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SCRIPTURES - We believe
in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the entire Bible, both Old and
New Testaments. We further accept the Textus
Receptus manuscripts from which
came the King James Bible and accept
only the King James Bible as the divinely preserved Word of God in the
English language. |
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TRINITY - We believe that
God is a Person, eternally existing as a Trinity, manifesting
Himself in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit. We further believe that these three are one God, but
separate in personality and work. |
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JESUS CHRIST - We believe
that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, eternally
existing yet born of a virgin. Being God, He lived a sinless life
whose death on the cross was both sufficient and
substitutionary for the sins of the
whole world. He is both true God and true man, the Savior of the
world. |
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CREATION - We believe in
the creation of the universe and all things by a direct act of God,
apart from any so-called evolutionary processes. |
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SIN - We believe that man
was created in the image of God but fell through sin, bringing upon
mankind both physical and spiritual death. Mankind in now totally
depraved, incapable of personal salvation and good works before God
and therefore in need of a Savior. |
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SALVATION - We believe
that man is lost and must be born again by the Holy Spirit to enter
heaven. Man is justified by faith alone and is accounted righteous
before God ONLY through the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Salvation is by grace through faith, minus nothing and plus nothing. |
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CHURCH - We believe that
Jesus Christ founded the local church and it consists of a group of
believers baptized by immersion who have assembled together for the
purpose of edification, exhortation and evangelism as commanded by
Christ in his Great Commission. |
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SECOND COMING - We believe that the Lord
Jesus Christ is coming again in the air at any moment to rapture his
church and to reward its service. The unbelievers will be left
behind and will go through a seven year period called the
Tribulation, after which Christ will return visibly to the earth to
set up His Kingdom of one thousand years of perfect government and
righteous rule. After this, the unbelievers of all ages will stand
at the Great White Throne to be judged and cast into the Lake of
Fire, separated from God forever, while
the believers have their works judged at the Judgment Seat of Christ
and will spend eternity in the fullness of joy in Heaven with the
Lord. |
