Todd Merkel
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Biblical illiteracy is the Church’s silent crisis. Yet, It speaks volumes. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” - Hosea 4:6 I stand on the inerrant, sufficient, and final authority of God’s Word. Scripture alone is the standard for all truth, doctrine, and righteousness. I confess the biblical Trinity: one eternal God in three coequal, coeternal Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I proclaim Jesus Christ as fully God and fully man, eternally begotten, not made, the radiance of the Father’s glory and exact imprint of His nature. Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works of the Law. God sovereignly elects, regenerates, justifies, and preserves His people. The Doctrines of Grace are the gospel rightly understood. I defend and teach the faith boldly, but I prefer to teach with clarity and patience, for the edification of the saints and the equipping of those still learning sound doctrine. The true Church is not a denomination or institution, but the invisible body of all regenerated believers, united to Christ by faith and indwelt by the Spirit. I reject all man-made traditions and false gospels that oppose the gospel of grace: this includes Roman Catholicism, the mass, Eucharist, purgatory, indulgences, Marian dogmas, as well as the prosperity gospel, Black Hebrew Israelism, sinless perfectionism, oneness, modalism, open theism and any teaching that undermines the finished work of Christ, the true nature of God and the true nature of Christ, just to name a few… Worship belongs to God alone, Father, Son, and Spirit. The Law cannot save; Christ fulfilled it. Romans 8:28 All things. God. His purpose. His elect.