THE HOLY SCRIPTURES -
The Old and New Testaments are the verbally inspired Word of God,
the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original writings,
infallible, and God-breathed.
THE GODHEAD -
One Triune God exists eternally in three persons:
the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God in His three persons is co-eternal in
being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and has the same
attributes and perfections.
THE PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST
- The Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God,
became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful
men. The Lord Jesus Christ accomplished mankind’s redemption through His death
on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and
man’s justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the
dead. The Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and is now exalted at the right
hand of God, and as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative,
Intercessor, and Advocate.
THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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The Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and
of judgment and is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all
believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of
redemption. He is the Divine Teacher who guides believers into all truth, and He
fills the unsaved with the Spirit.
THE TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF MAN
- Man was created in the image and likeness of God,
but that through Adam man inherited a sinful nature and became separated from
God; man is totally depraved and is of himself utterly unable to be saved from
his lost condition.
SALVATION -
Salvation is the gift of God brought to man and
received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was
shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of man’s sins.
THE PERSONALITY OF SATAN
- Satan is a person, the author of sin and the
cause of the fall; he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; and he
shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire.
DISPENSATIONS
- The Bible may be rightly divided into seven
dispensations of time in order to interpret it. Each dispensation is associated
with a specific covenant from God.
THE RAPTURE AND SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
- The personal, pre-tribulation and pre-millennial
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones is imminent; upon His
subsequent return to earth with His saints, He will establish His Millennial
Kingdom.
THE ETERNAL STATE
- All men will experience bodily resurrection, the
saved to eternal life, the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. At
the moment of death, the souls of the redeemed are absent from the body and
present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first
resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever
with the Lord. The souls of the unbelievers remain after death, in conscious
misery until the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited they
shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake
of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment.