BASIC TRUTH MINISTRY DOCTRINAL STATEMENT(Our Basic Christian Beliefs)

BASIC TRUTH MINISTRY DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

(Our Basic Christian Beliefs)

1.  We believe the entire Old Testament and New Testament are verbally

     inspired of God, inerrant, and the final authority of Faith and Practice.

2.  We believe in one God who is eternal and the Creator of all things,

     including man, and Who exist as the Trinity, being in the persons of the

     Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

3.  We believe in Jesus Christ who was born of a virgin named Mary and is   

     the Incarnate God; also referred to as the God-man.

4.  We believe in the Holy Spirit who is the third Person of the Trinity and                

     was sent into the world by the Father and the Son.  We believe the Holy               

     Spirit instantly and permanently indwells the believer the moment he    

     puts his faith in Jesus Christ.

5.  We believe man was created in the image of God and that Adam's sin is               

     the cause of humanity's condemnation before God.  Man is now in need              

     of salvation from the guilt of sin.

6.  We believe in the vicarious death of Jesus Christ for man's sins and that   

     he rose bodily from the dead.  All who believe this in their heart about   

     Jesus Christ is justified before God, forgiven, and freed from condemnation.

7.  We believe in the personal, Imminent, Pretribulational, and Premillennial 

     return of Jesus Christ, first, to receive His own at the Rapture and, later, to 

     set up his Kingdom on Earth.

Supportive Biblical Passages

1. II Tim. 3:16,17; II Pet. 1:21

2. Gen. 1:1;   Deut.6:4;   Matt. 28:19

3. Matt. 1:18, 23; Lk.1:27, 35:  Phil.2:7-8

4. Matt. 3:16-17; 28:19; John 15:26; Ephesians 1:13

5. Gen. 1:26, 27; 2:16,17; 3:6; Rom. 3:23; 5:12; 6:23

6. John 1:29; 3:16; Rom. 3:24-26; 5:6-8; 10:9; I Cor. 15:1-4

7. Matt. 24:27,29-31, 36, 44; 25:31-46; John 14:2,3; Acts 1:6,7; I Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 20:4

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1   Inspired means “God Breathed  

2   inerrant means “no errors”

3   Incarnate means “in (the) flesh.”

4   See John 14:16, 26; 15:26

5   Personal means “bodily return” of Jesus Christ 

6   Imminent means “at any moment,”    

7   Pretribulation means “before the tribulation” (7 years of intense trouble on earth)

8   Premillennial means “before the millennium.” (1,000-year earthly reign of Christ)