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We
believe
- That
the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired
by God, and inerrant in the original writings, are the Word of God,
and the final authority in faith and conduct.
- In
one God, the creator of man and all things, eternally existing in
three Persons in a three fold relationship that of Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit.
- That
Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary,
and is God incarnate, the God-Man.
- That
man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred
not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation
from God; that Adam's sin is imputed to the whole race of mankind;
that all human beings are born with a sinful nature; and that when
they reach the state of moral responsibility becomes sinners before
God in thought, word, and deed.
- The
Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as
a substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe on Him are freely
justified before God and stand before Him accepted in the character
and merit of Jesus Christ.
- In
the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, in His ascension into heaven,
and that in His present glorified body He is the Head of the Church,
the Lord of the individual believer, the High Priest over the house
of God, and the Advocate in the family of God.
- In
the personal, imminent, pretribulational, and premillenial second
coming of the Christ; first to receive His own to Himself, and later
to set up His earthly kingdom and to reign over redeemed Israel and
all nations; that is, to bring peace and blessing into the whole world.
- All
who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour are born again
of the Holy Spirit and Word of God, receive the Holy Spirit and a
new nature, and also are baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body
of Christ.
- All
who are born again should receive water baptism by immersion in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and Worship
the Lord in Spirit and in Truth.
- In
the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; the everlasting
blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the unsaved.
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