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We believe in the Scriptures of the Old an New Testaments as verbally inspired of God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe the eternal Son of God was born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true Man. We believe that man was created in the image of God by His direct act and not from previously existing forms of life and that all men are descended from the historical Adam and Eve, first parents of the entire human race; that man sinned and thereby incurred nor only physical death but also that spiritual death which is separation from God, and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and become sinners in thought, words and deed. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. We 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. We believe in “that blessed hope”, the personal and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We believe that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become the children of God, that they are thereafter indwell by the Holy Spirit who makes possible a life of personal holiness and a walk of obedience to the will of God; that all who are born again are “kept by the power of God” and , therefore, are incapable of losing their salvation. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost. We believe that the local church is a body of believers organized for worship, work and fellowship; that the two ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord’s supper, that the local church is an independent and self-governing body responsible alone to Christ who is its Savior and Lord. |
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