... there
is one, and only one, true and living God; and that God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Spirit are the three personalities of the one divine
God.
... God
created the heaven and the earth in six literal days, and that man was
created distinct from and eminently higher than the animals.
... the
whole Bible was written by men supernaturally and verbally inspired, and is
preserved in the English language through the King James Bible.
...
redemption is through the efficacy of the blood of Christ; that Christ died
for the whole world, and offers salvation to all mankind. However, all will
not be saved because they will not accept His offered mercy.
... in
order to be saved, one must be born again and that salvation is by grace
through faith in Christ without any mixture of works whatsoever.
... the
church was personally founded by Jesus Christ during His ministry on earth;
that it is a visible, local congregation of baptized believers, associated
by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the
ordinances of Christ; invested in her by His Word; that her only scriptural
officers are pastors and decons, whose qualifications, claims, and duties
are clearly defined in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus
... baptism
and the Lord's Supper are the two ordinances set in the church by the Lord
Jesus Christ.
... baptism
is the burial of a believer in water, symbolizing the death, burial, and
resurrection, of Jesus Christ, and that it may only be performed by the
authority of a local Church.
... the
Lord's Supper is a memorial spread and administered by the authority of a
local Church, that it symbolizes the broken body and the shed blood of the
Son of God, and that it is restricted to those who hold membership to a New
Testament Church.
... Jesus
Christ is coming back for His saints, who will go on to live with Him
eternally, and the wicked shall suffer endless punishment in an eternal
hell.
