What Are The Similarities Between The Rock And The National Association Of Evangelicals

As Christians, it is easy to assume that all who proclaim the same faith as us shares the same beliefs and thus the same doctrine. However, after reading the Nicene Creed, the National Association of Evangelicals’ doctrine, and the doctrine of my own church, The Rock Community Church, I learned that this is simply not the case. The three doctrines share several similarities, especially when discussing the deity of Christ and his life, but there were several discrepancies that could ultimately determine how you live out your faith. Although both The Rock and the National Association of Evangelicals agree that Jesus led a sinless and blameless life, the Nicene Creed does not address this issue. In the National Association of Evangelicals’

The Rock clearly states this at the forefront of their doctrine, “These three are one God having the same nature, attributes (Infinite, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omniscient) perfection’s and, therefore, worthy of our complete and total praise, worship, honor and obedience.” However, the Nicene Creed once again does not explicitly state that this is their belief. They do allude to it shortly, stating “And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life. He proceeds from the Father and the Son, and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.” This does indicate that the Holy Spirit is important and should receive praise, although not once does it say that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit together compose the trinity. This is slightly confusing; they believe the Holy Spirit is from the Father but he proceeds the Father, indicating that they are not all together

There are clear statements that indicate the Bible is not only God breathed, but it is a whole and true document. The Rock not only mentions the Bible being God breathed, “Holy men of God, being moved by the Holy Spirit, wrote every word of Scripture, and it is divinely and uniquely inspired, being absolutely trustworthy in all matters of faith and conduct,” but it explicitly states that because all scripture is God breathed, “all Scripture in the original manuscripts are inerrant in that it conveys exactly what God wants us to know and is complete in it’s present form.” The Nicene Creed never once discusses the Bible nor it’s inerrancy. It is interesting to see that they left this out and also committed the idea that God spoke every word of the Bible and it was written by his holy