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1. We believe the Holy Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God, therefore, wholly without error as originally given of God, altogether sufficient in themselves as our only infallible rule of faith and practice. 2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 3. We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood accomplishing our Salvation, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. 4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential and that this salvation is received through faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and not as a result of good human efforts. 5. We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit, who regenerates and indwells all believers, and whose present ministry is to enable the revealing of Christ to man, to convict of sin, and by His presence and power to sanctify Christians to live a godly life and to perform good works. 6. We believe that man was created by, and in the image of, God, that man sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death which is separation from God, that all humanity is born into a sin-filled world and upon reaching the age of moral responsibility, becomes sinful in thought, word and deed. 7. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, that all who believe in Him are, by God's grace, freely justified on the basis of His shed blood. 8. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all humanity, the just and the unjust: the just, having been redeemed by the shed blood of Christ, to eternal blessing, and the unjust, having rejected Christ's redemption, to eternal punishment. 9. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, having been baptized by the Holy Spirit into one body and united to the resurrected and ascended Son of God. 10. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper to be observed by the Church.
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