What do I believe about God – Basics

1. I believe that the Old and New Testament Scriptures are verbally inspired of God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are the supreme and final authority in faith and life. I believe that they represent the full truth of God, and that they are not to be added to.

2. I believe in one God, eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, manifesting Himself in Three Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; one in nature, equal in attributes, power, and glory.

3. I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and the He is true God and true man.

4. I believe that God created man in His own image and in a state of innocency, but man willfully transgressed God’s law and lost communion with God, becoming dead in sin, corrupt in nature, and incapable of pleasing God, in any way.

5. I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and rose again for our justification; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood and are saved by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit and works.This being totally and completely the sovereign act of God on the behalf of those whom He chose before the foundation of the world was created.

6. I believe that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God and thereby become the children of God, possessing eternal life.

7. I believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.

8. I believe in the personal and visible premillennial return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris to reign upon the earth.

9. I believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead: the saved to a life of eternal glory and bliss in Heaven with God; the unsaved to eternal judgment of conscious suffering and woe in the lake of fire.

10. I believe in separation from all worldly practice, in whole-hearted devotion to the cause of Christ, in a high standard of Christian conduct; since such separation, devotion, and standard is the only scriptural basis for a useful Christian life. For this reason I oppose all practices which hinder Christian growth and detract from Christian influence.

11. I believe it is necessary to hold sound and aggressive scriptural convictions of separation from liberalism, apostasy, and compromise with unbelief.