My Beliefs
1. The Scriptures:
I believe in the Divine inspiration of the Scriptures. I believe that scriptures are the supreme and final authority in faith and life. There are only 39 Old Testament and 27 New Testament Books in the Bible. I believe that the Word of God has been divinely preserved in the 1611 King James Version for the English Speaking people.
2. God:
When it comes to the Trinity I believe that God is the Father. The Sovereign Creator and Sustainer and Ruler of the universe. God is eternal. He always has been and always will be forever and ever!
3. The Person and Work of Christ:
We see that the Scriptures talk of Christ as the Lamb who came to take away the sins of the World! (John 1:29) I also believe that Christ is eternal. He has always been part of the Trinity of the Godhead and always will be part of it (Genesis 1:26). Christ was born of the Virgin Mary. Christ came as a servant and one who was humbled in taking up the cross for you and me. He lived a sinless life while here on the earth. He died on a cross but three days later was resurrected from the grave with the same body in which He was crucified. Jesus will come back to this earth in power and glory to rule and judge this earth and establish His millennial Kingdom!
4. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit:
When a believer comes to know Christ as their own personal Savior and Lord, the Holy spirit at that time indwells them forever. The Holy Spirit came to seal, to baptize believers into the family of God, teaches, guides, gives power and sanctifies the believer. He is a person that is part of the Godhead and he is not just a “thing” or an “it.” He is a person that can be grieved and quenched when the believers are not living within the ways that the Word of God has laid out for them.
5. Salvation and Security of the Believer:
One who believes must be saved by the grace of God and the shed blood that Christ shed so long ago. Salvation is not by works! It takes the Holy Spirit’s convicting and convincing to draw the believer to the cross where they can have eternal life. When the believer is saved they can never lose the gift of Salvation that was given so freely to them from God!
6. The Church:
The church was established by the first century Christians like Paul and other great men of God. The church is to teach doctrine and what the Word of God says. The church is to be kept pure in all ways and not become an organization but to stay an organism.
7. The Ordinances of the Local Church:
The local ordinances of the church are the believer’s baptism by immersion only and the Lord’s Supper.
8. The Personality of Satan:
The knowledge of Satan can be seen in the Word of God. No more or better evidence ever will exist for belief in the personality of Satan. He draws out and tempts those who have come to Salvation in Christ Jesus.
9. The Eternal State:
Those who have repented and have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord have an eternal future prepared for them in the presence of God. They will live eternally in perfect fellowship with God and in a perfect environment. The Lake of Fire is the final punishment for all who reject Christ in this life, “But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not … Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:12,41).
10. The Second Coming of Christ:
To describe this event. The Last Coming is an important component of Christian eschatology, the theology concerning the final events and ultimate purposes of the world.
11. The Millennium:
The term is used to indicate the period of Christ’s reign on the present earth which Revelation 20 foretells. There are many views of this time period that have come about over the years. Premillennialism teaches that the present age increases with evil and ends in judgment at the second advent of Christ, when He will set up his kingdom and reign with righteousness for a thousand years. We the church will reign with him as His bride!
12. The Great Commission:
In Christian tradition, the Great Commission is the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples, that they spread the faith to all the nations of the world. It has become a tenet in Christian theology emphasizing mission work and evangelism. It has been a primary basis for Christian missionary activity. The most familiar version of the Great Commission has been recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 28:16-20: As a missionary, I must live by this command!
13. Ecclesiastical Separation:
When it comes to this subject I have a fear that comes up within me. It is one thing to reach this world with the gospel, but it is quite another thing to lower our standards and truths in order to do so. We are to stand fast in the faith that has been given from God above to hold to the gospel that our independent churches have had. I say go reach the world, but don’t be an embarrassment to the gospel while doing so!
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A. The Ecumenical Movement:
I would be the first one to say that we need unity in America, but the kind of unity that the Ecumenical Movement is pushing is not going to fix this problem! If this nation is to become one nation under God, we as a people are going to have to get back to the Word of God and understand that there are truths and standards in the Word of God that we as a nation must live by. This whole thing of trying to get everyone to just join in and be one world religion is just not Biblical! This movement has taken the Word of God out of its context.
B. The Charismatic:
Charismatic is an umbrella term used to describe those Christians who believe that the manifestations of the Holy Spirit seen in the first century Christian Church, such as healing, miracles, prophecy, are still available to contemporary Christians and ought to be experienced and practiced today. The word charismatic is derived from the Greek word charis (meaning a grace or a gift) which is the term used in the Bible to describe a wide range of supernatural experiences (especially in 1 Corinthians 12-14). The Word of God is complete and we are to live with the guidance of the Holy Spirit through the Word of God!
C. Neo-Evangelicalism
The neo-evangelicals are largely credited with the relative, apparent success of the fundamentalist aim in the English-speaking world — now the name Evangelical has been captured for primary reference to those who at a minimum affirm the fundamental Christian beliefs — but, even so, the fundamentalist name does not apply to the Evangelical movement because of the neo-evangelical division.
D. Neo-Orthodoxy:
Neo-orthodoxy is quite a broad term, but it is mostly used in the sense of “modern contemporary theology” or “liberal theology.” Fundamentally it differs from “orthodoxy” with its approach to the “doctrine of the word.” It is this departure from the orthodox view that has brought it under scrutiny.
I believe that the Bible is the revealed Word of God, which was given by inspiration of God. By inspiration, verbal and mechanical inspiration is meant the Holy Spirit was in full control of the Bible writer, by either verbally dictating everything he was writing or by using the person as tool to work through. This theory of inspiration has the logic conclusion that the original manuscripts are without error or contradiction. Two scriptures that are quoted in support of this view are 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and 2 Peter 1:20. Neo-orthodoxy denies this orthodox approach of inerrancy and inspiration, by saying that inspiration was not given verbally or mechanically, but that the author interpreted the events or word of God, thus writing his interpretation of the word of God. Scripture in its original manuscripts is therefore the words of God in the words of men. A list of discrepancies found in the Bible consisting of either dates or events is given as proof for this view.
But Neo-orthodoxy also drifts even further away from the orthodox view, by denying other elements of the doctrine of the Word; which personally I believe is alarming!
The truth we have is revealed in the word of God; let us not loose it through new revelations and mysticism, neo-orthodoxy.
