Brief Doctrinal Statement

Biblical Framework Ministries rests upon the Bible’s own view of itself rather than imposing upon it pagan notions of language, sense experience and logic. The biblical text insists that God created man and nature in such a way that He is revealed everywhere and always to every person. Herein lies the only rationale for the way we all inevitably use language, sensory data, and logic to ascertain truth.

The Bible uniquely and repeatedly speaks of a post-creation rebellion against God that has led to discord in both natural and human history. Only here emerges a comprehensive explanation for the universal experience of our deep sense of alienation from God and the abnormality of present existence. The many failed attempts of man to live out individual and corporate fantasies of an “OK” world are unflatteringly exposed for what they are.

Self-consistently with these truths, the many biblical authors report God’s progressive revelation of history’s ultimate goal—when good and evil and life and death will be eternally separated, never to mix again. Unlike the pagan imagination that devises counterfeit schemes of individual, societal, and global self-improvement, the Bible testifies to the only real solution that requires the ethical reconciliation of man with God.

Central to this biblical view of history is the unique Person of Jesus Christ who as God the Son incarnate demonstrated “normal” human existence in obedience to God the Father by relying upon God the Holy Spirit’s empowerment. In contrast to pagan hero-leaders, the Lord Jesus perfectly manifested grace and truth as He met every test we commonly experience and eventually successfully completed the necessary atonement for humanity’s rebellion against God on the Cross.

Quite the opposite of pagan imaginations of the future, we place our faith and hope upon Jesus Christ as the historically resurrected and ascended leader of the new humanity from whom alone we receive the eternal life that he came to bring. In him the final stage of history has already begun and cannot be stopped by any power. All men everywhere, then, must confront Jesus Christ in faith as Savior or in unbelief as Judge regarding their eternal destiny.