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We believe the King James "Authorized Version" Bible to be the perfect and infallible word of God. We believe the Bible was inspired in its origination and then divinely preserved (Ps. 12:6 & 7) throughout its various generations and languages until it reached us in its final form. By this (Isa. 40:8) we mean that the Authorized Version preserves the very words of God in the form in which He wished them to be represented in the universal language of these last days: English. (Matt. 24:35; Mk. 13:31) We believe that salvation is by grace through
faith in the blood and finished atonement of Jesus Christ at Calvary. (Eph.
2:8 & 9; Rom. 11:6; Col. 1:14; Jn 19:30) We believe that believers should be immersed
in water after being saved. Such believers baptism (Matt. 28:19; Acts 8:37 & 38;
1 Pet. 3:21) is an ordinance but is not a means of grace. Also, We believe
the other ordinance to be the Lord's Supper or Communion. We believe in open
communion, you do NOT have to be a church member to participate. This is a
memorial and again, not a means of grace. We believe in a premillenial, pretribulational
translation or rapture of the Church. (1 Thess. 4:16-18, 5:9) We believe that a depraved and sinful nature
and a naturally dead spirit does not hinder a man from being a free moral agent
who is capable and expected by God to will and believe and respond to the admonitions
of the Gospel(Jhn 3:16; Rom. 6:23; Rom. 10:13). Men are free to reject God's
graciousness in providing a free salvation. Further, Jesus Christ died for "all" without
exception. (Matt 11:28) We believe a man is secured in his salvation
eternally and unconditionally at the moment he believes. This condition is
secured by the numerous irreversible works of God and the Holy Spirit. (Jn.
10:28-31; Rom. 8:38 & 39; Phil. 1:6; Jude 1:24; 1 Jn. 5:12 & 13; Eph.
1:12 & 13, 4:30; Jn. 1:12; Jn. 5:24) We believe that the saints should be separate
from the world as pilgrims and sojourners, that the world is evil in its nature
and that Satan is its primary god and governor. ( 1 Cor. 6:9-20) We believe in the active and vigorous pursuit
of lost sinners by street preaching, tract distribution, door-to-door witnessing
and any other reasonable and appropriate methods of sowing the seed of the
word of God. ( Mk. 16:15; Prov. 11:30; Acts 5:42) We believe the trinitarian doctrine of
the Godhead and therefore believe Jesus Christ not only to be the Son of God
but also God Himself, the image of God, God manifest in the flesh. We also
find abundant evidence that the Holy Spirit as both God's and Christ's Spirit
is Himself God, as well. ( Col. 2:9; 1 Tim. 3:16; Isa. 9:6; Jn. 1:1-3; Jn.
10:30; Matt. 28:19; Isa. 7:14) We believe in a literal, hot and burning Hell and future Lake of Fire. (Lk. 16:19-31; Isa. 66:24; Rev. 20:10) |
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