THE SCRIPTURES: We believe that “all scripture is given by inspiration of God”, by which we understand the whole Bible is inspired in the sense that holy men of God “were moved by the Holy Spirit” to write the very words of Scripture. We believe that this divine inspiration extends equally and fully to all parts of the writings – historical, poetical, doctrinal, prophetical – as appeared in the original manuscripts.

II TIMOTHY 3:15-17; MARK 12:26 & 36; LUKE 24:27 & 44; JOHN 5:39; ACTS 1:16; 17:2-3; 18:28; 26:22-23; ROMANS 15:4; I CORINTHIANS 2:13 & 10:11; II PETER 1:21

THE GODHEAD: We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—and that these three are One God; having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and they are worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience.

II CORINTHIANS 13:14; MATTHEW 28:18-19; MARK 12:29; JOHN 1:14; ACTS 5:3-4;

HEBREWS 1:1-3; REVELATION 1:4 & 6.

THE CREATION AND THE FALL OF MAN: We believe that man was originally created in the image and after the likeness of God, and that he fell through sin, and as a consequence of his sin, lost his spiritual life, becoming dead in trespasses and sins, and that he became subject to the power of the devil. We also believe that this spiritual death and total depravity of human nature, has been transmitted to the entire human race, the man Christ Jesus alone being exempted; and hence that every child of Adam is born into the world with a nature which not only possesses no spark of divine life, but is essentially and unchangeably bad apart from divine grace.

GENESIS 1:26; EPHESIANS 2:1-3; GENESIS 2:17 & 6:5; PSALM 14:1-3 & 51:15; JEREMIAH 17:9; JOHN 3:6; 5:40; 6:53; ROMANS 3:10-19 & 8:6-7; I TIMOTHY 5:6; I JOHN 3:8

SATAN IS THE ORIGINATOR OF SIN: We believe that God created an innumerable company of sinless, spiritual beings, known as Angels, and that one, “Lucifer, son of the morning”—the highest in rank—sinned through his own pride, thereby becoming Satan; that a great company of Angels followed him in his moral fall, some of whom became demons and are active as his agents and associates in the prosecution of his unholy purposes, while others who fell are “reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto judgment of the great day.”

We believe that Satan is the originator of sin, and that, under the permission of God, he, through subtlety, led our first parents into transgression, thereby accomplishing their moral fall and subjecting them and their posterity to his own power; that he is the enemy of God and the people of God, opposing and exalting himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped; and that he in the beginning said, “I will be like the most High.” In his warfare he appears as an angel of light, even counterfeiting the works of God by fostering religious movements and systems of doctrine, which systems are characterized by a denial of the efficacy of the blood of Christ and of salvation by grace alone through faith in Christ alone.

ISAIAH 14:12-15; EZEKIEL 28:11-19; I TIMOTHY 3:6; II PETER 2:4; JUDE 1:6; GENESIS 3:1-19; ROMANS 5:12-14; II CORINTHIANS 4:3-4 & 11:13-15; EPHESIANS 6:10-12;

II THESSALONIANS 2:4; I TIMOTHY 4:1-3

SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST: We believe that owing to universal death through sin, no degree of reformation however great, no attainments in morality however high, no culture however attractive, no baptism or other ordinance however administered, can help the sinner to take even one step toward heaven. A new nature imparted from above, a new life implanted by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God, is absolutely essential to salvation, and only those thus changed are the children of God.

We believe also, that our redemption has been accomplished solely by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was made to be sin for us, and dying in our place was cursed for us; and that no repentance, no feeling, no faith, no good resolutions, no sincere efforts, no submission to rules and regulations of any church can add in the very least degree to the value of the blood of Christ, or to the merit of the finished work wrought for us by Christ who united was united in His true and proper deity with perfect and sinless humanity.

We believe that the new birth of the believer comes only through faith in Christ as personal Saviour without any acts, such as confession, baptism, prayer, or faithful service, to be added to belief in the finished work of Christ on the cross as the condition for salvation.

ROMANS 1:16-17; JOHN 1:12; 3:16-18 & 36; 5:24; 6:29; ACTS 13:39; 16:31; GALATIANS 3:22 & 26; 4:4-5; LEVITICUS 17:11; ISAIAH 64:6; MATTHEW 26:28; JOHN 3:7-18; ROMANS 5:6-9;

II CORINTHIANS 5:21; GALATIANS 3:13 & 6:15; EPHESIANS 1:7; PHILIPPIANS 3:4-9; TITUS 3:5-6

THE CHURCH A BODY OF BELIEVERS: We believe that all who are united to the Lord Jesus Christ, through faith in Christ as their own personal Saviour, are members of the Church, which is the Body of Christ, and that the Body of Christ is completely distinct from Israel.

We believe that by the same Spirit all believers in this age of grace are baptized into one Body, and that is the Body of Christ. Having become members one of another, we have a solemn duty to keep the unity of the Body in the bond of peace, loving one another with a pure heart.

I CORINTHIANS 12:12-27; ROMANS 12:5; EPHESIANS 1:20-23; 4:3-10; COLOSSIANS 3:14-15