We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, authoritative and reliable in its ability to help us grow.
We believe in the Holy Trinity, who works together to make all things new.
We believe in Jesus’ deity, virgin birth, sinless life, death on the cross, resurrection, ascension to heaven, and in his soon return.
We believe the opportunity to experience forgiveness of sins for all have sinned and eternal life is made available to everyone through Jesus alone.
We believe the life and ministry of Jesus is the greatest example of love on earth and is to be our pattern as we learn to love God and our neighbours.
- God is love.
- God is Creator.
- God exists in a triune perfection of love.
- When God creates, He creates perfectly—without defect, without sin.
- God’s creation is built by Him to operate in harmony with Him and His law, which is an expression of His character and the operational protocols He built reality to operate upon.
- Sin is the transgression of or the breaking of God’s law—breaking the protocols life is built to function upon.
- The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23); sin, when fully grown, brings forth death (James 1:15); those who sow to the carnal nature FROM THAT NATURE reap destruction (Galatians 6:8).
- Sin takes one out of harmony with God and His law, which is the set of protocols life operates upon, and without divine intervention, sin results in death.
- When Adam sinned, he broke God’s law of life and became terminal, dead in trespass and sin.
- We are all born in sin, conceived in iniquity (Psalm 51:5); we have the terminal sin condition that we did not choose but that we inherited from Adam.
- Ever since the Fall, no human could fix the terminal sin condition caused by Adam’s sin; nothing we can do can cure it; we cannot save ourselves. Therefore, God promised in Eden that Jesus would come and destroy the sin problem and save humanity (Genesis 3:15).
- No human could have been saved without Jesus having come as our Savior; His life, death, and resurrection were a requirement for salvation.
- It was in the humanity of Jesus that the human species was saved. Because Jesus became a real human and lived a sinless life, overcoming Satan, sin, and death, there will always be a human being who lives—the species was saved in the person of Jesus.
- But Jesus also provided by His life, death, and resurrection what was necessary to save any other human being who trusts Him. It is only through Jesus, by faith/trust in Him, that we can be saved.
- God created human beings in His image with the capacity for reason, comprehension, understanding, and love. He wants our faithful, loyal trust and friendship (John 15:15), and this is achieved only as we are fully persuaded in our own minds (Romans 14:5). We are to mature from new babes in Christ to mature Christians who have developed the ability to discern right from wrong (Hebrews 5:14).
- When we trust in God, we open the heart and the Holy Spirit takes the victory of Christ and reproduces it in us. We get a new heart and right spirit, are reborn, have the law written into the heart/mind, and become partakers of the divine nature, such that it is no longer us, the old sinner, living but Christ living in us. This is salvation, healing, renewal, regeneration, which only comes by faith in Jesus.
- Christians can live victoriously only through intimate connection with Jesus.
- God’s judgment is not a legal finding but an accurate diagnosis of what is. His judgment does not determine who is saved or lost but confirms who chose to be saved or lost. When the Judge separates the sheep from the goats, it is because sheep are sheep (having trusted Jesus) and goats are goats (having rejected Jesus); the Judge doesn’t cause them to be other than they are.
- Prior to Jesus’ return, God purifies His people to prepare them to stand in His presence. This is the cleansing of the bride (the church) and was taught as an object lesson in the Old Testament sanctuary service.
- Humanity is mortal and receives the gift of immortality through Jesus Christ. One day there will be a bodily resurrection of the saints who will receive eternal life from their Savior.
- Satan’s final attack is through beastly systems. In Scripture, all human governments are represented by ferocious beasts because such animals dominate by force and killing, just like human governments govern by force, coercion, war, and killing their enemies. Jesus is represented by the gentleness of a lamb because He governs by truth, love, and freedom. The beastly systems advance through coercive force in their pursuit of justice, whereas Jesus advances through winning hearts to loyal love.