- and accept the entire Bible as the infallible Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit. The only perfect order of our faith and living; to which nothing can be added or taken away, which is the power of God unto salvation to believers.
I Peter 1:21; II Timothy 3:16-17; Romans 1:16
- there is only One living and true God, eternal, with unlimited power, creator of all things; and in the one God are three distinct persons; The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4:6; Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; I John 5:7
- that the Son of God is the Word, made flesh, who took the form of a man conceived by the Holy Spirit through the virgin Mary, and so is truly God and truly man.
John 1:14; Luke 1:27-35
- that the first institution God created was marriage and family. God created marriage to between one man and one woman. Marriage is God’s design.
Genesis 2:20-25; Matthew 19:4-6
- in the existence of a personal devil, who with all evil spirits, will be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire.
Matthew 25:41
- that regeneration or the new birth is received only through faith in Jesus Christ via the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 3:24 – 25; I Corinthians 1:30; II Corinthians 5:17
- in water baptism by single immersion, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, according to Christ’s commission.
Matthew 28:18 – 19
- in the baptism in the Holy Spirit as an experience received subsequent to salvation, with the sign of speaking in tongues as the Holy Spirit gives utterance.
Acts 2:4, 10, 45-47 and Acts 19:6
- in the continuation of spiritual gifts. The Holy Spirit gifts the church with varying gifts for the edification of the Lord’s church.
I Corinthians 12:1-31; 14:1-33a
- in the the fellowship of communion when Christ, then, having taken bread, “. . . He gave thanks, and broke it, and gave unto them, saying ‘this is my body, which is given for you: This do in remembrance of me.’ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.’”
Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 11:24
- it is necessary to abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled and from sexual immorality as decreed by the Holy Spirit in the general assembly held at Jerusalem.
Acts 15:28-29; 16:4, 21:25
- that Jesus Christ himself bore all our infirmities.
James 5:14; Matthew 8:17
- that the Lord Jesus Christ will return to gather His church “Shall descend from heaven with a great shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain faithful shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
I Thessalonians 4:16 – 17; Revelation 20:6
- there shall be a bodily resurrection of all dead, just and unjust. And the unjust shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal.
I Corinthians 3:10-15; 15:1-58; Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 25:46