More Than Conquerors Bible Institute
Statement of Faith and Doctrinal Policy
We believe in:
1. We believe that the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing so as to be the final and sufficient rule of faith and practice (2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21).
2. We believe that there is only one living and true God, infinite in every excellence; that in the unity of the Godhead there are three personal distinctions—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—one in substance and equal in every divine perfection (Ex. 20:2-3; 1 Cor. 8:6).
3. We believe in the absolute Deity of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; that He was divine as no other man can be, being very God of very God, existing from eternity co-equal with the Father and the Spirit; that He never ceased to be God for one instant and that His humiliation did not consist in laying aside His Deity; that as man He was miraculously begotten of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary (John 1:1-2; 1 John 5:20; Matt. 1:20).
4. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, equal with the Father and Son and of the substance and nature; that He convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment, bears witness to the truth, is the Agent of the New Birth and that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses to, sanctifies and helps the believer, indwelling every true Child of God from the time of their acceptance of Christ as Savior (2 Cor. 13:14; John 14:16; Romans 8:14-27).
5. We believe that God created the heavens and the earth, including all life, “each after its own kind”, according to the Genesis account of creation, and this was by the direct act of God, and not the process of evolution (Genesis 1-2; Col. 1:16-17; John 1:3).
6. We believe that man, in the person of the first Adam, was created in the image of God in innocence but by voluntary transgression fell into sin thus plunging the whole race into condemnation and death, so that now all mankind is born in sin and shaped in iniquity and become practical sinners with the first expression of personal choice, not by constraint, but by choice and so are without excuse before God (Genesis 3; Rom. 5:10-19; Ps. 51:5; Rom. 1:20-21).
7. We believe that the only escape from the condemnation of sin is through the atonement wrought by Jesus Christ, when He voluntarily took upon Him a human body and nature, yet without sin, and by His suffering, death, and resurrection made full satisfaction to the justice of God for the sin of man, that the blessings of this salvation are given on the grounds of grace to all who believe and confess that it is the immediate duty of all to prove these offers of mercy (John 1:1-3, 14; 3:1-7; Hebrews 10:4-14; Acts 16:30-33).
8. We believe that faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ is the only condition of salvation from sin and that this salvation is wholly by grace; that no works, however good, make that salvation more secure (Acts 16:31; Titus 3:5-7; Ephesians 2:8,9; Romans 10:9-13).
9. We believe that all who take Christ as their Savior are born from above and are eternally secure in Christ. This assurance is based solely upon the Word of God (2 Timothy 1:12; Romans 8:35-39; 1 Corinthians 3:13-15).
10. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present ministry there as our High Priest and advocate, whence He sent the Holy Spirit to indwell the believer (John 20; Acts 1:3-9; I Corinthians 15:3-20; Hebrews 4:14-16).
11. We believe in the unity of all true believers in what is called the Body of Christ, (also called The Bride) and that all believers, both Jew and Gentile, are added to This body by the receiving of Jesus Christ as personal Savior.
12. We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked, that only through faith are we justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and sanctified by the Spirit of God, and are truly righteous in God’s esteem (Matt. 3:18, Rom. 6:17-23; Matt. 25:34-41; Luke 6:25; John 8:21; Acts 8:36-39; Rom. 6:3-5; I Cor. 11:23-32; Acts 2; Ephesians 1:21).
13. We believe in the bodily, personal, pre-millennial and pre-tribulation return of Jesus Christ; that He will come before the seven-year tribulation period to catch away His Bride, coming only into the air, and that He will come with His Bride at the close of the tribulation to judge the living nations and to set up His kingdom (I Thess. 4:13-18; Matt. 25:31-46; Rev. 19:11-21).
14. We believe in the resurrection of the bodies of the dead; that believers who sleep In Jesus will be raised at the coming of Christ for His Bride and caught up with transformed living saints to meet the Lord in the air, and that the wicked dead will be raised at the close of the Millennial Kingdom and stand in their bodies at the Great White Throne Judgment to receive their final doom (John 5:21-30)
15. We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the interests and good order of human society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored, and obeyed, except in things opposed to the will of God and the Lord Jesus Christ who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the coming Prince of the Kings of the earth (Rom. 13:1-17; II Sam. 23:3; Es. 18:2; Acts 23:5; 5:20; 4:19,20; Dan. 3:17,18).