The following articles are what this club or web page believes and teaches, regarding the Bible, Christian living and Basic Christian Beliefs. These are provided so that you will know in advance what we believe.
1. The Bible - The Scriptures of the old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God and are our infallible rule of faith and practice.
2. God - There is one living and true God, revealed in nature as the Creator, Preserver and Righteous Governor of the universe; and in the Scriptures as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, yet as one God, infinitely wise and good, whom all intelligent creatures are to love, adore and obey supremely.
3. Christ - Christ is God manifest in the flesh in His divine nature, truly God, in His human nature, truly man, once crucified. He is now risen and glorified and is our ever present Saviour and Lord.
4. The Holy Spirit - The Scriptures assign to the Holy Spirit all the attributes of God.
5. The Government of God - God exercises a wise and benevolent providence over all beings and things by maintaining the constitution and the laws of nature. He also performs special acts,not otherwise provided for, as the highest welfare of men requires.
6. The Sinfulness of Man - Man was created innocent but by disobedience fell into a state of sin and condemnation. His posterity, therefore, inherit a fallen nature of such tendencies that all who come to years of accountability, sin, and become guilty before God.
7. The Work of Christ. The Son of God by His incarnation, life, sufferings, death and resurrection effected for all a redemption from sin that is full and free and is the ground of salvation by faith.
8. The Terms of Salvation - The conditions of salvation are: a. Repentance or sincere sorrow for sin and hearty renunciation of it. b. Faith or the unreserved committal of one's self to Christ as Savior and Lord with purpose to love and obey Him in all things. In the exercise of saving faith, the soul is renewed by the Holy Spirit, freed from the dominion of sin, and becomes a child of God. c. Continuance in faith and obedience until death.
9. Election - God determined from the beginning to save all who should comply with the conditions of salvation. Hence, by faith in Christ, men become His elect.
10. Freedom of the Will - The human will is free and self-controlled, having power to yield to the influence of the truth and the Spirit or to resist them and perish.
11. Salvation is Free - God desires the salvation of all; the Gospel invites all; the Holy Spirit strives with all and whosoever will may come and take of the water of life freely.
12. Resurrection, Judgement and Final Retribution - The Scriptures teach the resurrect of all men at the last day. They that are saved, will come forth to the resurrection of life, those that are not saved to resurrection of damnation; then the unsaved will "go away into eternal punishment, but the saved to eternal life. |
