The Trinity is foundational to understanding who God is and how he acts. At the heart of the Trinity is shared essence and relational dynamic—three Persons in perfect unity, living and acting in love. By exploring their essence, interactions, and distinct roles, we gain insight into the God who created, redeemed, and sustains all history.

Salvation fulfills the soul’s deepest desire for truth, goodness, and beauty (TGB), restoring image bearers to everlasting love relationship with God. God invites reconciliation, and by faith, humans respond, entering the relationship that satisfies their yearning for life’s ultimate purpose and joy. Salvation eradicates guilt, redeems separation caused by sin, and brings everlasting life. To reject it is to remain separated from God, the source of life and love, resulting in everlasting death.

Kinship Theology emphasizes that salvation—the rescue from sin and the sin condition enslaving humanity, and the entry into love relationship with God—encompasses justification, sanctification, and glorification. Salvation begins with God’s revelation of himself as Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (TGB), and his desire for love relationship with his image bearers. Humans, unable to merit salvation, respond in faith and repentance to God’s revelation, prompted by the soul’s innate longing for TGB. Through this response, God applies salvation, forgiving guilt and redeeming the cursed condition. Jesus, as the Word, did not die as a substitute for human guilt but conquered death by putting his cursed body to death and redeeming it through resurrection. This atoning rescue delivers believers from annihilation and secures restoration for their souls and all physical creation.

Kinship Theology is the theological view that, since God, in his essential nature of truth, goodness, and beauty, lives always and only in that one essence by his personal, communal activity of faith, hope, and love, he necessarily interacts with his creation on the basis of love relationship.

The gospel is the good news that Jesus, by the will of God, purchased the redemption of physical creation, becoming its Lord. He overcame the sinful dominion of human essence in his own flesh, putting it—along with its curse—to death, and reclaimed that flesh sinless through resurrection, restoring it to his soul’s rule as intended. In doing so, he demonstrated victory over all physical creation—the shared essence of humankind—granting him dominion over all. By his victory, Jesus fulfilled God’s covenant commitment to create for everlasting love relationship with his creation and made possible the resurrection of all image bearers who, through repentance and faith, seek that relationship with their God.

The atonement is the means of reconciliation of fallen humans—image bearers—to our perfect God for the purpose of everlasting love relationship. The reconciliation is accomplished by the removal of the obstacles to love relationship: (1) individual guilt for actively choosing satisfaction in truth, goodness, and beauty from an assumed source other than God as a result of elevating that chosen relationship over relationship with God and (2) the corporate, enslaving hold of the cursed human-spirit master—humankind’s physical essence. The atonement is accomplished by God’s forgiveness removing both obstacles.

Conditional Immortality teaches that those who reject God through Christ ultimately choose to exist apart from him. In complete separation from God, their existence cannot continue without his life-sustaining presence.