I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Sheol. The third day He rose from the dead. He ascended into Heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Universal Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.I believe that the Holy Scriptures are divinely inspired and are inerrant and infallible, and that the Bible is only composed of the Old and New Testaments, and not the Apocrypha.
I believe in interpreting the Scriptures from a grammatical-historical perspective. The most important rule of interpreting the Scriptures is: "If the literal sense makes sense, seek no other sense." From this one principle, everything else derives.
I believe that the Messiah Yeshua is the Son of God and the Son of Man, and is fully God and fully Man.
I believe that unregenerate mankind is fallen, lost, far from God, perishing, without eternal life, headed to the Second Death and Hell, and in the most desperate need of the salvation provided by God and Messiah Yeshua.
I believe that atonement is possible through God's grace when we place our faith in God and Messiah Yeshua. I believe in salvation by grace alone, and through faith alone.
I believe in Dispensationalism, and that the Lord has revealed different requirements for different peoples at different times. I believe Israel is not the Church, nor the Church, Israel (and yet I have fellowship with Reformed theologians). I believe that the Church is made up of Jews and Gentiles, but Jews remain Jews, and Gentiles remain Gentiles.
I believe in the Trinity - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. I believe that God is Three Persons and yet One in name and nature, deity and essence, character and attributes. I believe there is a distinction of persons - God the Father is not God the Son, and the Spirit is not the Father, for example. I believe while the Holy Spirit is without body, that He is a Person who has mind, emotion, and will. He is not an impersonal force.
