Where We Stand

Everyone writing about Christian teaching is writing from somewhere. Pretending otherwise does the reader no favors. So here is the position these essays are written from, stated plainly enough that you can read the rest with it in view.

The common ground

These essays hold the historic Christian faith as summarized in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds:

• God — one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• Scripture — the Bible is the inspired and authoritative word of God.
• Jesus — fully God and fully human, crucified, risen, and reigning.
• Salvation — by grace, through faith, in Christ alone.
• The Church — one holy catholic and apostolic church of all believers.

The particular tradition

State your tradition here — Reformed, Evangelical, Lutheran, Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, Presbyterian (합동/통합), non-denominational, or otherwise. Readers will look for this before they weigh anything else on the site, and leaving it unstated costs more credibility than any position you could name.

Where Christians genuinely disagree

A good deal of what Christians argue about falls inside the bounds of orthodoxy rather than outside it — the mode and subjects of baptism, the shape of the end times, predestination and human freedom, the continuation of spiritual gifts, the days of Genesis 1, women in ministry.

On these questions the essays here will state a view and argue for it, but will represent the alternatives as their own best advocates would recognize them. Where an essay takes a contested position, it says so and points to the serious cases against it. An essay that leaves you unable to state the opposing view fairly has failed.

Scripture citations

Scripture is quoted from [name the translation].

A note worth keeping: modern translations are copyrighted, and permission to quote freely is capped — typically a few hundred verses and a fraction of any single book, with a required attribution notice. The NIV, ESV, and NASB all carry limits of this kind, and 개역개정 is held by 대한성서공회. Public-domain options with no such ceiling include the KJV, ASV, and WEB in English.

Sources

Where these essays lean on the creeds, confessions, church fathers, or historical scholarship, they cite them. Most of that material is public domain and linked directly, so you can check the argument rather than take it on trust.