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1. SCRIPTURES—We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the entire
Bible, both the Old and New Testaments. We further accept the Mazoretic
and Textus Receptus manuscripts from which came the King James Bible
and accept the King James Bible as the divinely preserved and perfect Word
of God for the English-speaking world.
2. 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.
3. 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, making His death on the Cross both sufficient and substitutionary for
the sins of the whole world. After making atonement for the sins of the
world with His own blood, He ascended into Heaven with a glorified body
where He is seated at the right hand of the Father as Head of the Church,
making intercession for the saints as our High Priest.
4. SALVATION—We believe that man is lost in sin and must be born again to
enter the Kingdom of God. We believe that for lost and sinful men,
regeneration by the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential. The salvation of a
man’s soul is by grace alone through personal faith in the finished work of
Christ on the Cross.
5. CHURCH—We believe that the local church is a group of believers baptized
in water; assembled together for edification, exhortation, and evangelism as
commanded by Christ in the Great Commission; and preaching the gospel
to every creature. We believe God’s program today is centered in the local
New Testament church, which is independent and missionary minded.
6. SECOND COMING—We believe the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is coming
again in the air at any moment to rapture His Church and to reward their
service. The unbelievers left behind will go through a seven-year period
called the Tribulation, after which Christ shall return visibly to the earth
with His saints to set up His Kingdom of one thousand years of righteous
rule. After this, the unbelievers of all the ages will stand at the Great White
Throne to be judged and cast into the Lake of Fire, separated from God
forever, while believers will spend eternity in the fullness of joy in Heaven
with the Lord.
7. POSITIONAL STATEMENT—We hold to the historic Baptist position of
Biblical separation. We are Biblical Fundamentalists and repudiate the
liberal and unscriptural religious trends of the day: Ecumenicalism,
Neo-Orthodoxy, New Evangelicalism, and the excesses of the Charismatic
Movement.
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