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This Church believes the Bible, consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, is verbally (every word) and plenarily (fully) inspired (Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 18:20) and inerrant in the original writings and is the supreme and final standard against which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions are measured (2 Samuel 23:1-2; Matthew 5:18; John 10:35; 1 Corinthians 2:10-13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21).

This Church believes there is one triune God, who eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each of which is identical in essence, equal in power and glory, and possesses the same attributes (Deuteronomy 6:4; Micah 5:2; Matthew 28:18-19; John 1:1-14; Acts 5:3-4).

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God the Father

This Church believes God the Father is a person separate from the Son and the Spirit and invisible to man in this life. With God the Father, the Son has had an eternal relationship as Son; and from the Father and Son proceeds eternally the Holy Spirit. God the Father has a personal relationship with each believer as Father (John 15:26; 17:21; Romans 8:14-16; Ephesians 1:3; 1 Peter 1:17).

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God the Son

This Church believes the eternal Son of God became incarnate and united God and man in one person—Jesus Christ. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit; was born of the virgin Mary; was and is sinless; revealed the Father in His person, words, and works; died on the cross for all men’s sins; provided bodily salvation by His resurrection; ascended bodily into heaven where He ministers as each believer’s high priest in intercession and advocacy; and saves all who call upon Him in repentance and faith. He is to return imminently for His body, the church, prior to the seven-year Tribulation yet to come and will return subsequently for a thousand-year reign over Israel and the nations, which reign will begin shortly after the Tribulation ends (2 Samuel 7:12-16; Zechariah 14:4-11; Luke 1:30-35; 2:11; John 1:13-14; 8:18-19; 14:6-11; Acts 1:10-11; 3:19-21; 15:14-18; Romans 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4, 42-47, 51, 52; Colossians 1:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Timothy 2:5; 3:16; Hebrews 1:2,3; 4:14-16; 10:12; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 John 2:1-2; Revelation 19:11-16; 20:6).

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God the Holy Spirit

This Church believes the Holy Spirit reveals the Father and the Son; convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment; regenerates sinners at the moment of faith; baptizes them into the church—the body of Christ; indwells and seals them permanently; bestows spiritual gifts upon each believer for the edification of the church; and fills and illumines those yielded to Him (John 3:8; 14:16; 15:26-27; 16:7-15; Acts 1:4-8, 2:1-4; 10:44; 11:16; Romans 3:9; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, 13; Ephesians 4:30; 5:18; 1 John 2:20, 27). This Church believes certain gifts of the Spirit—such as apostleship, prophecy, and tongues—were temporary in nature, were needed only in the infancy of the church, and are not to be experienced today (Ephesians 2:20; Hebrews 2:2-4).

This Church believes in the account of creation as presented in the book of Genesis, and that this account is to be accepted literally; that man was created directly in God’s own image and after His own likeness; that man’s existence on earth is not attributable to any evolutionary process but is the result of a direct creative act of God (ex nihilo, that is, out of nothing). This Church believes that the days referenced in Genesis 1 were literal twenty-four hour days. This Church believes that God sustains His creation (Genesis 1: 26-27; 2:7; Exodus 20:11; Nehemiah 9:6; John 1:3; Acts 4:24; 17:23-26; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 11:3; Revelation 10:6).

This Church believes God created Adam in pristine holiness; however, by a voluntary transgression, Adam fell from his sinless and happy state. Each individual is accountable for original sin (Adam’s) as well as his own personal sin and therefore is under just condemnation without defense or excuse. Man in his natural state is in a condition of total depravity; that is, sin touches every aspect of his being, and he is utterly incapable of receiving the things of the Spirit of God apart from the quickening grace of the Holy Spirit (Genesis 3:1-6; Romans 1:18, 28; 3:10-19, 23; 5:12, 19; Ephesians 2:1-3).

This Church believes Satan is a person and was once holy and enjoyed heavenly honors but through pride and ambition to be as the Almighty, fell and drew after him a host of angels (now called demons). He is now the malignant prince of the power of the air and the unholy god of this age. This Church holds him to be man’s greatest tempter, the enemy of God and Christ, the accuser of the children of God, and the chief of all the powers of darkness—destined, however, to final defeat at the hand of God’s Son and to the judgment of an eternal justice in the Lake of Fire, a place prepared for him and his angels (Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:14-17; Matthew 25:41; Ephesians 2:2; 6:11-12; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-11; Revelation 12:7-9; 20:1-3, 10).

This Church believes the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace through the mediation of the Son of God, who, by the appointment of the Father, freely became man; yet, without sin, Christ kept the divine law on our behalf by His personal obedience and, by His death, made a full and vicarious sacrifice for our sins. His sacrifice did not consist of setting an example by his death as a martyr but rather was a voluntary substitution of Himself in our place—the just dying for the unjust. This Church believes that after He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, He was and continues to be enthroned there and unites in His wonderful person the most tender sympathies with divine perfection. He is qualified in every way to be a suitable, compassionate, and all-sufficient Savior and High Priest (Isaiah 53:4-7; Matthew 18:11; John 3:16; Romans 3:24-25; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 2:8; Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 2:14; 4:14-16; 7:25; 1 John 4:10).