Calvary Baptist Church

Statement of Faith
Text Box: CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH STATEMENT OF FAITH Sec. 1. We Believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. Sec. 2. We Believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Sec. 3. We Believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned, and thereby incurred, not only physical death, but also that spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature; and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word and deed. Sec. 4. We Believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is true God and true Man. Sec. 5. We Believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. Sec. 6. We Believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate. Sec. 7. We Believe in the personal, pretribulation, premillennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Sec. 8. We Believe in the bodily resurrection and judgment of the just (Judgment Seat of Christ), and the bodily resurrection and judgment of the unjust (Great White Throne Judgment), the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost. Sec. 9. We Believe that all who receive faith the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour are born again, and thereby become children of God; baptism and the partaking of the Lord's Supper should follow. Sec. 10. We Believe that the Holy Spirit indwells the believer and that He is the Comforter and Guide of all who receive Jesus Christ as personal Saviour. Sec. 11. We Believe the Church of Christ to be an elect company of believers, baptized by the Holy Spirit into one body; its mission is to witness concerning its Head, Jesus Christ; preaching the Gospel among all nations; and it will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air (I Timothy 3:15 "Pillar and ground of the truth"). Sec. 12. We Believe that the program of this Church should be old fashioned, Bible-believing, Bible-preaching, and soul winning.