Doctrine

The Following is Affirmed by the author of this site.

The Bible, every word in the original writings, is inspired of God and without error (Matt. 5:18; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:21). Therefore, the Bible is the final standard of faith and practice for the believer in Jesus Christ and for His church.

God exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one God (Gen. 1:1, 26; Deut. 6:4; Matt. 28:19-20; John 4:24, 10:30; 2 Cor. 13:14).

Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, the second person of the Godhead (see above). He has always existed (John 1:1). He became incarnate (John 1:1-14) by means of His virgin birth (Matt. 1:23-25). In becoming a man he did not cease to be at the same time God. He lived a sinless life (Heb. 4;15). He died as a substitute for the sins of men (Rom. 3:23-25). He rose from the grave triumphing over death (Acts 2:24-27). He ascended to the right hand of the Father (Acts 1:9-11). He will one day bodily return to earth (Tit. 2:13).

The Holy Spirit is the Third person of the Godhead. He regenerates, indwells, baptizes, and seals all believers in Christ and fills those who are yielded to Him (Matt. 28:19; John 3;3-7; Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor 2:12, 6:19, 12:13; Eph. 4;30; Titus 3:5).

Angels are spirit beings, originally created by God that exhist as both unfallen and fallen (demons) including Satan (Psa. 148:2-5; Matt. 25:41; Eph. 6:11-12; Col. 1:16; 1 Tim. 5:21; Jude 6; Rev. 12:9).

Man was created in the image of God, sinned in Adam, and is now a sinner by nature and by choice (Gen. 1:26-27, 3:1-6; Rom. 3:10-18, 5:12-14).

Condemned sinners are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, apart from human effort, good works, or religious ceremonies (Acts 4:12, 16:31; Eph. 2:8-9).

The church is the spiritual body of which Christ is the head. There is a twofold aspect to the church, the universal church and the local church (Eph. 1:22-23; Phil. 2; 1 Thess. 1:1; Rev. 2:3). The ordinaces of the local church are two: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Scriptural baptism based on the meaning of the word and the symbolism involved is by immersion in water (Matt. 28:19; Acts 2:41). The Lord’s Supper is memorial in nature (Lk. 22:14-20; 1 Cor. 11:11-15).

There is coming a future resurrection of every human body either to be rewarded and to exist eternally in heaven or to be judged by God and condemned eternally to hell (Jn. 5:25-29, 11:25-26; 1 Cor. 15:51-57; 2 Cor. 5:10; Rev. 20:11-15).

Jesus Christ will one day personally return to earth. His coming will involve two distinguishable events: the imminent rapture or catching away of the church (1 Thess. 4:13-18) and his visible return to earth to establish his millennial (1,000 year) kingdom (Rev. 19:11-16, 20:1-6).