To all our friends and associates: Articles of Faith God save the world, Inc. Articles of Faith We believe the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, to be verbally inspired of God, infallible and God-breathed, and is the final authority for faith and life (II Timothy 3:16; 17; II Peter 1:16, 21). We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). We believe that God is an eternal person having no beginning and no ending. He is creator of all, infinite and infallible (John 4:24). We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and God the Son, that He is the only Savior of mankind (Acts 4:12). He is God incarnate in human flesh, that He is God of very God, for whom and by whom all things were created. We believe in His virgin Birth, His holy, sinless life, His vicarious death and His bodily resurrection. We are looking forward to His Second Coming, which we believe is imminent. We believe that He will reign on this earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords upon the throne of His father David for a millennium (John 1:1-3, Hebrews 1:8, Colossians 1:15-19, Isaiah 9:6- 7). We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. That He is God of very God (Acts 5:3-4), that He came on the day of Pentecost in 30 AD to baptize all believers into the body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:13), that He indwells every believer (Romans 8:9), fills (controls) the obedient (I John 1:9), and is the believers guide into all truth (John 16: 7-15). We believe that man was created in the likeness and image of God, but through the sin of Adam in the garden fell from his sinless state, and is no longer born in the likeness and image of God, but is born in sin, and alienated from God (Psalm 51:5, Isaiah 53:6, Romans 3:23). 7 We believe that man is justified by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross where He shed His blood for the sins of the whole world (John 3:16, Romans 5:1-9), that man is saved apart from his own works (Ephesians 2:8-9), that there is no salvation apart from Christ and His shed blood (Hebrews 9:22; I John 1:7). We believe in the personal, imminent, pre-tribulation and pre-millennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for the saved; and in His subsequent return to establish His Millennial Kingdom following the Tribulation. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. We believe that Satan is a person, that he is the deceiver of mankind and that at a later date God will cast him into the lake of fire (Revelation 12:9-10; Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10). We believe that Hell is a place prepared for the Devil and his angels as well as those who die in unbelief. (Matthew 25:41; Luke 16:19-31). We believe that baptism and communion are the two ordinances of the church. We believe that these ordinances are only for those who are believers in Christ. We believe that Baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Christ and a testimony to the world of one’s faith in Christ. (Romans 6:1-3, Matthew 28:19-20). We believe that Communion is a memorial looking back to the death of Christ and forward to His return. It is a time of renewed dedication to the Lord. We believe in the autonomy of the local Church, that it is a body of believers saved by faith in the shed blood of Christ.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:22:32 +0000
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