1-The Inspiration
of the Bible:
We believe the Holy Scriptures are the
verbally
inspired Word and Revelation of God. The Bible is inerrant,
infallible-God-breathed and to be taken literally. Psalm 19:7-11; 2
Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:16-21; Luke 24:13-28; John 16:12-16; Psalm
12:6-7; Isaiah 40:8; Psalm 138:2.
We
un-ashamedly hold the 1611 King James Bible
(commonly known as the Authorized Version) up as the only Bible version
preserved by God for todays English speaking people.
2-
The Trinity :
We
believe in the Triune God Head: God the
Father, God
the Son, and God the Holy Spirit which are coequal and co-eternal. Each
has His
individual identity and separate responsibilities for the purposes of
redemption, yet perfectly united as three Persons in One. 1 John 5:1-8;
John 16:7-18; Matthew 28:19; Genesis 1:26.
3-
The Deity and Virgin Birth of Christ
:
We
believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ. He is
the only begotten, virgin born Son of God, the second Person in the
Blessed Trinity, God the Son; who is God manifest in the flesh. 1
Timothy
3:16; John 1:1-14; John 14:9; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-25; John
10:36.
4-
The Blood Atonement :
We
believe in the substitutionary atonement of
the Lord Jesus Christ. He, by the grace of God, tasted death for every
man, and all must be born again or be forever lost. Hebrews 2:9; John
6:44-69; John 3: 118; Romans 3:25; Revelation 1:5; Hebrews 9:22; 1
Peter 1:18-19. The Lord's atonement was not limited with respect to
whom God's salvation is offered, i.e., His shed blood is sufficient for
all sin and, therefore, "who so ever will" may believe and be saved to
the uttermost. 1 John 2:2; Hebrews 7:22-25; Revelation 22:17.
5-
The Resurrection :
We
believe in the physical, bodily resurrection
of our
Lord Jesus Christ. He ascended bodily into the heavens and is now at
the right hand of God as our Mediator, Priest, and Advocate. Acts
3:12-26; John 20; Hebrews 9:24; 1 Corinthians 15:12-28; 1 John
2:1.
6-
Heaven and Hell :
We
believe that Heaven is a real place of eternal
blessedness prepared by God for those whose garments have been "made
white" through faith in the shed "blood of the Lamb." Hell is a real
place of eternal suffering for those whose names are not written in the
"book of life." There is no intermediate state in which the unsaved can
atone for his own sins or have them mediated by another person. John
14:1-6; Revelation 7:13-17; 20:11-15;
21:22-27; 2 Corinthians 5:1-10; Luke 16:19-31.
7-
Justification by Faith :
We
believe that man is justified on the single
ground of faith in the shed blood and bodily resurrection of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 Ephesians 2:8-9. The
all-sufficient and completed work of Redemption accomplished through
His death and resurrection is fully appropriated at the moment in time
by those who receive by faith the free gift of salvation offered in the
one true Gospel.
8-
Eternal Security :
We
believe in the eternal security of all
believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. Once a lost sinner has become a
"new creature in Christ," he can never lose that new relationship in
the family of God which is based upon Christ's imputed righteousness
and not his own. The life that God imparts to the believing sinner is
not "eternal life" if it can be terminated. 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; John
10:25-29.
9-
The Holy Spirit and Body of Christ
:
We
believe all regenerated people are baptized
into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit the moment they receive
Christ as their Saviour. 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 10:32;
Ephesians 2:13-18. The Holy Spirit indwells all who have been born
again from above. Also, the baptism of the Spirit is not a separate
event apart from the receiving of the gift of the Holy Spirit upon
believing on Christ unto salvation. Acts 15:6-11; Galatians 3:2,14;
Romans 10:1317; Romans 8:9. The Church which is Christ's Body consists
of all those who, in the present dispensation, truly believe and accept
Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. Romans 8:14-27; James 1:18; John
1:12; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Matthew 16:16-18.
10- We believe that Repentance
is necessary:
For a person to be truly born again he or she must have repentance
toward God for their sin. 2 Cor. 7:10- " For godly sorrow worketh
repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the
world worketh death". Jesus said in Luke 13:3 and 13:5- "I tell you,
Nay: but, except ye
repent, ye shall all likewise perish". Any method of easy-believism
that removes repentance is a death sentence and leads people to hell
without Christ !
Additional
beliefs :
We believe the
Authorized Version of the Bible which is referred to as the
1611 King James Version is an accurate translation
and
is the preserved Word of God; translated from the original Hebrew and
Greek
writtings and purposely
given by God as His preserved word for the english speaking
people of
the world. We conclude that there are no other translations
given by God for
the English Speaking people.
Brother James T. Tyson Sr