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Bible Believers Baptist Church Doctrinal Statement
Not hoping to press any individual dogma upon those who are interested in this local church ministry, we believe that there are several essentials of Faith needed to fellowship with us under Truth. These points of Faith are not negotiable and are predicated upon the Word of GOD. There can be only one truth and we believe this truth is revealed to the race through the Bible (the KJV). Therefore there can be no other position to take...we stand here by HIS Grace and make no other claim. A statement of the Articles of Faith for BBBC are as follows: 1- "We believe the study of Scripture is the only way to know the will, ways and works of God and we can know these
by study" (2 Tim. 2:15). 2- "We believe in the final authority, infallibility, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible as the Word of God and that the Bible is the all-sufficient rule of Practice and Faith" (Psalm 119:140, 160; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17). And that it is preserved for us in English with the King James Version of the Bible (AV 1611) (Psalm 12:6-7) These truths are accepted in whole with the support of Scripture." (Psa. 119:9) 3- "We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection" (Job 22:21; 1 John 5:7-8). 4- "We believe the Eternal SON of GOD became incarnate in the LORD JESUS CHRIST" (John 1:1, 14). 5- "We believe in the personal and imminent second coming of Christ." (John 14:3; 1 Thes. 4:16). 6- "We believe man, in the first Adam, was created in the image and likeness of GOD but voluntarily fell from his sinless (Innocent) state, the result being that all mankind are sinners" (Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:6-24; Ezek. 16:22; Rom. 5:12, 19). 7- "We believe that, for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential." (John 3:7). 8- "We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life." (Rom. 5:1-5). 9- "We believe in water baptism by immersion for believers." (Rom. 6:4). 10- "We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life in the everlasting, conscious blessedness of the redeemed in Heaven, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation to the everlasting, conscious punishment of the unregenerate in Hell" (Psa. 9:17; Isa. 14:15; Dan. 12:2; Matt. 28:1-7; Luke 16:23; John 11:25; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor. 15:42-58; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; Rev. 20:14). 11- "We believe in the Genesis account of Creation and reject the humanistic teaching of the theory of evolution in whole or in part" (Gen. Ch. 1-2). 12- "We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire" (Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph.6:10-17; Rev. 20:10). 13- "We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ, the last Adam" (Matt. 1:18-20; 1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22); the deity of Jesus Christ (John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19); the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe" (Isa. 53:6; Heb.2:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2) and the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age. This event will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous shall enter into the heavenly age" (John 14:1-6; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; 2 Thes. 2:8; Rev. 19; Rev. 20:4-6; Rev. 20:11-15; Rev. 21:8). 14- "We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches" (Luke 24:49; John 14:16-17; Acts 1:4-5, 8; Acts 2:1-4). 15- "We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the requisites to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 13:3-5; John 3:16-18; Acts 20:21; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:8, 9), and that the Holy Spirit calls and convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every believer" (John 3:6; John 16:8, 9; Rom. 8:9-11, 29-30; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Eph. 4:30; Titus 3:5). 16- "We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish" (John 3:36; John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Rom. 8:35-39; Heb. 10:39; 1 Peter 1:5). 17- "We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient" (Matt. 16:27; Matt. 25:14-23; John 1:12; Heb. 12:5-11; 2 John 8; Rev. 22:12). 18- "We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ. Each church is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it. We believe that He promised the perpetuity of His churches" (Matt. 4:18-22; Matt. 16:18; Mark 1:14-20; John 1:35-51; Eph. 3:21). 19- "We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Scriptural baptism is the immersion of believers in water, administered by the authority of a New Testament church. The Lord's Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance" (Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12, 38; Rom. 6:4; 1 Cor. 5:11-13; 1 Cor. 11:1-2, 17-20, 26). 20- "We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and under control of the local churches" (Matt. 20:25-28). 21- "We believe that Jesus Christ alone is the head of the church and that all Christian churches should be free
to worship without interference from the government" (Eph. 1:22). BBBC 607 Matthews Street, Sanford, NC 27330
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