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Holding the Bible as the complete
and only divine
revelation, we strongly believe that God
is eternally one and also eternally
the Father, the
Son, and the
Spirit, the three being distinct
but not separate.
We hold that Christ is both the
complete God and the
perfect man.
Without abandoning His divinity,
He was conceived in the womb of a human virgin, lived a
genuine human life on earth, and died a
vicarious and
all-inclusive death on the cross. After three days
He resurrected
bodily
and has ascended to the heavens. He is
now in glory,
fully God but still fully man. We look to
His imminent return with the
kingdom of God,
by which He will
reign over the earth in the millennium and in
eternity.
We confess that the
third of the Trinity, the Spirit, is equally God.
All that the Father has and is, is expressed by the Son, and
all that the Son has and is, is realized as the Spirit.
We further believe that
mankind is in need of God's salvation. Though
we were absolutely unable to fulfill the heavy demands of God's righteousness, holiness, and glory,
Christ fulfilled all the requirements through His death on the cross.
Because of Christ's death,
God has forgiven us of our sins,
justified us,
making Christ our righteousness, and
reconciled us to Himself.
Based on Christ's redemption,
God regenerates the redeemed with His Spirit to consummate His salvation,
that they may become His children. Now
possessing God's life and
nature, the believers
enjoy a daily salvation in His Body in this age and
the eternal salvation in
the coming age and
in eternity.
In eternity we will dwell with God in the New Jerusalem,
the consummation of God's salvation of His elect.
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