1.
VERBAL INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURES - We believe in the infallible
inspired Word of God (1) to be the verbally inspired (2) Word of God,
the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original
writings, infallible, and God-breathed. We accept the Textus Receptus
manuscript as the foundational material from which we derive the King
James 1611. The Old and New Testament Scriptures were written by human
authors divinely inspired and edited by the Holy Spirit, preserved,
unbroken and passed down to us today.
2.
GENESIS ACCOUNT OF CREATION - We believe the Genesis account of
creation, and that what you believe about your origin will determine
your philosophy of life. We believe creation was a direct act of God,
literal days, instantaneous, and miraculous. We believe man was created
in the image of God and all reproduction was "after their kind." Genesis
1:1; Job 26:7; Psalm 33:6,9; John 1:3; Colossians 1:1 7
3.
TRINITY - We believe God is a person, eternally existing. One true God,
but in the unity of the Godhead. There are three eternal and coequal
persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, the same
substance but distinct in subsistence. One Godhead made up of three
persons who are the same in attributes, power, characteristics and
desires. Romans 1:7; Hebrews 1:8; Acts 5:1-3; Matthew 28:19; I
Corinthians 8:6
4.
DEITY - We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God because of His
character, His miracles, His influence, His power to forgive sins and to
set people free from Satan and because He claimed to be and died making
this claim, arose victorious over death. Mark 12:6; John 5:22,23;
Matthew 26:63,66; John 14:9; John 1:1; Hebrew' 1:8, John 20:28; Romans
9:5; I John 5:15
5.
VIRGIN BIRTH - We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy
Ghost and in miraculous manner; born of Mary, a virgin, as no other
person was ever born or can ever be born of woman, and He is both the
Son of God and God the Son. Matthew 1:20; Luke 1:30-35; Isaiah 7:14
6.
SUBSTITUTIONARY DEATH OF CHRIST - Jesus took the saved sinner's place,
bore his sins, met the penalty, through a substitutionary death for all
men. Jesus satisfied the law, becoming our accepted substitute; His
righteousness, His right-doing, is imputed to us by faith and so we
through Him have kept the law. The blood of Christ cleanses, instead of
merely covering the sins of man. Isaiah 53:5; Acts 20:28 ; II
Corinthians 5:21; Hebrew 9:28; I Peter 3:18; Matthew 26:28; Acts 20:28
7.
SALVATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH - The sacrifice made by Jesus is the
only basis of salvation, the only means of reconciliation, and the only
ground of justification. We believe that no man cometh to God except
through Jesus Christ. We hold
and believe many important truth, but the most important thing to every
individual is the personal salvation of his own soul. God's order is:
first salvation, then works. Acts 4:12; I Thessalonians 5:9; Hebrews
5:9; John 12:46; John 20:31; Romans 10:9; Ephesians 2:9,10; Titus 3:5-8
8.
HEAVEN AND HELL - We believe that Heaven and Hell are real literal
physical places. Heaven is a place of indescribable beauty and glory,
just as Hell is a place of indescribable torment and punishment. So
throughout all eternity Heaven is the final eternal dwelling place of
the saved, and Hell is a place of eternal punishment of the lost and
total separation from God. Matt. 6:20; Luke 10:20; John 14:2; Daniel
7:10; Isaiah 33:14; Matt. 13:42; Mark 9:41; Rev. 14:10
9.
DEPRAVITY - Man is wicked, corrupt, and are all under sin. As it is
written, "There is none righteous, no not one;" proving that all were
alike under sin in an unregenerate condition. "The heart is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked." Gen. 6:5; Job 15:16; Psalm
14:3; Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 16:12; Matt. 23:27; Mark 9:41; Romans 1:24;
II Peter 2:12
10.
HOLY SPIRIT - The Holy Spirit is not the author of confusion concerning
the tongues movement of this church age. The Holy Spirit ministers to
the Christian, He regenerates, baptizes (not water), indwells, seals and
fills the believing sinner. The
believer does not get more of the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit more
of the believer. Therefore, these ministries of the Holy Spirit happen
instantaneously to the believing sinner, They all occur by faith and are
not in the least dependent upon one's personal emotional feelings at
the time. I Corinthians 14:33; Titus 3:5; Romans 5:3,4; Acts 2:4; I
Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 1:22
11. RAPTURE
AND SECOND COMING - The Lord Jesus Christ, Himself, is coming in the
air at any moment to catch up as many as receive Him. Those saved of all
ages will stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ and enjoy the marriage
supper of the Lamb. We believe in the personal, bodily, visible,
premillennial return (second coming) of Christ. Those left behind will
go through a period call the Tribulation, after which Christ, Himself,
shall return to the earth visible in body to set up His Kingdom of one
thousand years of 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 spend
eternity in the fullness of joy in Heaven with the Lord. Acts 1:11; I
Thessalonians 4:16-18; Revelation 19:11; Revelation 20:15; Matthew
24:42; Matthew 25:31
12.
DEVIL OR SATAN - We believe in the personality of Satan; that he is the
god of this world, blinding "the minds of them which believe not," and
the author of all the power of darkness. We believe that Satan was once
holy, and enjoyed heavenly honors, but through pride and ambition to be
as the Almighty, fell and drew after him a host of angels. Satan is the
author of all false religions, the chief power of darkness
--- destined, however, to judgment of an eternal justice in Hell, a
place prepared for him and his angels. Matthew 4:1-3; Revelation 20:1-3;
II Corinthians 4:3,4; Revelation 20:10; I Peter 5:8; Isaiah 14:12-15;
Ezekiel 28:14-17
13.
RESURRECTION - We believe in the bodily resurrection of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and that He arose bodily "the third day according to the
Scriptures" from the tomb ascended bodily into the heavens, that through
His resurrection a sure hope of immortality and everlasting life is
given to all who have been saved by His grace. He is at the right hand
of God as our 'Mediator, merciful and faithful High Priest, and
advocate." John 20; Hebrews 9:24; I Corinthians 15:12-28; Luke 24:1-7;
Romans 4:25
14. ETERNAL
SECURITY - We believe in the eternal security of all believers in our
Lord Jesus Christ. When a person is born again they have everlasting
life which never ends, and cannot be taken away from them. Saved
forever; God's children are kept by the power of God through faith unto
eternal salvation and sealed unto the day of redemption. That he will
never leave them, nor forsake them. John 10:27-30; I Peter 1:5; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:35-39; John 5:24; John 6:37-40; Hebrews 13:5
15.
LOCAL CHURCH - We believe that a scriptural church is a visible
assembly of baptized believers, covenanted together under New Testament
law for the purpose of carrying out the Great Commission, with an
unbroken history from the personal ministry of Jesus on earth to this
present day; that this church is a self-governed independent body having
Christ as the head, the Holy Spirit for its guide and the Bible as the
only rule of faith and practice. The only scriptural offices of the
church are the bishop (or pastor) and deacons. The two ordinances of the
local church are Baptism and Lord's Supper. On all matters of
membership, of policy, of government, or discipline, of benevolence,
etc., the will of the local church is final. Mark 16:15; Ephesians 1:22,
23; I Timothy 3; Titus 1; Acts 20:17-2
