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WE BELIEVE that the LORD is the One True
God, the Creator of all that Is,
eternally existing in three persons: the Deity or Godhead
consisting of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, fully
Divine, and the Virgin Born Son of Man, fully Human;
that He existed uncreated with the Father before time began,
was born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, and died,
shedding His blood on the cross as The Sacrifice for Human
Sin, to ransom us to God; That He was buried but rose
Bodily from the dead on the third day, and ascended to the
Right Hand of the Father, where He ever lives to make
intercession for Us.
WE BELIEVE in the Holy Spirit, Who convicts sinners of their Sin and
Who
lives inside all Christians, empowering them, as they yield
to Him, to live lives pleasing to Christ, to confess and forsake
their sins, and to tell the lost of God’s saving love.
WE BELIEVE that man was created by God in His own image, but that
because of Adam’s Sin, all people have become Sinners,
Condemned in the eyes of a Holy God, and Separated from
Him.
WE BELIEVE that a person is saved from the Condemnation of Sin, and
Born into the Family of God, when he, repentant of his sin,
believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, calling on Him to be his
Savior.
WE BELIEVE in The Church, made up of all who have been saved by
faith
in Christ; and that God has established local churches to
preach the gospel, make disciples of all nations, and encourage each
other to obey Christ’s commandments; That everyone who is Saved,
and only those who are saved, should be Baptized by immersion as a
testimony to what Christ has
done in their lives; and that Believers should celebrate the
Lord’s Supper in Remembrance of Him until He comes.
WE BELIEVE in created spiritual beings: Good Angels, who do God’s
will;
and Satan, the author of All sin, who, with his Demons, opposes God.
WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ will Come Again for His Saints; the
dead in
Christ shall rise first and then we which are alive and remain
shall meet Him with them in the clouds to be ever with the
Lord; we believe that the lost will be raised from the dead
in the Last Day; that Everyone’s work will be Judged by
Jesus Christ; That those who have rejected Christ will suffer
eternal punishment, with the Devil and his Angels, in the
Lake of Fire; and that the Elect, those saved by God’s
grace, will live forever with Him in Heaven.
WE BELIEVE that the BIBLE is the Perfect and Complete WORD OF GOD;
that Every Word of it is Inspired by God, All of it was written
down without any errors by its original writers,
and that God has Preserved it in its entirety for Every
Generation including Ours Today.
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Charlestown
Independent Church