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Articles of Faith
"The Doctrine and
Administration of The Church"
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THE SCRIPTURES: We
believe in the authority and sufficiency of the Holy Bible,
consisting
of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, as originally
written; that it was verbally
and plenarily inspired and is the product of Spirit-controlled men,
and therefore is infallible and
inerrant
in all matters of which it speaks.
We believe the Bible to be the true center of Christian unity and the
supreme standard by which
all human
conduct, creed and opinions shall be tried (2 Timothy
3:16, 17; 2 Peter 1:19-21).
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THE
TRUE GOD: We believe there is one and only one living
and true God, an infinite Spirit,
the Maker and supreme Ruler of Heaven and earth; inexpressibly glorious
in holiness, and worthy
of all possible
honor, confidence and love; that in the unity of the
Godhead there are three Persons,
the Father, the Son and the
Holy Spirit, equal in every divine perfection
and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption (Exodus 20:2,3; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Revelation. 4:11).
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THE
HOLY SPIRIT: We believe that the Holy Spirit is a
divine Person, equal with God the
Father and God
the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in
the creation; that in His
relation to the unbelieving world
He restrains the Evil One until God's
purpose is fulfilled; that
He bears witness to the truth of the gospel in
preaching and testimony;
that he is the Agent in
the new birth; that He deals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies
and helps the believer (John 14:16, 17; Matthew 28:19; Hebrews 9:14; John 14:26;
Luke 1:35;
Genesis 1:1-3;
John 16:8-11; Acts 5130-32; John 3:5, 6; Ephesians 1:13, 14; Mark 1:8;
John 1:33;
Acts 11:16;
Luke 24:49; Romans 8:14, 16, 26, 27).
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THE
DEVIL, OR SATAN: We believe in the reality and personality
of Satan, the Devil; and
that he was created
by God as an angel but through pride and rebellion
became the enemy of his
Creator; that he became the unholy
god of
this age and the ruler of all
the powers of darkness or
darkness and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice
in the
lake of fire (Matthew 4:1-11; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation
20:10).
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CREATION: We
believe the Biblical account of the creation of the physical
universe, angels and
man; that this
account is neither allegory nor myth, but a literal, historical
account of the direct, immediate creative acts of God without any evolutionary
process; that man was created by a direct
work of God and not from previously existing forms of life;
and that
all men are descended from the historical Adam and Eve, first parents
of the entire human race
(Genesis 1:1, 2; Colossians 1:16,17; John 1:3).
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THE
FALL OF MAN: We believe that man was created in innocence
(in the image and likeness
of God) under
the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression Adam
fell from his sinless
and happy state, and all men
sinned in him, in consequence of which all
men are totally depraved,
are partakers of Adam's fallen nature, and are sinners by nature and
by conduct, and therefore are
under just condemnation without defense or excuse
(Genesis 3:1- 6; Romans 3:10-19; 5:12, 19; 1:18, 32).
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THE
VIRGIN BIRTH: We believe that Jesus was begotten
of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous
manner, born of
Mary,
a virgin, as no other man was ever born or can
be born of woman, and that
He is both the Son of God and
God the Son (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:35; John 1:14).
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SALVATION: We
believe that the salvation of sinners is divinely initiated and
wholly of grace
through
the mediatorial offices of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who,
by the appointment of the
Father, voluntarily
took upon Himself our nature, yet without sin, and
honored the divine law
by His personal obedience, thus
qualifying Himself to be our Savior;
that by the shedding of his
blood in His death he fully satisfied the just
demands of a holy and
righteous God regarding sin;
that His sacrifice consisted not in setting us an example by
His death
as a martyr, but was
voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner's place, the just dying
for the
unjust, Christ the
Lord bearing our sins in His own body on the tree; that having risen
from the dead He is now
enthroned in Heaven, and uniting in His wonderful Person the tenderest
sympathies with divine perfection,
He is in every way qualified to be
a suitable, a compassionate and an all-sufficient
Savior.
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Article of Faith Part
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