A statement of Ideology or Dogma

In another location I am involved in, we have started a dialogue, probably focused on the Orthodox / Conservative divide, but one that may also explore the Chareidi / Modern continuum as well. A point that was brought up is that one can explore a group’s identity via understanding it’s ideology or Dogma along one axis and the actualization or practice of the group along the other.

I’m using this as an opportunity to try and organize what I think is "my" Dogma axis. It will likely be incomplete and will hopefully evolve base on comments and discussion..

1) God Exists
2) God communicated with Am Yisrael via various people
3) God gave Am Yisrael a set of rules to live by through his communication with Moshe
4) This set of rules is mandatory and the source of it's authority is God
5) This set of rules contains two parts, one written and one oral
6) The written part is what we commonly describe as Chumash or Five Books of Moshe
7) The oral part is unclear from a "dogma" perspective what it contains. The high end of acceptable belief is that it contains everything that we refer to as "oral law" today (a position I do not understand or am able to accept) to a lower end (which is more in line with my understanding and belief) that it contains a relatively small number of "halachot l'moshe m'sinai" and a set of rules by which to interpret the written law and develop a full legal system.
8) During the early period, the final authority on the Oral Law was the Sanhedrin of 71 sages located in Yerushalaim. They had the ability and authority to both interpret and legislate laws in accordance with the rule set referred to above.
9) Following the destruction of the Temple, and the exile of the Sanhedrin to Yavneh, the Sanhedrin there decided to end the legislative component of halachic development, since there no longer could be a single source of legislation. From this point on, halachic development would be largely interpretive.
10) The halachic system today is a responsa based system, with strong preference / authority given to the compilation of Halacha laid down in the shulchan aruch and the glosses of the RMA on it.
11) Halacha still develops, but at a pace typically slow compared to general society, and driven by observing the consensus of response on a given topic over a few generations.

OK, this is a first cut for me at the Dogma axis. I think this is something that many people who view themselves as Orthodox would feel comfortable with, especially those who view themselves as "Modern Orthodox". There are probably specific points in 7-11 that others would express differently, and I'd love to see those. I think that some of the differences within the Orthodoxy camp come in the expansion of points 10 and 11, especially in the area of Minhag and how much room there is for a contemporary posek to base an opinion on earlier poskim rather than the most recent generations. But I will leave those details till I see how others, if they so choose, express their Dogma axis.