- I believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons -- God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Spirit.
- I believe that God created everything out of nothing for His own purpose.
- I believe that the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are inerrant and verbally inspired of God.
- I believe that the Church has no further need for new revelation from God as the scriptures are the complete revelation from God to the Body of Christ.
- I believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of the virgin Mary, and that He is both God and man.
- I believe that man was created in the image of God in a state of innocence, but when he sinned the human race incurred both physical and spiritual death; thus man lost communion with God and incapable of remedying his sinful condition by his own works.
- I believe that Jesus Christ lived a sinless and perfect life that fully pleased His Father; that He died for our sins on the cross, bearing the judgment required by God's justice against sin.
- I believe that Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead; and that He ascended to the right hand of the Father.
- I believe that those who receive Jesus Christ as Savior are saved by grace through faith apart from human merit and works.
- I believe that those who receive Jesus Christ by faith are eternally secure; possessing everlasting life.
- I believe that the Holy Spirit baptizes all true believers into the true Church, which is His Body; that He indwells them eternally; giving spiritual gifts to them for His service.
- I believe that, although not essential to salvation, we should be baptized by immersion in water and observe the Lord's Supper as means of testimony for the Church.
- I believe that at death, the righteous pass instantly into Christ's presence; to remain their until the resurrection of the Body of Christ's return for the Church. I also believe that at death, the unrighteous pass instantly into Hell, where they are to remain until they are brought before Christ during the final judgment and cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity.
- I believe in the bodily resurrection of the righteous dead during Christ's return for the Church; when the souls and spirits of those who have died will be united again with their bodies; now immortal. I also believe that true Christians who are alive during that time, their bodies will likewise be transformed into immortality, and will be caught up together with them to meet Jesus Christ.
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"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that all who believe in Him will not be lost but have eternal life." (John) 3:16
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