Announcing a New Series: What I Believe

I am happy to announce that I'll being doing a series of posts about what I believe.  This will be fun!  The main purpose of the series will be to help you guys know where I stand, but it will also serve to indirectly finish the "Statement of Faith" page (which, as you can see, is still not finished).  It will also kind of help me, because there are a few issues that I myself am not completely cleared up on as to what exactly I believe.  So hopefully, it will be a beneficial experience for everyone.  The purpose of this post is to introduce the series and give you an idea of what to expect.

Obviously, I can't go into every little detail about every single thing that I believe, so I'm going to have to whittle things down to a few (hundred) major issues.  I'm pretty sure you know what a Christian is already, so I'm mainly going to be focusing on Calvinism and Creationism.

So here's how it's gonna go down. We'll start off by diving into Calvinism, by going over TULIP and the Five Solas.  Each post will be divided into four points:

1. What the Sola/point means
2. Where it comes from
3. How it applies to us
4. Common arguments against it (refuted!)

I'm really looking forward to this.  It should be fun!  I'm thinking we'll do TULIP first, and then the Five Solas after that.

I can't wait to get started!  Expect the first post in the series soon.  We'll be looking at the doctrine of Total Depravity; the "T" in TULIP, the first of the five points of Calvinism.  Stay tuned!