1) Axioms of thought (presuppositions; tools we use to make sense of the world):

• God exists
• The Bible is the infallible revealed word of God
• The sole basis for authority in argument is the Bible; we can appeal to nothing higher

2) Theology (doctrine of God):

• God is one god revealed in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Trinitarian ontology)
• God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, perfect, self-existent, infinite, and personal
• God is equally a god of mercy and a god of wrath
• God created all that exists by an act of His sovereign will
• God predestined all events before the foundations of the earth were laid
• God alone determines right from wrong; He alone is the source of our Law
• God's will takes two forms: His sovereign will and His statutory will
• God's sovereign will is simply those things which come to pass (reality)
• God's statutory will is the manner is which He requires us to act; it is completely and perfectly revealed to man in the Bible

3) Anthropology (doctrine of man):

• Man is entirely a creature of God
• Man is totally depraved; not one part of him is good from the instant of his conception
• Man is more self-deceived than rational; as man grows closer to God, his rationality increases
• Man and nature are under the Law of God; we may not determine for ourselves what is right and wrong
• Man has free agency that exists inside of God's predestination; man is responsible for his acts
• Man's purpose is to worship and serve God; man serves God by exercising biblical dominion through his vocation, family, and sphere of influence
• Man has no power and authority which are his own; all power and authority is derived from God
• Man does not own property or even his "own" body; all things are the property of God which He places under the stewardship and dominion of those He chooses
• Man has no inherent inalienable rights; God defines which actions are permissible and which are disallowed, therefore, all offenses against man are first and foremost an offense to God; rights elevate man above his proper position; we only have the "right" to life in the sense that God forbids murder; we only have the "right" to property because God forbids stealing, and so forth

4) Bibliology (doctrine of the Bible):

• The Bible is that portion of the knowledge and wisdom of God which He determined to reveal to man
• The Bible is perfect (infallible) and complete; if the Bible appears to contradict itself, it is a flaw in our reasoning – not the Bible
• The Bible does not speak of every subject but it speaks to every subject
• The Old Testament stands on equal footing with the New; God has revealed His will to humanity in covenants which build upon one another throughout history – not in dispensations that negate previous dispensations; only those few things negated by progressive revelation need no longer be followed

5) Soteriology (doctrine of salvation):

• Man as a free agent will never willingly seek God; God alone elects who He will save and sovereignly changes the rebellious will of his elect – giving them both the faith to believe and the will to follow His Law; God's election cannot be resisted by man
• Man is totally depraved and undeserving of salvation; nothing he does can save him or merit God's favor
• Christ's sacrifice on the cross is the only means of atonement; Christ's blood atonement of man's sins is an accomplished work and was only for those specific people who He elected to save before time existed
• God's elect will persevere in their faith because His continuing judgment upon them keeps them from falling from grace; His sanctions and curses mock them from their sin
• The salvation of a man returns him to the position of Adam before the fall of man, from a position of covenant breaking to a position of covenant keeping

6) History, time, and eschatology (doctrine of end things):

• Time is linear: it has a definite start, a definite end, and it does not recur or cycle
• The driving force in history is the sovereign will of God
• History is purposeful: it is always working toward the redemption of all things (despite momentary ups and downs)
• The Great Commission will be fulfilled in time and history by the working of the Holy Spirit: every knee will bow to the Lordship of Christ and all things will be dedicated to His service
• The great tribulation occurred in 70 AD and "The Beast" was the Roman emperor Nero; we are living in the kingdom era and there is only one Great Judgment; the redemption of the world will occur not by a political kingdom of Christ but by the efficacious workings of the Holy Spirit

7) Epistemology (doctrine of knowledge):

• Man is a finite creature and can only know a subset of the infinite knowledge of God
• Man's epistemological goal is to think God's thoughts after Him to the extent he is capable
• The foundations of knowledge are man's presuppositions: those things he presumes to be true in order to make sense of everything else
• Man's presuppositions are his ultimate authority: the highest thing to which he can appeal; reasoning must necessarily be circular at the level of presuppositions
• Man accepts presuppositions on faith; they may only be proven by proving that to believe anything else would be absurd (reductio ad absurdum)
• Faith in presuppositions is more valid than empirical knowledge because presuppositions are the tools for gaining empirical knowledge
• Man's presuppositions will determine the manner in which he interprets empirical facts
• The presuppositions of the Christian worldview are these: God exists and the Bible is the Word of God; to presuppose anything else is to undermine the foundations of knowledge; a world without God is a multi-verse, not a universe – a world of chaos and unpredictability, not a world of purposeful action and predictable results; science is impossible in a world without God
• Reality is the sovereign will of God (that which occurs) – it is not mentally constructed; knowledge is awareness of facts, true wisdom is to interpret reality as God has determined it; the more we see reality as God sees it, the wiser we are

8) Authority:

• No man has authority which is his own; all authority is derived from Christ's total authority
• All relationships between men are governed by God through earthly authority structures He established; the purposes of these authority structures (governments) is to apply the Law of God within each government's sphere of authority; the primary spheres of government are:
• Individual government: self government of the actions of an individual
• Family government: governs the actions of the family and the individuals in it
• Church government: governs the actions of the local bodies of the church universal
• Business government: governs the actions of companies in commerce and employer-employee relationships
• Civil government: responsible for punishing crimes and defending the nation from foreign attack (sin is any lack of conformity to God's Law; crime is that subset of sin that God has instructed us in the Bible to punish carnally)
• Authority is derived directly from Christ to the individual spheres of government in a horizontal fashion; what authority the family has comes directly from Christ, what authority the church has comes directly from Christ, and so forth; Christ does not choose a "greatest" government to give all earthly authority which in turn has the ability to distribute this authority to the others
• Each sphere of government has the authority to distribute the power given it by Christ to its agents in a biblical fashion within its own sphere; one sphere may not give its power to another or presume to give power which it does not have
• Generally, no sphere of government is bound to follow the edict of another sphere when it does not biblically possess the power to make such an edict; the church may not rule the family, the civil government may not interfere with those things which God has left to the individual, and so forth
• For the sake of peace, an edict made without proper authority may be obeyed if and only if its observance does not violate God's Law
• The most basic opposition to a baseless or godless edict is non-compliance by the individual
• If a sphere of government attempts to punish Godly non-compliance in a manner which threatens the non-complying individual with death, kidnapping (imprisonment), or other capital crime, the non-complying individual (or corporate sphere) may resist with deadly force if necessary
• All biblical measures of self-defense apply to any individual regardless of which governing sphere he is an agent of; which is to say, a man may biblically kill an attacker regardless of whether or not the attacker is an individual criminal or is committing such crime on behalf of the civil government

9) Miscellaneous Positions:

• The Dominion fully supports the unregulated ownership and bearing of any and all types of small arms and individual weapons
• The Dominion condemns abortion in any form for whatever reason
• The Dominion fully supports the American War for Independence, the Southern War for Independence, the Texas Revolution and any other group of individuals fighting to throw off the chains of oppressive civil government such as the Christians in Sudan
• The Dominion condemns the actions of the federal government at Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho (in addition to all such other acts)
• The Dominion supports the investigation of the federal government's involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing and the downing of TWA flight 800
• The Dominion supports non-deterministic conspiratorial views of individual events (such as those instigated by the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, Rockefellers, Skull & Bones, etc) but disagrees with monolithic and deterministic conspiratorial theories of history
• The Dominion supports non-paganistic alternative medicine and condemns allopathic medicine
• The Dominion supports home and private schooling and condemns any form of civil government involvement in education or church controlled education (though some church controlled education may be necessary for the short term as a stop-gap measure)
• The Dominion rejects the pedagogy of "Classical" education and believes it to be irrelevant and largely incorrect in its underlying assumptions
• The Dominion condemns as heretical any church that fails to promote the continuing and general application of God's Law to individuals and all institutions in society
• The Dominion supports the home church movement and condemns those who teach that a local, institutional church must be attended regardless of the theology promoted therein
• The Dominion rejects the preacher-congregation model of ecclesiology (doctrine of institutional church authority structure) as patently unbiblical and Romanist in origin; The Dominion believes the biblical model to be multiple laymen elders who all serve as ministers to the church in a part time capacity
• The Dominion supports paedo-communion, paedo-baptism, and distribution of the communion elements by the husbands/fathers
• The Dominion condemns any and all trade with China and similar overtly anti-Christian nations; The Dominion implores all Christians to boycott goods from such countries