Explaining Biblical Christianity in 1 Page

God created humanity to responsibly oversee the world he provided¹ and to pursue perfect, everlasting community with him.² Heaven is this marriage of humans with God and his perfection, and our Creator knows this is the best possible outcome for each of his created.³ God is the Father, Son (Jesus), and Holy Spirit, explaining different aspects of his nature through this Trinity to better help us accomplish our purpose of knowing him.⁴ Jesus is also God’s Word, manifested by God speaking the universe into being, by his words and deeds while living among us, and by all of God’s written Word.⁵ This Bible is the only consistently accepted and authoritative autobiography from God, to which all other opinions about God must understandably be subject, so that we can most accurately come to know him.⁶

Such a relationship cannot be forced if it is to be meaningful, so God gives every human the free will to believe whether or not this eternity with him and his perfection is best.⁷ People who desire an existence apart from God will be granted that,⁸ where each can try to achieve his or her own idea of perfection. This absence of the Creator’s legitimate authority, order, and provision is called Hell, a punishing anarchy of selfish conflict we see precursors of where godlessness thrives on earth.⁹ God doesn’t force anyone into Heaven or Hell; for us to be able to freely chose him in Heaven, Hell must exist as an alternative.

This decision to know God and goodness, or to preferably know evil instead, is originally given to the very first humans and repeatedly to us as well.¹⁰ Every choice to know evil and what is not God is sin, and our Creator justly punishes this rebellion with nothing more than our requested knowledge of evil.¹¹ Our collective and perpetual sin immerses us all in the inequality, flawed understanding, suffering, and death that knowing evil encompasses.¹²

The way we all physically and spiritually experience the world are imperfect as a result, incompatible with the perfect community God created us for. We cannot remove our existing imperfection, whether by ignoring it or by doing any list of deeds or rituals to cover it.¹³ Therefore, when we leave this world and our bodies, our spirits cannot exist in Heaven and must exist apart from God’s perfection instead.¹⁴

God was unwilling to have his purpose of everlasting community with us ruined, so he graciously became the solution we could never generate or deserve on our own: Jesus.¹⁵ A human body merged with God’s Spirit, Jesus sinlessly and undeservedly subjected himself to the experience of evil and death we deservedly subjected ourselves to.¹⁶ Because he is human, he can substitute himself for us in receiving this punishment for our sin.¹⁷ Because he is God, he has the right as the offended party to forgive and the power to rise from the dead.¹⁸ His resurrection into a perfect, everlasting human body and ascension into Heaven proved God could resurrect those who also want to exist with him in his everlasting perfection.¹⁹ No other solutions absolve us of imperfection; they only bury it under varying lists of good deeds.²⁰

This salvation process begins with a person freely demonstrating faith that God can do what he says, that he will do what he says, and that what he says is best, which necessarily includes what he says about Jesus being the only valid solution to humanity’s imperfection.²¹ Upon confirming this genuine desire for him and his perfection, for fulfilling our purpose, God graciously accomplishes the entire work of salvation for these people.²² He calls them to the gospel of Jesus that he knows they’ll believe, then he accompanies their willing spirits with his Holy Spirit, guaranteeing the faithful persistence of a lifelong pursuit of him into eternity.²³ God didn’t purpose us simply to be in Heaven or to be saved, but to be with him.²⁴ And a life of increasingly godly behavior doesn’t save us or get us to Heaven; it’s an inevitable result of desiring him and his perfection.²⁵

God chooses to bring his truth and love to the world through those who follow him with this desire, a Body of Christ called the Church.²⁶ These people are identifiable not by a label but only by evidence of an increasing pursuit of God himself: Valuing his morals, sharing him with others, and caring for those in greatest need whom he also cared and cares for.²⁷ As Christ’s global Body, everyone within the Church must value each others’ gifts and truly work together to follow Jesus’ example of speaking God’s truth in the context of love.²⁸

Jesus will return to resurrect the dead and initiate a day of judgment for all humans.²⁹ Those whose lives have demonstrated the pursuit of God and his perfection through the redemption of Jesus will go to be with God forever in Heaven. Those whose lives have demonstrated the pursuit of their own definition of perfection apart from a desire to be with God through Jesus will go to exist forever apart from God and his perfection in Hell.³⁰ God desires that we all accomplish our created purpose of everlasting, perfect community with him, and through several creative and biblical means brings every human meaningful access to a knowledge of him and his gospel.³¹ But he does not force anyone into such a relationship, giving everyone a just opportunity to choose for themselves.³²