My name is Nathan and I have been a Christian my entire life. However, it has only been over the last decade, approximately, that I have made my own choice to actively and devotedly follow Christ. I hold to no particular denomination, although I have happily worshiped in Baptist, Conservative Quaker, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Evangelical Free churches over the years.
I hold to all the foundations of traditional Christian teaching: That we serve a triune God who created the universe and everything in it; That we are all guilty of moral crimes against this God and that we justly deserve punishment for these crimes; That this God, not desiring that we should face such a punishment but whose perfect righteousness and justice demanded that an account be made, sent the second person of the Trinity, the Son, to earth to live a blameless life and then die on a Roman cross in our place as payment for our crimes; That the Son, Jesus the Christ, then literally rose from death to life on the third day and lives today in Heaven; That this substitutionary atonement is freely available to all who are willing to bow the knee before the throne of God and acknowledge Jesus as the rightful Lord over all creation, being the creator himself, and then turn their lives over to Him to do with as He will; That there will come a day when Jesus the Christ will return, every eye shall see Him, all the dead will be raised to life again, and then we shall all be judged individually for the crimes we have committed against God; Finally, that we are all guilty and left to our own defense we should be righteously and justly judged criminals against God, but if we have acknowledged the atoning work of Christ and committed ourselves to Him then He will be an advocate before the Father for us, demonstrating that He has stood in our place and the debt that we owed He had taken on Himself, and on that basis there is nothing that can be held against us.
It is upon this understanding of Christianity, from my love of science (which is the study of God’s creation), and upon the ancient traditions of philosophy that I write what I write.
