What We Believe

 

 

We believe in one God, consisting of three separate and distinct Persons:

 

a) The Father (John 12:28b)

b) The Son (Is. 48:16)

c) The Holy Spirit (Acts 10:19, 20)

 

These three Persons have existed for all eternity:

 

a) The Father (Ps. 90:2)

b) The Son (Mic. 5:2)

c) The Holy Spirit (Heb. 9:14)

 

We believe the Godhead share the following attributes:

 

Omnipotent

 

God the Father (1 Pet. 1:5)

God the Son (2 Cor. 12:9)

God the Holy Spirit (Rom. 15:13)

 

Omniscient

 

The Father (Jer. 17:10)

The Son (Rev. 2:23)

The Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 2:11)

 

Omnipresent

 

The Father (Jer. 23:24)

The Son (Matt. 18.20)

The Holy Spirit (Ps. 139:7)

 

We believe the Trinity worked together in the creation of the world:

 

The Father (Gen.1:1)

The Son (Col. 1:16-18)

The Holy Spirit (Job 26:13)

 

They each worked together to resurrect Jesus from the dead:

 

The Father raised Him from the dead (Gal. 1:1)

The Son raised Himself from the dead (John 2:19-21)

The Holy Spirit raised Him from the dead (Rom. 8:11)

 

We believe in a young earth (thousands of years old) and we believe in a literal 6/24-hour day creation of the world.

 

We believe that mankind is universally sinful and wicked (Gen. 6:5; Rom. 3:23; 5:12), yet anyone has the potential to be saved (John 12:32; Rom. 5:18; 1 Tim. 4:10), should they repent (Acts 5:31; 11:18; 17:30) and call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation (John 1:12; Rom. 10:13.)

 

We believe sinners are saved and kept saved by faith in Christ alone (Tit. 3:4-8; Eph. 4:30), which is a free gift (Rom. 5:15) that cannot be earned or lost (Eph. 2:8-10.)

 

We believe in the equality and universal priesthood of all Christians (Matt. 20:27; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 5:10) and in the unity, love and fellowship of all born again Bible believing Christians (1 John 3:23.)

 

We believe the Bible is inspired (2 Tim. 3:16), inerrant (John 10:35b), infallible (2 Tim. 2:15) and eternally preserved (Ps. 12:6,7.)

 

We believe the King James Bible is God's final perfect and infallible word to the world (Ecc. 8:4.)

 

We believe that the Rapture (John 14:1-3) will occur before the Great Tribulation (Rev. 4:1.)

 

We believe in a literal thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ on the earth, better known as the millennial reign, which will occur after Daniel's 70th week, better known as the Great Tribulation (Zech. 14:1-10; Matt. 25:31-44.)

 

We believe in a literal and final false prophet in the religious sphere (Rev. 16:13) and a literal and final antichrist in the political sphere (Rev.11:7), which are both to come in the near future. This view, we believe, is consistent with the Scripture and with the first three hundred years of the Church, with leaders such as Irenaeus onwards, believing that a literal antichrist would appear on the scene shortly before the Second Advent.

 

When the Protestant Reformation was launched, this historical view was officially altered, and replaced with the 12th century view, that the office of the Papacy was the antichrist. However, while we believe the pope to be a type of antichrist/false prophet, we cannot agree with the reformed position that all popes are the antichrist of Scripture; for we believe that the Jews would only recognise a Jewish Messiah (not a Gentile) and furthermore, we believe in the historical belief that the antichrist may come from the Jewish tribe of Dan (Gen. 49:17.)

 

Three things need to occur before the Antichrist will be unveiled to the world:

 

1) A major apostasy and falling away occurs (1 Tim. 4:1-3)

2) The Holy Spirit ceases to restrict the man of sin (2 Thess. 2:5-9) 

3) The Internet and television will be used by the Antichrist (Rev. 11:10) 

25th-May-2013