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We believe the Bible to be the verbally inspired Word of God: inspired, inerrant, infallible, and the final authority for faith and practice in all areas of life, as revealed by His Spirit.
We believe in the One True God, eternally existing in Three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, essentially the same in being, character and glory. We believe that Jesus Christ united His divine nature with a holy human nature forming one Person who lived a holy life and died a holy death in place of sinners, that He was raised from the dead on the third day, ascended to Heaven and is exalted at the right hand of the Father.
We believe that man is guilty of sinning against and personally offending the Holy God Who made him, and that the Justice of God requires that He punish both the sinner and his sin. We also believe that Jesus Christ bore the penalty for sin in place of sinners and that God saves men by His grace through their faith in Christ, creating a new creature in Christ who desires to live and walk to the praise of His glory in every detail of life.
There is one God and only one mediator between God and man, and that mediator is our Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is found in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Salvation is by Grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. It is not the product of works, nor faith in any other institution.
We believe in the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ for his redeemed ones and in the bodily resurrection of all men: the saved unto eternal life in the glorious presence of God and the unsaved unto everlasting punishment separated forever from the presence and favor of God.
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