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God
created man in His image; that because of the
disobedience of our first parents at the Garden of Eden,
they lost their innocence and both they and their
descendants, separated from God, suffer physical and
spiritual death. All human beings, with the exception of
Jesus the Messiah, are sinners by nature and practice.
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are
divinely inspired, verbally and completely inerrant in
the original writings and of supreme and final authority
in all matters of faith and life.
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Our
sovereign God, existing in three: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit, perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom,
unbounded in power, and measureless in love; that God is
the source of all creation and that through the
immediate exercise of His power, all things came into
being. God the Father is the author of eternal
salvation, having loved the world and given His Son for
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Jesus
the Messiah was eternally pre-existent and is co-equal
with God the Father; that He took on Himself the nature
of man through the virgin birth so that He possesses
both divine and human natures. His sinless life and
perfect obedience to the Law; in His atoning death,
burial, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven,
high-priestly intercession and His personal return in
power and glory. The Holy Spirit is co-equal and
co-eternal with the Father and the Son; that He was
active in the creation of all things and continues to be
so in providence; that He convicts the world of sin,
righteousness, and judgment and that He regenerates,
sanctifies, baptizes, indwells, seals, illumines, guides
and bestows His gifts upon all believers.
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Jesus
the Messiah died for our sins, according to the
Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary
sacrifice; that all who believe in Him are justified,
not by any works of righteousness they have done, but by
His perfect righteousness and atoning blood and that
there is no other name under heaven by which we must be
saved. Israel exists as a covenant people through whom
God continues to accomplish His purposes and that the
Church is an elect people in accordance with the New
Covenant, comprising both Jews and Gentiles who
acknowledge Jesus as Messiah and Redeemer. Jesus the
Messiah will return personally in order to consummate
the prophesied purposes concerning His Kingdom.
In the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust,
the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the
everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
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