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We believe in the Holy Bible, both the Old
and the New Testaments, as verbally inspired of God, and inerrant in
the
original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in
the faith
and life of every believer.
We believe in One God,
eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son
and Holy Spirit.
We believe that man was
created in the image of God; that he sinned, and
thereby incurred, not only physical death, but also that spiritual
death which
is the separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a
sinful
nature.
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 basis of His shed blood.
We believe that only those
who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ as
Savior, are miraculously born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby,
without
benefit of any human merit, religious rite or ceremony, partake of the
Divine
life and nature, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit forever.
We believe that at the
time of the New Birth, the believer receives the
Holy Spirit and by Him is baptized into the Body of Christ; is forever
indwelt
by the Holy Spirit as Guide and Comforter; and if yielded to Him is
empowered
for service. We believe in the Unity of the believers.
We believe in the Bodily
Resurrection of our Crucified Lord, in His
Bodily Ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there as High
Priest and
Advocate for us.
We believe in "that
Blessed Hope," the personal bodily and
imminent Return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
We believe in the bodily
resurrection of both the Saved and the Lost; the
everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of
the
lost.
We believe that Satan is a
personal being; that he is the Enemy of God,
the "Father of Lies," the Great deceiver of mankind and the Instigator
of all false systems of religion, and that, with him, all persistent
followers
of such will find their end in the Lake of Fire.
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STATEMENT OF FAITH