I.
I believe that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God, His revelation to man, inerrant in the original writings; and that it is therefore the supreme and final authority in all matters of doctrine, faith and life. (II Tim 3:15-17; II Peter 1:19-21; Hebrews 1:1; Psa 119:160).
II.
I believe in the Holy Trinity (God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) [Deut 6:4; Gen 1:26; Matt 3:16, 17; John 1:1, 2; 10:30; 15:26]: that Jesus Christ is eternal, was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, took our judgment for sin when He died on the cross and shed His precious blood, was raised from the dead on the third day, appeared to His disciples after the resurrection, ascended back to Heaven, and is coming again for His saints in the event known as the rapture [Jn 3:16; 10:30; Matt 1:18-25; Gal 4:4,5; Phil 2: 6-10; Heb 4:15; 10:10; II Cor 5: 19, 21; I Pet 3:18]; that the Holy Spirit is the blessed third person of the Trinity, and that He convicts the sinner, saves him, and indwells the believer [Jn 14:16-18; 16:7-13; I Cor 12:13; Eph 1:13; 4:30].
III.
I believe in the existence of a real devil who was created as an angel of light, and through his rebellion against God, was cast out of Heaven with those angels who followed him in the rebellion, and now those angels serve him as demon spirits [Isa 14:12-15; Ezek 28:12-19; II Cor 4:3, 4; I Pet 5:8; Rev 12:9, 10; Luke 10:18].
IV.
I believe the Genesis account of creation in which man was created spontaneously by God and was without sin in the creation; that man, by choice, rebelled against God, and because of this sin, became totally depraved and incurred the penalty of death through his sin [Gen 1:1, 26, 27; Rom 5:12,-19; Psa 51:5; Gal 3:11; Rom 3:10, 11, 23; II Cor 5:14, 15, 19]; that man can only be rightly related to God through the experience of the New Birth, and that this birth is the salvation experience and can only be experienced by repentance of sin and personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; that the believer is eternally saved and can never be lost [Jn 1:12; 3:3-5; Gal 3:26; I Jn 3:1, 2; Jn 10:27-29; Rom 5:8-11; 8:35-39; 11:29; Heb 7:25; Jn 5:9-13; Jude 1].
V.
I believe in the prominence of the visible church; that the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is His visible organism to carry out the Great Commission in this age, and that one cannot be true to the scriptures and disassociate himself from the ministry of the local gospel preaching church [Acts 2:41-47; 14:27; Eph 4:11-16; 5:26, 27; I Tim 3:1-15; Titus 1:5-11].
VI.
I believe in the rapture of the church when Christ will take away His saints to be with Him and will return to earth with the saints to set up His earthly kingdom for 1,000 years, and that the kingdom will be followed by eternity future [I Thess 4:13-17; Titus 2:12, 13;
I Cor 15:51-57; Rev 19:11-16; 20:1-9; Phil 2:9-11].
VII.
I believe in the conscious eternal blessedness of the saved [I Thess 4:14-17; Rev 21, 22; Jn 14:1-6; Phil 1:21-23; Jn 11:25, 26], and the conscious eternal punishment of the wicked in hell and the lake of fire [Rev 20:11-15; 21:8; Mark 9:48; Rom 6:23; Matt 25:30, 41; Luke 13:28]. |