WE SUPPORT:
- I BELIEVE in one God, eternally existent
in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - and that He created
everything out of nothing for His own pleasure and purpose.
- I BELIEVE the Scriptures of the Old and
New Testaments to be the verbally inspired Word of God, inerrant
and infallible in the original manuscripts, and the supreme and
final authority in matters of faith and life, interpreted by the
Holy Spirit to each individual believer.
- I BELIEVE that man was created in the
image of God, and when he sinned the race incurred both physical
and spiritual death; thus man became alienated from God and
incapable of remedying his sinful condition by his own
means.
- I BELIEVE that the Lord Jesus Christ was
begotten of the Father through the Holy Spirit, was born of the
Virgin Mary, and is true man without ceasing to be God.
- I BELIEVE that the Lord Jesus Christ lived
a sinless and perfect life that fully pleased His Father; that He
died for our sins on the cross, bearing the judgment demanded by
God's Holy Justice against sin, thus making it possible for God to
remain Just and at the same time to justify those who believe in
Jesus.
- I BELIEVE that the Lord Jesus Christ rose
bodily from the dead, never to die again, and is ascended to the
right hand of the Father, where He intercedes as High Priest and
Advocate on behalf of all who believe in Him.
- I BELIEVE that those who, by faith alone
and through no merit of their own, receive the Lord Jesus Christ
as Saviour are miraculously born again of the Holy Spirit and
become, as children of God, partakers of His divine nature and of
eternal life.
- I BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit baptizes
all true believers into the one true Church, His Body; that He
indwells them eternally, bestows spiritual gifts upon them, and
empowers them for service and holy living.
- I BELIEVE that the Scriptures have given
us everything pertaining to life and godliness, including not only
salvation from the penalty of sin but instruction in righteousness
for present sanctification and victorious living to the glory of
God.
- I BELIEVE that two ordinances, neither of
which is essential to salvation, are to be observed in obedience
to our Lord by all believers until Christ's return: baptism and
the Lord's Supper.
- I BELIEVE that at death the souls of the
redeemed pass immediately into Christ's presence, to remain there
until the resurrection of the body at Christ's return for the
Church. I also believe that at death the souls
of the lost go to Hell, where they remain until they are brought
before Christ at the Great White Throne to be
judged according to their works and cast into the
Lake of Fire,
there to remain eternally.
- I BELIEVE in the bodily resurrection of
the redeemed at the premillennial return of Christ for His Church,
when the souls and spirits of those who have died will be reunited
with their bodies, now immortal, and that believers who are alive
at that time, their bodies likewise transformed into immortality,
will be caught up together with them to meet Christ in the air,
ever to be with Him.
- I BELIEVE in the personal, bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ to rescue Israel at Armageddon and to establish His millennial kingdom, reigning over this earth from His father David's throne in Jerusalem and that His redeemed will reign with Him in resurrected bodies for 1,000 years.
