STATEMENT OF FAITH
for The John Ankerberg Show
We believe in the Scripture of the Old and
New Testaments as inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and
that they are the supreme and final authority in faith and life.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in
three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by
the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.
We believe that man was created in the image
of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also
that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings
are born with a sinful nature and, in the case of those who reach moral
responsibility, become sinners in thought, word and deed.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died
for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and
substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified on the
ground of His shed blood.
We believe in the resurrection of the
crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into heaven and His present life
there for us as a High Priest and Advocate.
We believe that all who receive by
repentance and faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit,
and become children of God.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the
unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting
punishment of the lost.
