Christian beliefs: Sin, Death, Salvation by Faith

4. Satan deceived Adam and Eve to sin

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die' (Genesis 2:16-17)

Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'

"Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return" (Genesis 3:13-19).

5. All human beings are sinners

"Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men (human race), because all sinned."

"Righteousness comes from God through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood" (Romans 3:22-26).

6. God promised a seed of a woman to crush Satan's head

God said to Satan, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and hers; He (her seed) will crush your head, and you will strike His heal" (Genesis 3:15).

"For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19).

"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel (God living with man)" (Isaiah 7:14).

"When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: Death has been swallowed up in victory. 'Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death is your sting?" (1 Corinthians 15:54-56)

"The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet" (Romans 16:20).

"When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth -- Gog and Magog -- to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever" (Revelation 20:7-10).

7. Virgin birth of Jesus

The full account of the birth of Jesus Christ according to Book of Matthew.

8. Salvation is found only in one person Jesus Christ

"It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. He is the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone. Salvation is found in no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:11-12).

9. We receive salvation by faith

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -- and this is not from yourselves, it is a gift of God -- not by works, so that no one can boast" (Ephesians 2:8).

"God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).

"And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son does not have life. I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life" (1 John 5:11-13).

10. All our sins (past, present and future) have been forgiven

When we receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior He forgives us all our sins.

"For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins" (Colossians 1:13-14).

11. We are saved to do good works

Good works that we do are the result of Christ Jesus working in and though our lives.

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:9).

12. There is only One Human Race

God blessed them (Adam and eve) and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it' (Genesis 1:28).

"From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; ... God did this so that men would seek Him and find Him, ..." (Acts 17:26-31).