We believe:
God is the creator of all things.
- There is one God, the Father.
- God is the creator of the entire Universe.
- God is still involved in the world today.
The Bible is the word of God.
- God moved faithful people to write the Bible.
- The Bible contains God’s message of salvation for us.
- We learn about what God wants from us in the Bible.
Jesus Christ is God’s son.
- Jesus was conceived by divine will and is God’s perfect fully human son.
- Jesus shows us the way to restore our broken relationship with God and atoned for our sin with his own sinless life.
- Jesus died and after three days in the grave his Father raised him from the dead. This fact is the basis for our Christian faith.
We associate with Jesus’ death and resurrection through baptism.
- God asks us to believe in him and all that he has fulfilled and promised in Jesus.
- Faith in God and in Jesus unites us in a relationship with them.
- Baptism is a public outward expression of an already existing inward conversion.
- Baptism is a symbolic death and resurrection like Jesus’ own.
We die as a result of our sin, but will be raised from the dead.
- Everybody sins and inevitably dies as a result.
- When we die, we cease to exist.
- Jesus will return to the earth and establish God’s Kingdom.
- At that time, there will be a resurrection to life or judgement of the righteous and the unrighteous.
Jesus will return to the earth to set up God’s Kingdom.
- After his resurrection, Jesus ascended to heaven and is now at the right hand of Almighty God, his father.
- Jesus will one day return to earth to set up a Kingdom filled with true justice and peace.
- Once established, this Kingdom of God will never be overthrown and will last forever.
We also believe:
‘SATAN’ and ‘DEVIL’ are not a corrupt angelic being.
- Satan literally means adversary, enemy.
- Devil literally means slanderer or false accuser.
- ‘Satan’ and ‘devil’ is anything that is opposed to God and to his will for us.
‘Demons’ are not ministers to a corrupt angelic being.
- Demon literally means deity, divinity, a spirit or god (Acts 17: 18, 22)
- Being ‘with a demon(s)’ was an idiom and explanation of the time for fearsome and inexplicable maladies.