Doctrinal Statement
- I believe that the Lord (Yahweh) is God and that there is no other God (Deu 6:4)
- I also believe that the Lord is a trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit and that these three are one (1 John 5:6,7)
- I believe that the Lord is creator of the world and created the world as is recorded in the Bible in the book of Genesis
- I believe in a literal six day creation that occurred approximately six thousand years ago
- I believe that Adam was a literal person and believe in a literal fall in which Adam sinned against God
- I believe in a literal Noah's flood (the Deluge) that covered the entire earth
- I believe in the inerrancy of Scriptures and believe that all scripture is “God breathed”
- I believe in the textural preservation of the Scriptures, and that not one word has passed away from Scripture
- I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is the Messiah
- I believe that Christ was born of a virgin
- I believe that Christ was fully man and fully God
- I believe that Christ lived a sinless life
- I believe that Jesus Christ fulfilled the Scriptures concerning the coming Redeemer
- I believe that Christ was crucified as a substitute for my sin
- I believe that Christ literally spent three days in hell as a substitute for mankind
- I believe that Christ rose from the dead on the third day
- I believe that Christ is THE (only) Way, THE (only) Truth, and THE (only) Life
- I believe that there is salvation in none other than Jesus Christ
- I believe that anyone who teaches salvation any other way than by faith in the finished work of Christ, is a heretic who is damned to hell and is cursed by God
- I believe that God's revelation of the Bible was completed with the book of Revelation, and that any “other” “further” revelation is damnable heresy
- I believe that Christ will literally return to earth (the rapture) to receive His people and that the dead in Christ shall rise first and then them that remain in Christ shall rise and be transformed to an incorruptible body to dwell forever with the Lord
- I believe in a literal tribulation after the rapture in which the earth will be judged
- I believe in a literal judgment of the damned, and that the damned shall be cast into the lake of fire (hell) to eternal torment for their sins
- I believe that God is just in His judgment of sins
- I believe that anyone who wills, can be saved from their sins and be born again
- I also believe in God's sovereignty and in God's election
- I personally do not understand how man turns to God out of His free will, and how God sovereignly rules over the affairs of man
- I am not an Arminian or a Calvinist, and do not claim to personally know all that happens at salvation
- I do believe that God is omniscient (that He knows all things) and that I do not understand all that God knows
- I believe that a man may resist God's grace
- I also believe that God may choose to harden a man's heart where that man will not repent at that moment
- I believe that God is true and what He says is final
- I believe that I am fallible and I may not be right in all things, but I believe that God is infallible and that His Word is infallible.