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We believe the King James 1611
"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 throughout its various generations and languages until
it reached us in its final form. By this 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.
We believe that salvation is by grace through faith in the blood
and finished atonement of Jesus Christ that he died on Calvary, that he
was buried, that his soul descended into hell, that on the third day he
resurrected, and that he is alive for evermore having conquered death and
hell.
We believe that believers should be immersed in water after
being saved. Such believer's baptism is an ordinance but is not a means of
grace.
We believe in a premillenial, pretribulational translation or
rapture of the Church.
We believe the miracle signs and gifts to belong primarily to
Israel, dispensationally speaking, and that these signs as practiced by
the Charismatics and Apostolic are exercised mainly in the flesh, are most
often fraudulent, and sometimes demonic and devilish in nature.
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. Men are free to reject God’s graciousness in
providing a free salvation. Further, Jesus Christ died for “all”
without exception, and that he by the grace of God tasted death for every
man.
We believe that we are not under the law, but under grace;
however the law still has its place in the day of grace. The law is just,
holy, and good if a man use it lawfully; for by the law is the knowledge
of sin, and sin is the transgression of the law. The law must be preached
to bring guilt and conviction to a lost man. The law is our schoolmaster
to bring us unto Christ. The law is perfect converting the soul. It is the
law that declares the holiness of God and the depravity of man, showing
man his need to repent and be saved.
We believe a man is secured in his salvation eternally and
unconditionally at the moment he believes, because Jesus Christ obtained
eternal redemption for us. This condition is secured by the numerous
irreversible works of God and the Holy Ghost.
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, as the god of this world, is its primary god and governor.
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.
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 Ghost as both God’s and Christ’s Spirit is
Himself God, as well.
We believe in a literal, hot and burning Hell and future Lake of
Fire.
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