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...the Old and New Testaments,
consisting of 66 books, is inerrant and the rule of faith for the
Christian, and are sufficient to lead mankind to salvation and
equip us to live for God (2 Timothy 3:15-17), being uniquely authoritative
as the most verifiably apostolic material we have today (1 Corinthians
12:28).
...the Bible is inspired by God
in its entirety, and is without error in the original autographs, a
complete and final written revelation from
God.
...there is only one God, who is
eternal and immutable, and manifests Himself in three distinct Persons;
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
...Jesus of Nazareth is the
promised Messiah, born of a virgin, totally without sin, God in human
flesh, the One Who died on the cross for our sins, was buried, rose again
from the dead on the third day, and ascended to the right hand of the
Father in heaven, where He now intercedes for us who believe in
Him.
...Jesus Christ is going to
return in the clouds for His church before the tribulation that is coming
on the whole earth, and that He will return with His saints and all His
holy angels to the earth at the end of the tribulation, and set up His
kingdom on earth, ruling and reigning forever and
ever.
...all humanity is lost and born
with a sinful nature, and can only be saved by a personal faith in the
death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and not by any human
merit or performance.
...there is a personal
devil, called Satan, who, along with all his angels, called demons or evil
spirits, are destined to spend eternity in hell, and now seek to deceive
the world, defeat the believers, and destroy the work of God, but can be
resisted by believers, who are protected by God and the intercession of
Jesus Christ our Lord.
...heaven is a real place where
the saved will dwell forever, and that hell is a literal place of torment
where unbelievers will suffer forever (Matthew
25:46).
...genuine believers are born
again by the Holy Spirit of God, and are indwelt, baptized into the body
of Christ, the true church, and sealed by the Holy Spirit, and thus,
unable to be separated from the love of Jesus
Christ.
...all believers need to be
filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit to live a godly life and to be
bold in our witness for the Lord. The spiritual unity of all genuine
believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
...the nation of Israel has a
special place in God's plan, and that all of the promises of God to Israel
will be fulfilled.
...interpreting the Bible
like any other literature, meaning that it's to be taken literally where
it gives indication of intending to be taken so, including in areas such
as history and science (John 3:12).
...the Trinity (Isaiah
48:16), one God (Isaiah 43:10) being eternally existent (Psalms 90:2) in
three co-existing (Matthew 3:16-17) Persons.
...original sin, the guilt
for Adam's sin, a guilt that all people inherit (Romans 5:12-21), which
separates them from God (1 Peter 3:18), no matter how good they may seem
to be by fallible human standards (Romans 3:23).
...eternal salvation
(Romans 8:30-39) through faith alone (Romans 4:4-6), based on the finished
work of Christ (Romans 4:25) and His imputed righteousness (Romans 4:6),
not the righteousness of the believer (Philippians 3:9), which is the only
gospel that is of grace (Romans 11:6) and offers eternal life as a gift
(Romans 6:23), so that the believer's focus for eternity will be entirely
on God's grace (Ephesians 2:7), not even partially on his works (Ephesians
2:9).
...salvation that is
through true faith alone, not false faith alone (James 2:14), meaning that
saving faith usually results in works (Ephesians 2:8-10), with rare
exceptions, such as deathbed conversions (1 Corinthians
3:11-15).
...the believer's arrival
in the presence of the Lord just after death (Philippians 1:21-23) or
being raptured (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18), because there's no need for an
intermediary state, nor does one exist (Isaiah 57:1-2), as the believer is
purged by Christ's finished work (Hebrews 1:3), and even imperfect
believers can be changed in preparation for Heaven without anything like
Purgatory (1 Corinthians 15:50-54).
...the Christian church,
which can be defined as a local assembly (1 Corinthians 16:19) or the
spiritual entity consisting of all believers (Ephesians 5:23-32), but not
as a denomination.
...in
the Pre-millennial (Revelation 20:4-7) and the
Pre-tribulational Rapture of the Body of Christ. (Revelation
3:10).
Matthew
2 Corinthians
5:17
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