NEWS:

4. WHAT REALLY IS CHRISTIANITY?

5. CHRIST THE ONLY WAY:

6. A NEW AND LIVING WAY:

9. PERSECUTED BY THE JEWISH COMMUNITY:

10. PERSECUTED BY STATE GOVERNMENT:

11. ENEMIES OF CHRISTIANITY:

12. THE HOUSE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST:

13. THE WORLD OF SECULAR HUMANISM:

SECTION E:

1. CHRISTIANITY IN REALITY:

2. THE NEW CREATION:

3. THE PROSPECT OF CHRISTIANITY:

4. THE KINGDOM RESTORED:

5. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE GODHEAD IN THE UNIVERSE:

SECTION F:

1. ISRAEL AT LAST REDEEMED:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Popularly known as KV, the Rev. Dr. Kenneth V. Anglin, a Jamaican native, in 1988 migrated to the USA, after serving concurrently both as Minister in the New Testament Church of God, and teacher in the Jamaican public school system for some thirty years, on study leave.

Immediately entering Fordham University in New York, he graduated in 1992 with BA in Psychology. Subsequently, he moved to Connecticut where he did MS in Education at the University of New Haven. Not willing to unlearn his experience as a teacher before relearning in order to get certified to teach in the American Education system, and being confronted with various forms of discrimination, including age, through help from God, he made it through seven years of unemployment, during which time he was forced to file for bankruptcy.

During such time, he did voluntary church work among Caribbean natives. Now being based at the Bridgeport Church of God which was renamed Cathedral of Faith Church of God—in collaboration with the recently appointed Bishop Patrick L. Kelly, he founded the YAD EL School of Ministry in fall of 2002, of which he was President for four years.

Over the years, Rev. Anglin has been an outstanding Bible teacher, Youth Camp Lecturer and counselor, as well as great challenge and role model to the youth of his generation. In 2005 he wrote the book WHAT IS MAN which is reviewed at http://www.starredreview.com/synop179.htm.

This edition of Fundamentals of Christianity has come out of his years of study, research and experience from doing ministry, and is like a breath of fresh air in a world of stagnant ideas.

ABOUT THE BOOK

God initially gave His Word to earth by way of the Jewish community, so that Jewish culture could be reflected in his Word throughout the world (Rom. 3:1-2). This results in their translation of the Bible being the closest to his intention for mankind. For that reason I use The Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) as my text for this manuscript.

CHRISTIANITY

Christianity is not a religion. It is that type of being wherein the life of Jesus Christ is portrayed in and through the life of another person. It originates from the term Christ, which means The Anointed. Originally, Christ Jesus was the image of God’s person (Heb.l:3), but was now anointed to carry out two missions. 1) To become the prototype for man, and 2) to bring man into conformity to his person, thus making man the image of God (Rom.8:28-30).

The process of redemption effects in man the transformation that renders him a new creature (2Cor.5:14-21; GaI.2:19-20). Redemption is possible only through faith in the shed blood of Christ. Having gone through this process one becomes a Christian and his lifestyle is Christianity. It is therefore not a religion but it supersedes religion.

SECTION A

1. IN THE BEGINNING:

It was l-o-n-g, l-o-n-g ago, eons before the inception of time, or even of the world in which we now live. There were no planets; no worlds, nor was there the existence of anything at all. There was however that Great Eternal Spirit. Time was not yet, neither was there any creation. There was only a vast expanse of dark empty nothingness: an infinite and everlasting vacuum and void. This is a concept that is virtually inconceivable to the human mind, being so much accustomed to things. Such a state is not even knowable; however, the concept is understandable but only by way of faith. "Through faith we understand . . . :" Heb.11:3. Such a situation is in essence, the representation of an eternal neutral force that was totally dormant, ineffective for anything at all. It was neither good nor evil, and was without any determinable quality of any kind, as we conceive the idea of quality.

There was no planet nor world revolving on its axis within the vicinity of another as we now know it, giving rise to day and night; neither was there any that would frequent its rotations around another, to indicate signs, and seasons, days and years, or for that matter, time. Again, time was not yet. There was however, That Great Eternal Spirit: an integrated compact of all positive principles: principles that are infinitely existent. Among others these are the spirit all of Life and Living, all knowledge and wisdom, all power and might, all benevolence and good, all uprightness and rectitude, all holiness and justice, all space and existence, representing the embodiment of all positive entities that could ever come into existence. Compacted together, these being potent with life engendered its unique personality: majestic, magnificent, and magnanimous.

Since these attributes preceded the application of the name GOD though the compact of which he is, they are fundamentally existent principles eternal in scope, it remains then that God is without beginning and he can never come to an end or go out of existence. He is the being that is just infinitely eternal, making him the Great Eternal Principle and Spirit, Father of all. That is the Spirit to which we ascribe the name GOD. Can such a unique Spirit be fully conceptualized by the human mind, or be encapsulated or enclosed within the ambits of time, space, or any other dimension knowable to man? To spare creation the horrors of being terrified by his awesome, terrible and dreadful presence, his invisibility is crucial and very gracious. Again, invisibility is crucial in his having to be omnipresent. God is Spirit and a spirit can not really be manipulated or controlled by anything physical or corporeal. A spirit always seeks to be the motivating force behind any corporeal operation, working from within it.

Apart from the Divine Being who must have existed in the midst of all this nothingness, nothing else existed but a vast vacant expanse, with no evidence or demarcation of a beginning, nor was there any concept of an end to any of this. But who was there around then, to conceptualize, identify, or even to acknowledge anything? Apart from the Great Eternal Spirit there was neither awareness nor consciousness. Nothing, but nothing, alongside the Almighty Presence of being was in existence.

Out of this seemingly omnipresent nothingness, the great uncaused cause of all that now exists caused to come out of it, himself first of all. There was really no cause for his emergence, except that which is known personally to him alone; but being in essence there, he caused to come into existence at his own will, everything else as validation and attestation to his prior existence and power. And so, having enabled all things, he has earned the right to become progenitor of all, and the Eternal Father: the God and Father of everything that is in existence, having absolute right, privilege, authority, and power over all endowed in him. Having such prestigious absoluteness in him, he alone reserves the right, privileges, authority and power to decree at will, all laws, principles, and precepts; and so he set in array the systems of CAUSE AND EFFECT. Every effect, of necessity, has to have a prior cause and a logical one at that; but he himself is the primal uncaused cause of all things.

The use of anthropomorphic expressions is