The Biblical Creed-Statements of Faith

I. God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

1. I believe in the Holy Trinity: one God in three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—equal in glory, majesty, and power.

2. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.

3. I believe all things were made by Jesus Christ, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

4. I believe in Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, fully God and fully man.

5. I believe He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary.

6. I believe in the virgin birth as a miracle of God’s power, fulfilling prophecy.

7. I believe Jesus bodily ascended into heaven.

8. I believe Jesus Christ now intercedes for the saints at the right hand of God.

9. I believe His kingdom is everlasting, and of His reign there shall be no end.

10.  I believe in the Holy Spirit, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son.

11.  I believe the Holy Spirit is fully God, one with the Father and the Son, sharing in the glory of the Godhead.

12.  I believe the Spirit inspired the Scriptures, convicts of sin, regenerates, indwells, and empowers believers.

II. Salvation and the Christian Life

13.  I believe all people, except Jesus, have sinned and stand guilty before God.

14.  I believe Jesus lived a sinless life, proclaimed the good news, suffered, died, was buried, and rose again.

15.  I believe Jesus Christ was crucified under Pontius Pilate, suffered, and was buried.

16.  I believe He descended to the grave, and rose again the third day.

17.  I believe in the substitutionary atonement of Christ, who died in our place.

18.  I believe salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

19.  I believe in the one true Church, the body of Christ.

20.  I believe in Holy Communion, the Lord’s Supper, as a remembrance of Christ’s death until He comes.

21.  I believe in two baptisms: one of water as a testimony of a changed life, and one of the Spirit by which we are born again.

22.  I believe in the authority of the Holy Scriptures, the Word of God.

23.  I believe God revealed His holiness and justice in the Old Covenant, and that in the New Covenant through Jesus Christ’s blood, He grants forgiveness of sins, a new heart, and everlasting life.

24.  I believe in the remission of sins and justification of sinners through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

25.  I believe in regeneration by the Holy Spirit, whereby those who repent and believe the gospel are made new creatures in Christ.

26.  I believe in sanctification, the ongoing work of God by which believers are conformed to the image of Christ, growing in holiness by the Spirit’s power.

27.  I believe in the perseverance of the saints, that true believers will endure to the end.

28.  I believe in the Great Commission, that the Church is sent to make disciples of all nations.

29.  I believe in the communion of saints, the fellowship of all true believers in Christ.

30.  I believe in the reality of spiritual warfare, that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness.

III. The Last Things (Eschatology and Eternal Hope)

31.  I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.

32.  I believe Christ will return in glory to judge the living and the dead.

33.  I believe in a new heaven and a new earth, the eternal dwelling place of God with His people.