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We believe ......
In the divine inspiration of all 66
books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given,
guaranteeing their total trustworthiness and absolute
authority for faith and life;
In one God, eternally existing in
three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
In the deity of Christ, in His
virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His
substitutionary and atoning death through His shed blood, in
His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand
of the Father, and in His personal and imminent return in
power and glory;
That all people are sinners by
nature, that they cannot save themselves, and that salvation
is possible only through the regenerating power of the Holy
Spirit;
That salvation is a free gift of God
entirely apart from works and is possessed by all those who
have, by faith, received the Lord Jesus Christ as their
personal Savior;
In the present ministry of the Holy
Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live
a godly life and to overcome the attacks of Satan;
In the bodily resurrection of both
the righteous and the unrighteous, the everlasting
blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of
the lost; and
In the spiritual unity of believers
in our Lord Jesus Christ, who are thus members of His Body,
the Church.
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