New Testament Study Theology

Christian Theology Of The New Testament Church   Systematic and Biblical   “A New Testament Church Ministry’s Perspective of the Apostle Doctrines” Bishop J. L. Payne, DD ThD        Introduction …… Over the last three or more decades, there has been a revolutionary breakthrough in New Testament understanding of the Apostle’s Doctrines throughout the Christian Church. The 21st Century holds an even greater breakthrough. There has also been new understanding regarding the teaching and preaching of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Academic minds in the Christian world has re-examined the teaching of the Apostle. One clear truth has emerged, that is the understanding and teaching of the Doctrine of the Kingdom of God. Theological debate has been very few in relationship to this study and it unveiling. The facts are evident through the New Testament teaching of the letters of the first-century Apostle to the Gentiles, Paul of Tarsus. We now recognized that the Apostle Paul was not merely engaging first-century challenge to Judaism on its own terms, certainly not in the context as Protestant-Catholic debates of the sixteenth century.  A new historical perspective on the meaning of Paul's position for and against the Jews, which occupies so much of his recorded correspondence in several of his earlier written epistles, is based on the perspective that the recognition that he gives to Judaism is not a religion of self-righteousness whereby humankind seeks to merit salvation before God. So many Christian minds interpret it in this manner. Paul's argument with the Judaizers was not about Christian grace versus Jewish legalism. Rather, his argument was more about the status of Gentiles in the church. Paul's doctrine of justification, therefore, had far more to do with Jewish-Gentile issues than with questions of the individual's status of Judaizers before God and their interpretation of the law as it applied to Christ. With this new perspective on the challenge Paul brings to the first century church (the beginning of the New Testament Church), we are now able to: ·                     Better understand the Apostle’s Doctrines, teaching of Paul, the Apostle and the early church leadership; ·                     Be able to reconcile contemporary biblical thought with a working and practical Christian theology for today; ·                     Above all we can build a common ground between all faiths of Christ, Catholics, Jews and Protestants; ·                     Improve dialogue between Christians and Jews; and find a flesh theological foundation for our faith and the social existence and justice between us as universal followers of Christ of all faith throughout the world. We must recognize the Christian banner we carry and the universal faith we embrace for all men and women to be saved. Christian Theology The bases for Christian Theology is Biblical. There is no science, philosophy, and art, social or political thought that could answer man’s explanation of himself. Man’s explanation of himself lies not in man but in God. At the very end or bottom line of all our solutions as mankind in this present world and eternity is theological and spiritual. Thus the solutions and answers of mankind are spiritual and found in scripture. God’s offers in His church doctrines as pillars of life for us. We were made for eternity and there is nothing temporal that can satisfy our eternal need. The doctrines of the Apostles in the true New Testament Church now stands as man final solutions in his Theological search. True Christian theology is the Word of God and is remotely a teaching not bound by time or space, and incomparable to any other teaching of truth. Theology can be considered an embodiment of the Doctrines of God. Yet, theology in its truest sense is a study of God; nonetheless, Divine sovereignty and human existence is explained. A system of theology maintains the balance of doctrines as revealed in scriptures. The Bible unequivocally sets forth divine truths. God is the Eternal, Infinite, Ruler and Creator of the universe with absolute power over man and His creation. With this truth as our underlining fact, we seek without restraints to fully understand and relate the administrations of God and His divine’s methods of administration as given to us in doctrines. In our several quotations from scriptures, we have chosen to use the King James and the Authorized Version, excluding a few rendering of the Revised Version where scripture is more familiar and more preferred. It will be emphasis in this book that the truths of theology and doctrines are vital, important and eternal to men and women lives as a fact, science, or any other science. The fact remains that theology applied to mankind is spiritual and far excels any material and temporal matters on the earth. This truth of theology is revelation of life in the now as well life that is to come. It is for time and eternity.               The Apostle’s Doctrines and Theology        I have introduced in this text, the Christian Theology of the New Testament Church or in some references ‘the Apostle’s Theology and Doctrines.’ This can be described, as a division of Theology in New Testament Doctrines. I introduce this term as a proper division of theology. My one supreme reason for this introduction is to present a positive, constructive and clear message of the Christian theology of the Christian Church in its foundation.  We cannot read hardly any text in the early church teaching, either from Christ or His apostles without realization of truth unveiled for us to understand the will of God through doctrinal truth. Christian doctrine means literally “teaching” or “instruction” and may be defined as the fundamental truths of the Bible arranged in systematic from. Again, may we define a study of doctrine is also called “theology.”  Theology is also a “treatise or reasoned discourse about God.” Theology or doctrine may be described as the science which deals with our knowledge of God and His relations to man.  It is a science because it is a systematic and a logical study, arrangement of certified facts. Sometimes doctrine is set forth as a dogma in the church. As a dogma, doctrinal teaching is the church’s statement of the truth placed in a church’s creed. There must be doctrine for the body of ministry in Christ to know its foundations, teachings, faith, order, etc. We shall study in this brief course of doctrines, the Bible teaching of doctrines as seen in the message of the New Testament Church. We have no conscious effort or purpose of a complete study of doctrines or theology presented in this text but rather a furthering of Biblical truths into our Christian’s Faith. Our brief aim in this volume and subsequent works we have rendered is to present a doctrinal and systematic truth about the New Testament church foundation and teaching. With regard to the many differences among critical acclaim scholars and Theologians, we are guided by the foundation truths found in the New Testament teaching. First, as given in the Old Testament, the New Testament by Christ, His apostles and the general practices left oral and written. We present this text not in a controversial or apologetic manner; we are here to declare and expound the gospel truth. Again, with regard to current teachings and ideals, we must make clear; Christianity is not a victim to this age, but rather an answer.  It historical message is not out dated or out molded. The truth is, at the very heart of mankind, Christianity and its views transcends all about modern man and gives clear evidence as man only way to truth and to life. The world and its coming apocalypse, the conflict and victory of Christ over all things gives us even more evidence that the faith of Christianity is not only the faith of the present but the faith of the future of all mankind.