I believe:
the Bible is God's word. It was breathed and inspired by him through the Holy Spirit, to men, and was written by men. All 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are fully inspired and that it was written without error (inerrant). It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks;
God is. He is the transcendent, immanent, one and only true God who is personal, knowable, supreme, all knowing, Omni-present, and triune in his nature; eternally existing in three persons-God the Father, God the Son, God and Holy Spirit; the creator of life and matter as we know it, of all creation, seen, unseen, past, present, and future;
man was created by God. God created male and female, soul and spirit that will live forever, all mankind has inherited the sin nature from the first man, Adam;
Jesus Christ, the second in the trinity, is fully God and fully man. He is the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth, he lived a sinless life; He was raised from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures. He is alive in heaven today; Jesus Christ became the sinner's sacrifice before God when He shed His blood and died as the payment for the sins of humanity;
salvation is by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ. Man cannot "work" his way to salvation;
the Church, also called the Bride of Christ in Scripture began as described in the book of Acts, consists of all who claim Jesus Christ as Savior. Its purpose is to glorify God, minister to each other, declare the gospel to those outside of the church, and will continue until the Rapture;
the future consists of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; a physical resurrection of all humanity—the saints to everlasting joy in the presence of God, and the wicked to conscious and eternal torment as punishment for their disbelief of and disobedience to God.
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