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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, reconciled us to Himself, and justified us by making
Christ our righteousness. 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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2008