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Evangelist & Mrs. Norman R. Stevens
NOTE of INTRODUCTION: These declared positions
are not exhaustive in nature, but hopefully they sufficiently represent our
position on the following doctrines of the Word of God.
BIBLIOLOGY
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We believe that the Bible, which is the 66 books
comprising the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, and that it is the
complete revelation of God to man. |
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We believe God's Word is the verbal, plenary,
completely inspired revelation to man and is inerrant and infallible
throughout in the Original Writings. |
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We believe the Massoretic Hebrew Text for the
Old Testament and the Textus Receptus for the New Testament are the closest to
the Original Manuscripts. Therefore, we strongly recommend the King James
Version because it is an accurate, faithful, preserved, and reliable
translation, which reflects these traditional texts. |
THEOLOGY
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We believe in one God eternally existing in
three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; each being coequal, coeternal,
and coexistent with the other. |
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We believe all three were active in the creation
of our universe, having created the universe, visible and invisible, in six
literal, twenty-four-hour days, beginning with no pre-existing materials. |
CHRISTOLOGY
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We believe in the pre-existence of Christ. |
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We believe Jesus Christ was conceived by the
Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary. |
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We believe Jesus Christ became the
substitutionary atonement for our sins and the sins of all mankind through His
voluntary sacrificial death on the cross of Calvary providing salvation for
every sinner who believes. |
PNEUMATOLOGY
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We believe the Holy Spirit is a Person as
opposed to a force or influence, because He clearly evidences the
characteristics of intellect, emotion, and will. |
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We believe the Holy Spirit is necessary in
salvation because He convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment; and because
He regenerates the unbeliever, and indwells, seals, fills, guides, illumines,
and assures the believer. |
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We believe the Holy Spirit imparts spiritual
gifts to believers for the edification of the body of Christ. |
ANTHROPOLOGY
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We believe man was created in the image and
likeness of God on the sixth day of creation when God breathed the breath of
life into him. |
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We believe man is a tripartite creature,
consisting of body, soul, and spirit. |
HAMARTIOLOGY
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We believe all sin is rebellion (lawlessness)
against God. |
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We believe Adam was created with a will that was
capable of choosing either obedience or disobedience towards God; and,
therefore, he willfully chose to sin, and thus originated a sin nature that
has passed on to all human beings. |
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We believe the sin of Adam resulted immediately
in spiritual death and separation from God and subsequently in physical death. |
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We believe the wages of sin is death (both
physical and spiritual), and all unbelieving men are dead in sin, so all are
deserving of eternal death in the Lake of Fire. |
ANGELOLOGY
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We believe God created an innumerable host of
angels as servants to magnify, worship, and praise God, and to do God's will. |
HELL
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We believe in a literal and genuine place for
the damned called Hell. |
HEAVEN
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We believe in an eternal Heaven for the saved. |
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We believe there are three heavens: the
atmosphere, the galaxies, and paradise where God is. |
SOTERIOLOGY
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We believe salvation was made possible by
Christ's shedding of His blood in His sacrificial death for all mankind on the
cross of Calvary. However, this salvation is applied only to those who
personally repent and receive Jesus as Saviour. |
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We believe man is a free moral agent, and God
does not refuse salvation to any who come to Him. |
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We believe in the eternal security of the
believer. |
ECCLESIOLOGY
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We believe the church is a New Testament
institution in the form of either an actual local assembly of believers, or
the future gathering of all New Testament saints in Heaven. The local church
is a visible assembly of immersed believers assembled in common faith and
fellowship for the purpose of observing the two ordinances and carrying out
the Great Commission. |
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We believe the membership of the local church is
restricted to immersed believers. |
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We believe the Great Commission outlines the
church's method of self-propagation through evangelism, baptism, and training. |
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We believe baptism is immersion of the believer
into water. It symbolizes the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, the
believers death to the old life and subsequent resurrection to newness of
life. |
ESCHATOLOGY
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We believe in the imminent return of Christ,
known as the rapture. This return for believers will be pre-tribulational and
pre-millennial, resulting in the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the
translation of living believers into the presence of the Lord. |
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We believe that, following the rapture, all
believers will be judged at the Judgment Seat of Christ according to their
works following salvation. We believe there will be both rewards and the lack
of rewards based on faithfulness in the Christian life. |
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We believe the Marriage of the Lamb to His bride
follows the Bema of Christ. |
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We believe Christ's return will terminate the
Tribulation when He defeats the Earth's armies at Armageddon, judges the
Nations and sets up His Kingdom. |
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We believe the Millennial reign of Christ will
demonstrate His victorious rule over man on Earth. It will be a time of great
blessing, and Satan will be bound. However, Satan will be loosed at the end of
the Millennium for his final rebellion. Upon being defeated, he will be cast
into the Lake of Fire with those who stand before the Great White Throne. |
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We believe God will then create the New Heavens
and Earth, with the saved living in the presence of God forever.
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