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The Scripture
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We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are inerrant
and verbally inspired in the original manuscripts by the living God, were
written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that they are God’s
complete and final word of truth and are the supreme, final, and only
infallible authority for doctrine, faith, and conduct.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
2 Peter 1:21
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The God-head
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We believe in one God, eternally coexistent as God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit; that each person of the Godhead is separate and
distinct with the same attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence
and is perfect in holiness and righteousness.
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The Person of Jesus Christ
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We believe in the absolute, essential, and eternal Deity of Christ, the
Son of God, that Jesus as the Son of man was begotten by the Holy
Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, that He is true God and true man, the
Lord Jesus Christ, Who was and is the only sinless human being and the
only One who could be the Savior of mankind.
Hebrews 1:8
John 1:14
Luke 1:35
Matthew 1:21
1 Timothy 2:5
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The Work of Jesus Christ
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We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ made one final and complete sacrifice
for the sins of the world, that in His body on the cross He was man’s
representative and substitutionary sacrifice for sin, and through His death
and shed blood is God’s only means of redemption from sin.
Colossians 1:20-22
2 Corinthians 5:21
Hebrews 9:22
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The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
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We belive in the literal bodily resurrection of the crucified body of Jesus
Christ. His physical bodily ascension into heaven wher, since His
ascension, He sits as the head of all things to the church, and, through the
Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ is the only Mediator between God and man.
1 Timothy 2:5 Romans 1:4 1 Corinthians 15:14-17
Ephesians 4:7-10
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The Holy Spirit
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The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Godhead, Who convicts the world
of sin, righteousness and judgment. At conversion, He regenerates, indwells,
seals and baptizes the believer into the Body of Christ. Subsequently, by
the Scriptures, He conforms the believer increasingly to the image of Christ
and empowers him for spiritual service.
1 Corinthians 12:13
Ephesians 1:13
John 15:26
John 16:8-11
2 Corinthians 3:18
1 Corinthians 2:10-12
Romans 8:9
Acts 1:8
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Man
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We believe that man was created by God in God’s image as recorded in
Genesis, that Adam sinned entirely of his own volition and responsibility,
that Adam as the progenitor of the entire human race transmitted sin and
death on and into the whole of humanity, and all are born sinners with a
corrupt and sinful nature and are spiritually dead.
Genesis 1:26
Romans 5:12
Romans 3:23
Psalm 51:5
Romans 3:9
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Salvation
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We believe that, because of the universal result of sin, all responsible
human beings are dead in trespasses and sins, are lost and condemned, and
this position and condition is changed only for those who trust Christ as
Savior and are thus saved from sin and death. We believe that salvation from
sin and eternal condemnation is only by grace through faith in the finished
work of Jesus Christ by His death and resurrection, that all those born of
water and of the Spirit have eternal life and are eternally secure, that
salvation is not by works but that good works and holy living are the
results of salvation.
John 3:5-7
Galatians 2:16
Ephesians 2:1
Romans 3:24
John 10:28,29
Ephesians 2:8,9
We believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is both visible and invisible.
Invisibly, it is the Body of Christ, of which Christ is the Head and of
which every regenerated person is a member. Visibly, it is a local assembly
of redeemed persons.
Ephesians 1:22,23
1 Corinthians 12:13
Philippians 1:1
We believe that the corporate church on earth is God’s witness and
testimony to proclaim the Gospel to all the world, that the Lord’s
Supper (communion) and baptism by immersion in water are divine
institutions given by the Word of God to be maintained in this age
Matthew 28:18-20
Acts 2:41
1 Corinthians 11:25,26
Acts 8:36-38
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Satan
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We believe that Satan is a personal, powerful and reigning dignitary,
that he is the prince of power of all evil, the spirit that works in the
hearts and minds of all the unsaved and is the adversary of God and the
saved, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire eternally.
1 Peter 5:8
Ephesians 2:2
Revelation 20:10
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The Future
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We believe in the pre-tribulation, pre-millennial return of the Lord Jesus
Christ in the air at any moment to rapture the bodies of all believers, and
so shall we ever be with the Lord.
2 Timothy 4:1
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
Daniel 9:25-27
All the unsaved will be resurrected, judged and cast into the Lake of
Fire forever, where they will be conscious and suffer forever.
Revelation 20:12-15
Luke 16:24,25
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