Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6)
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (I John 1:9)
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners and can fully redeem and powerfully use all believers. (I Timothy 1:15)
God “is patient, not wanting any to perish but everyone to come to repentance.”
(II Peter 3:9)
All scripture is “God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” (II Timothy 3:16)
The divine Trinity—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—eternally co-existing, equal in essence and attributes, yet distinct in office and activity. (Deuteronomy 6:4, Matthew 28:18–20)
God the Father is perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom and measureless in might and power. Further, we rejoice because He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men; the He hears and answers their prayers, and that He saves from sin, death and judgment all who come to Him in the blessed name and perfect merits of His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. (John 17; John 3:16)
Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, in His pre-existence, His virgin birth, His incarnation, His sinless life, His miracles, his substitutionary atoning death on the cross, His bodily resurrection from the grave, His high priestly work in Heaven, and His personal pre-tribulational rapture of the church and His pre-millennial return to earth to set up His kingdom. (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18–25; Luke 24; John 1:1–3; John 1:14; John 1:18; John 14:1–3; Acts 1:5–11; I Corinthians 15:1–58; I Thessalonians 4:13–18; 2 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 4:14–16; Hebrews 7:26)
The Holy Spirit is a divine person, equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in the creation; that in His relation to the unbelieving world He restrains the evil one until God’s purpose is fulfilled; that He convicts of sin and of righteousness and of judgment; that He bears witness to the truth of the gospel in preaching and testimony; that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies, fills and helps the believer. (John 14:16,17; John 14:26; John 15:26–27; John 16:8–11; John 16:13; Ephesians 1:13,14; Ephesians 5:18; II Thessalonians 2:7–13)
Every believer in Christ is the “temple of the Holy Spirit.” (I Corinthians 6:19)
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