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Statement Of Faith
* We believe the absolute, sole, authoritative rule for faith and practice is the perfect, preserved word of God, which, for English-speaking people, is solely the AV 1611, King James Bible.
* We believe all modern English versions contain corruptions and doctrinal errors
(Psalms 12:6-7).
Psalms 12:6-7 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
* We believe in one triune God, eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections
(Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Timothy 1:17; 1 John 5:7).
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
1 Timothy 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
* We believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His vicarious death for sinners, His literal, bodily resurrection and His literal, bodily ascension
(1 Timothy 3:16).
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
SECTION 4: THE ETERNAL STATE OF MANKIND
* We believe the souls of believers immediately ascend to Heaven after death and live for eternity.
* We believe the souls of unbelievers immediately descend to Hell after death and burn for eternity
(2 Corinthians 5:8; Luke 16:22-23; Matthew 25:41, 46)
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Luke 16:22-23 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Matthew 25:41, 46 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
* We believe any repentant sinner has the free choice to trust in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for salvation.
* The sinner’s prayer is used for this belief provided the person does not think salvation is by repeating a prayer.
* Once saved, the person is always saved, eternally secured, and cannot lose salvation no matter what sin is committed in the future.
* Therefore, we reject any belief that attacks repentance, the sinner’s prayer, and the free gift of salvation.
* We also reject salvation by works, Calvinism and “lordship salvation,”
(Acts 20:21; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 10:9; Ephesians 2:8-9, 4:30).
Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
* We believe in the gifts of the Spirit with the exception of those gifts which are specifically called “signs” (speaking of tongues, visions, prophecies and healers).
* People can only partake in the signs when they are surrounded by:
(1) the apostles since they must confirm the word while the complete Bible was unavailable, and
(2) the Jews since signs were originally purposed for them.
* We believe signs have gradually ceased, because:
(1) the gradual switch from Jews to Gentiles now annuls its purpose,
(2) the apostles recognized this cessation, and
(3) the Bible is available today.
* Thus, we walk by faith in His words, not by signs to see.
* No scriptural evidence is found anywhere to support signs for today with the sole exception of Satan’s ministers.
* If a person claims to perform signs, we have the right to put that individual through any test
(Mark 16:14, 17-18; 2 Timothy 4:20; 1 Corinthians 1:22; Acts 13:45-46; Hebrews 2:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Romans 10:17; Mark 13:22; Revelation 2:2).
Mark 16:14, 17-18 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
2 Timothy 4:20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
1 Corinthians 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
Acts 13:45-46 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Hebrews 2:3-4 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
* We reject apostasy and compromise that result from ecumenical meetings and doctrinal deemphasis
(Romans 16:17).
Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
* We believe that God created the universe in six literal, 24-hour periods. We reject evolution, the day-age theory, theistic evolution, and intelligent design not attributed to God as unscriptural theories of origin. We also reject labeling the gap theory as “heresy” since it raises unnecessary division and more confusion than answers to the subject of creation
(Mark 10:6; Genesis 1-2; Isaiah 45:18).
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Isaiah 45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
* We believe in the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ to rapture the church before the Tribulation.
* At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will return to earth, establish His reign from the city of Jerusalem, and confirm His kingship over the earthly Messianic Kingdom that was promised to the nation of Israel.
(Luke 21:21-23; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Romans 11:25-29; Revelation 19:11-16; 20:1-6).
Luke 21:21-23 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 11:25-29 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Revelation 19:11-16 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Revelation 20:1-6 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
SECTION 10: DISPENSATIONALISM
* We believe the scriptures should be rightly divided in order to define mankind’s responsibilities in successive ages towards God.
* We believe proper dispensationalism result from a historical-grammatical approach, literal interpretation, and progressive revelation.
* We reject any “anti-dispensational” or “revised dispensational” view that teaches bondage to the Mosaic law and Sabbath, salvation has been the same in all ages, the church replaces Israel, and the church will endure through the Tribulation.
* We reject the Mid-Acts movement that teach the church started in the middle of Acts or afterwards.
* We reject any other “hyper-dispensational” view that abolishes Christian application in the Old Testament, the General Epistles, Romans 10, the bride of Christ, water baptism, Lord’s Supper, and tithing
(2 Timothy 2:15; 3:16-17; 1 Peter 1:10-12; 2 Peter 3:16, 18).
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
1 Peter 1:10-12 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
2 Peter 3:16, 18 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.