Finding Truth Matters

11/10/2026

https://www.findingtruthmatters.org/articles/theology/exploring-the-creeds-of-christianity/

by Dr. Andrew Corbett, 24th September 2025, Melbourne, Victoria.

COMPARING THE CREEDS

The Doctrine of Perspicuity says that God has given mankind His message in the Scriptures which can be clearly understood. That is, if a person was just to read the Bible they would understand its message. But there is a counter-doctrine known as the Doctrine of Perspicacity which says that mankind’s sinful heart will always tend to distort what God is clearly saying. This is why the formation of Creeds was both necessary and possible. Each of these creeds refer to the ‘catholic’ church. It’s important to note that the formulators of these creeds were not producing denominational statements of faith. They saw their role as formulating universally applicable statements of true doctrine for all Christians so that false doctrines could be readily identified. Thus, ‘catholic’ in this original sense does not mean Roman Catholic, but universal.

At the establishment of the Church in the first century, copies of the Scriptures were not readily available. The truth of Scripture was encapsulated into short memorable sayings known as creeds. There are...

The Doctrine of Perspicuity says that God has given mankind His message in the Scriptures which can be clearly understood. That is, if a person was just to read the Bible they would understand its message. But there is a counter-doctrine known as the Doctrine of Perspicacity which says that mankind....

27/09/2026

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25/09/2026

With all that's going on at the moment, this eBook may be very timely, and this weekend only it's 50% off !

About CHRISTIANISED WITCHCRAFT, Getting Things Wrong in Jesus’ Name I first wrote about spiritual warfare in the early 1990s. After originally being a practitioner, I became suspicious that I had been sold a dud by the dozens of paperback books appearing in Christian bookstores and the various vis...

14/09/2026

This week's audio podast -

The Gospel of Matthew was written by an eye-witness of Jesus the Christ - what He did, what He taught, the miracles He performed, the lives He transformed, and how people responded to Him. It was orig

30/08/2026

This week's audio podcast : https://soundcloud.com/drandrewc/the-matthew-project-part-7?si=00c7de00300547d38782d75b5fc4131a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The Gospel of Matthew was written by an eye-witness of Jesus the Christ - what He did, what He taught, the miracles He performed, the lives He transformed, and how people responded to Him. It was originally written to Jews who were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their promised anointed Messiah.
After being with Jesus for nearly three years in which the 12 disciples heard what Jesus preached and saw the miracles He performed, Christ commissioned His disciples to go out in pairs and do likewise. But He also warned them that ultimately the day would come when they would be persecuted for no other reason than they were His disciples.
Christ's warnings about the inevitability of persecution teaches us several truths:
(1) Persecution is spiritually motivated by evil forces.
(2) It's not about you, it's about the devilish enemy's hatred of Christ and therefore His servants.
(3) Persecution is not logical, fair, or rational.
(4) What Christ expects of His disciples when they are being persecuted is courageous faithfulness - which Christ Himself modelled to them.

27/08/2026

This is part of the research project I am currently undertaking -

As we proceed in our study through Genesis I am going to argue that its introduction in the opening chapter marks one of the predominant themes of this book. As such I will demonstrate that the book has been ordered in a way that we are able to see why certain people did not live up to this created....

24/08/2026

-= The Authority, Infallibility, and Divine Inspiration of the Bible =-

Nearly everything we do is built on trust. When we eat we trust that we will not be poisoned by the cook. When we go for a walk we trust that other walkers will not bump us out of their way. When someone tells us something we trust that they are telling us the truth. In fact, there is hardly anything we do in our everyday lives that does not involve trust. While we generally trust those we have come to know, we readily trust some people whom we do not know if they are people possessing appropriate authority such as a policeman, or a medical doctor or an airline pilot. The right authority invites and engenders trust. Christians trust the Bible because it derives from the highest authority – God. In fact, Christians have good reasons (a rationale) for believing that the Bible is divinely inspired and the only infallible and authoritative written Word of God.

The Bible is not the only ‘book’ that God has given mankind. Christians believe that God has given two ‘ books ’ to mankind – (i) the written, authoritative Word of God, and (ii) the ‘book of nature’ – and that by either, a person may come to know the Creator. But as Article 2 of the Belgic Confession (1559) states, it is only the Bible which is ...

Nearly everything we do is built on trust. When we eat we trust that we will not be poisoned by the cook. When we go for a walk we trust that other walkers will not bump us out of their way. When someone tells us something we trust that they are telling us the truth. In fact, there is hardly anythin...

05/08/2026

This week's Finding Truth Matters audio podcast - THE MAJOR THEMES OF THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, Part 3 - Why Jesus Described Himself as 'the Son of Man'...

30/07/2026

Why would a good, all-powerful God allow natural disasters that often result in the loss of untild numbers of human lives?

Why would an all-powerful God allow natural disasters that often result in the loss of human lives when He could prevent it. Here's why.

26/07/2026

Why were Christ's original hearers absolutely stunned by how and what Jesus preached in His Sermon on the Mount to thousands and thousands who sit on the hillside to hear Him?

Christ was no mere preacher or teacher! Consider how the crowds res...