 - in the Scripture of the Old and New Testament as verbally inspired by God, inerrant in the original writing, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and practice.
- in one God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man.
- that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is eternal separation from God.
- that all human beings are born with a sinful nature.
- that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our own sins according to the Scripture as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
- 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.
- in "that Blessed Hope," the personal, visible, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
- that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
- in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
- that God created the heavens and the earth according to the book of Genesis.
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