STATEMENT OF FAITH I.
The Bible, cons isting of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a supernatura lly given revelation from God Himself, concerning Himself, Hi, being, nature, character, will and purposes; and concerning man, his nature, need, duty and destiny. The Script ures of the Old and New Testaments are without error or mis statement in their moral and! spiritual teachings and record of historical facts. They are without error or defect of any kind. II. There is one God, eternally ex ist ing and manifesting Himself to us in three Persons Father, Son and Holy Spirit. nr. The Lord Jesus was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin-Mary, a lineal descendant of David. He lived and taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs, exactly as is recorded in the four Gospels . He was put to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate. God raised from the dead the body that had been nailed to the cross . The Lord Jesus after His crucifixion showed Himself a live to His disciples, appearing unto them by the space of forty days. After this the Lord Jesus ascended into Heaven, and' the Father ca.used Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and autho rity and power and dominion and every name that is named, not on ly in this world, but a lso in that which is to come, and put all things in subj ection under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over a ll things to the Church. IV. The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation, existed in the form of God, and of His own choice laid aside His divine glory and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. In His pre-existent state, He was with God and was God. He is a divine person, possessed of all the attributes of Deity, and shou ld be worshipped as Goel by angels and men. "In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bod ily." A ll the words that He spoke during His earthly li fe were the words of God. There is absolutely no error of any kind in them, and by the words of Jesus Christ the words of all other teachers must be tested. V. The Lord J es us became in every r espect a r ea l man, possessed of all the essen tial characteristics of human nature. VI. By His death upon the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement for sin, by which the wrath of Goel against sinners is appeased, and a ground furnished upon which Goel can deal in mercy with sinners. He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place. He Who Himself was abso lutely without sin, was made to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of Goel in Him. The Lord Jesus is corning again to this earth, personally, bodily, and v isibly. The return of our Lord is the blessed hope of the believer, and in it God's purposes of grace toward mankind wi ll find their consummation. · VII. The Holy Spirit 1s a person and is possessed of a ll the distinctively divine attributes. He is God. VIII. Man was created in the image of Goel, after His likeness, but the whole human race fe ll in the fall of the iirst Adam. A ll men, until they accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour, are lost, darkened in their understanding, a li enated from the lif e of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened in heart, morally and spiritually . dead through their trespasses and sins . They cannot see, nor enter the Kingdom of God until they are born again of the Holy Spirit. 6
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