OUR FAITH

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, the sixty-six canonical books of the Old and New Testaments as originally written were inspired by God. We believe that it was uniquely, and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts. They constitute the only infallible guide in faith and practice. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks. There is one true God, eternally exists eternally in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who are of one substance and equal equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.

Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person forever. He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died. He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own. He shall come again, personally and visibly, to complete his saving work and to consummate the eternal plan of God.

Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all men, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith. God created Adam and Eve in his own image. By disobedience, they fell from their sinless state through the temptation by Satan. This fall plunged humanity into a state of sin and spiritual death, and brought upon the entire race the sentence of eternal death. From this condition we can be saved only by the grace of God, through faith, on the basis of the work of Christ, and by the agency of the Holy Spirit.

At the end of the age, the bodies of the dead shall be raised. The righteous shall enter into full possession of eternal bliss in the presence of God, and the wicked shall be condemned to eternal death. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.