Inspiration of the Bible

We believe that the Bible in the original writings, consisting of sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, was given by divine inspiration and is the Word of God (II Tim. 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-21); that it is authoritative, infallible, and is the only supreme and ultimate authority for faith and practice (Acts 17:11; Isaiah 8:20).

God

We believe that there is only one God, eternally existent in three Persons as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19; I John 5:7). These three are equally God, complete in every form of deity, and yet they each maintain their distinctiveness as individual Persons of the Godhead (John 16:13-16; I Peter 1:2).

1. God the Father: We believe in God the Father, Creator and Sustainer of all things visible and invisible (Gen. 1:1; Ex. 20:2-3), Who is true in holiness (Lev. 19:2), eternal in power (Rom. 1:20), infinite in love (I John 4:8-9), perfect in justice (Rom. 3:26), absolute in truth (Titus 1:2), and is eternally existent, the Alpha and Omega (Rev. 22:13).
2. God the Son: We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 8:58), that He is the only begotten Son of God (John 1:14), that He was born of a virgin (Matt. 1:18,22-23), that He lived a perfect, sinless life (II Cor. 5:21), that He suffered and died making a vicarious atonement for sinful man through His shed blood (I Pet. 1:19; 2:24), and that He rose bodily from the grave (Matt. 28:6), ascended to the Father (Acts 1:9-11), and sits at the right hand of the Father (Heb. 1:3).
3. God the Spirit: We believe in the deity of the Holy Spirit, Who is equal with God the Father and God the Son (Acts 5:3-4; Matt. 28:19). His deity is expressed by His attributes such as: omniscience (I Cor. 2:11; Isa. 40:13), omnipresence (Ps. 139:7), omnipotence (Job 33:4); and it is expressed by His actions/works such as: creation (Gen. 1:2), inspiration of the Scriptures (II Pet. 1:21), and in begetting Christ (Luke 1:35). His ministry today is to convict the world of sin (John 16:8-11), to administer the new birth (John 3:6), to seal the believer (Eph. 1:13-14), and to indwell and fill the believer for righteous living (Eph. 5:18; Rom. 8:8-14).