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We
believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are
verbally and completely inerrant in the original writings
and of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
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We
believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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We
believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary.
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believe that man was created in the image of God. That man
sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also
spiritual death, which is separation from God. That all
human beings are born with a sinful nature, and, in the case
of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in
thought, word, and deed.
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We
believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures as a representative and
substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him
are redeemed and justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
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We
believe in resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord,
His ascension into Heaven and His present life for us as
High Priest and Advocate.
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We
believe in "that Blessed Hope" - the personal,
pre-millennial and imminent return of our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ.
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We
believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ
are born of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of
God.
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We
believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the
unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the
everlasting conscious punishment of the lost along with
Satan and the other fallen angels.
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We
believe in the threefold work of the Holy Spirit; that He
seeks out and brings the lost to salvation; that He
sanctifies the believer, and that He baptizes and gives
spiritual gifts to the Christian for service.
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We
believe that the church is a spiritual organism made up of
all believers in Christ; that in its local manifestation it
is in an autonomous assembly of believers; and that its
ordinances are baptism and communion.
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We
believe that God is worthy of all praise, reverence, and
love; and that the highest calling of a Christian is the
worship of Him.
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