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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) |


