Christian theology is actually extremely simple. It boils down to love. Here’s my own uneducated grasp and what I teach my kids.

God is love. The Father loves the Son, the Son loves the Father, and the Holy Spirit embodies the love between them and proceeding from them.

God is eternal, omnitient, and omnipresent but created us in a sort of pocket dimension bound by chronological time. At the end the bubble dissolves and returns to eternity with God. Some will be united to Him in love and some will reject His love and be separated forever.

Humans were created to share in this perfect love, both to love and be loved. We had to have the choice to reject His love or else it wouldn’t be real love. Our ability to commit evil is bound up in the purpose of our creation, to choose true love. Evil is a necessary byproduct

Mankind betrayed God and rejected His love at the beginning. The punishment for rejecting absolute eternity is separation forever from true love, which is Hell, unending torment.

We were driven from the garden to prevent us eating from the SECOND tree and being separated FOREVER

With our betrayal and rejection in place, that original sin and the ability to create evil entered the world. Those angels who rejected God and doubted Him sought to prove themselves right. They NEED to be right. They seek to prove Man is not worthy of God.

We are tempted.

To redeem us from original sin and ALL sin, God Himself descended to receive death at our hands, forgive us, and rise again to prove His authority over all things. The Son openly partook of our suffering. He as the Father also willingly gave His only begotten Son to die for us.

As we choose love, we obey and bond more tightly with our Father. As we reject that eternal love, we sin. Sin is an English archery term which means “to miss the mark”. When we reject that love, the commandments to live a loving and obedient life, we reject an eternity with love.

Evil is at its nature a rejection of love, especially a child’s love for their Father and His loving authority over us.

The aim is to do what is commanded out of love, trusting that even if we do not agree at the time, our Father who loves us knows best for us and loves us.

It all goes back to this: Loving our Father, receiving His love instead of denying it, loving each other because it pleases Him and to honor the love He gave us when we get rejected Him, and loving His Son who died for us out of love for us.

All flows from this.

We’ve heard enough about what Christians are supposed to be against. Let us hear from now on what Christians are for.

We are for absolute love viewed in the light of eternity with a glorious Father and King who govern us with absolute justice, mercy, and perfect love.

This is my imperfect attempt to explain the faith as far as I understand it so far. I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, and if anything here is flawed I invite those with better learning than myself to set me straight and better educate all readers.