Essential Beliefs

A person once asked me, "What are the beliefs that you believe are essential to being a Christian?"

My reply:

Over 2000 years have passed since Christ walked the earth. Only God knows how many hundreds of thousands of years we humans had a working brain before then.

During those hundreds of thousands of years, there have been hundreds of thousands of beliefs that people were born into and accepted.

How many of these folk had any opportunity to know such things as The Nicene/Apostle's Creed or the "Plan of Salvation"?

We'll all know the truth someday -- and I believe it will involve Christ and His sacrifice on the cross for us. At that time, I expect it will not be the essential things we believed during life that matters as much as it will be the essential kind of heart we had.

"He has showed you, O man, what is good;

and what does the LORD require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

and to walk humbly with your God?"

Micah 6 Verse 8