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We believe:
- In the verbal, plenary inspiration of the original
manuscripts of both the
Old and New Testaments and that they together constitute the inerrant
and
infallible Word of God, and are the final authority in faith, in
practice, and
in life.
- In the Trinity of the Godhead; one God, eternally existent
in Three Equal
Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; who created the universe and
all that
is by direct creation and not evolution.
- In the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His being both true
God and true
man; in His virgin birth, begotten in miraculous manner by the Holy
Spirit; in
His sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, and
ascension
into heaven; in His personal, imminent, pre-tribulational and
pre-millennial
coming again for His redeemed ones and in His Millennial Kingdom.
- In the personality of the Holy Spirit, by whom believers
are called,
regenerated, baptized into Christ, indwelt, endued, guided, taught,
witnessed
to, sanctified, aided and filled for service.
- In the fall, total depravity and guilt of the race of Adam,
and because of
this, man is sinful by nature and choice, must individually and
personally
repent of sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved, such
faith and
repentance being the only requisites of salvation; and that it is only
the
shed blood of Jesus Christ that provides such an atonement for sin.
That every
saved person possesses two natures, with the power of the indwelling
Holy
Spirit, and that all claims to the eradication of the old nature in
this life
are unscriptural.
- In the local church as being a company of regenerated
baptized (immersed)
believers, independent and self-governing, with voluntary fellowship
and
cooperation among churches of like faith; in the responsibility of
every local
church to observe the two ordinances which the Lord has committed to
us,
namely:
- Baptism, by immersion, as the Word indicates, of the
believer in water as
the Lord commands;
- The Lord's Supper, as a memorial of the death of Christ
until He comes;
and to edify itself and evangelize the world.
- In the existence of Satan as a personality, angels and
demons.
- In the complete separation of Church and State; in the
separation of the
local church from the combined meetings with all organizations or
groups who
deny the inspiration of the scriptures, the Deity of Christ, in the
separation
of the believer unto God, and from the world and ecclesiastical
apostasy.
- That it is a privilege of believers to rejoice in the
assurance of their
salvation through the testimony of their salvation through the
testimony of
God's Word; which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian
liberty as an
occasion to the flesh.
- In the dispensational view of Bible interpretation, but
reject the extreme
teaching of "hyper-dispensationalism", such as that teaching which
opposes
either the Lord's table or water baptism as a scriptural means of
testimony
for the church in this age.
- In the bodily resurrection, immortality, and
pre-tribulational rapture of
all believers at Christ's imminent coming; in the bodily resurrection
and
judgment of all unbelievers after the millennial reign of Christ; in
the
eternal life and blessedness of all believers and the eternal existence
and
punishment (and not annihilation) of all unbelievers.
- We believe in the future restoration of the Jews in their
own land, also
in the setting up of a Kingdom of Righteousness, on earth, by our Lord
Jesus
Christ, who shall then be King of Kings and Lord of Lords.