Calvary
Bible Church Articles of Faith
We Believe In:
- ONE GOD: infinite, eternal, and
unchangeable, subsisting in a mysterious, eternal trinity
of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (Matthew 28:19; 2
Corinthians 13:14).
- ONE WORD: the Scriptures of the Old and
New Testaments, all given by inspiration of God, and our
only infallible rule of faith and practice (2 Timothy
3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:16-21).
- ONE CONDEMNATION: there being one
difference, for all have sinned and come short of the
glory of God (Romans 3:10-26; 6:23; John 3:36; Ezekiel
18:4).
- ONE SAVIOR: the Lord Jesus Christ, God
manifest in the flesh; in His essential deity, virgin
birth, sinless life, vicarious death physical and bodily
resurrection from the grave, and His ascension into
Heaven from whence He shall return personally and
premillenially to set up an earthly kingdom (John 1:1-14;
14:9; Isaiah 7:14; Revelation 19: 19-20; Acts 3: 12-26;
Hebrews 9:24; 1 Corinthians 15: 12-28; 1 Thessalonians 4:
13-18; Acts 1; Revelation 3:10; 20: 1-6; Titus 2: 11-14).
- ONE ATONEMENT FOR SIN: made by Jesus
Christ in a substitutionary and sacrificial death on the
Cross, sufficient for all, adapted to all, taking every
legal obstacle out of the way of all, and on these
grounds to be offered to all, and that all must be born
again or be forever lost (Hebrews 2:10; 5:10; 2
Corinthians 5:18-21; John 11:50; Mark 10:45).
- ONE SPIRIT: God, the Holy Ghost, through
whose sovereign agency in regeneration, the soul, dead in
sin, is made alive in Christ, and through whose sovereign
agency in sanctification the soul is changed more and
more into the divine image from glory to glory (John
16:7-15, 2 Corinthians 3:18)
- TWO NATURES OF THE BELIEVER: that every
saved person, possesses two natures, with provision made
for victory of the new nature over the old nature through
the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and that all
claims to the eradication of the old nature in this life
are unscriptural (Romans 6:13; 8:12-13; Galatians
5:16-25; Ephesians 4: 22-24; Colossians 3:10; 1 Peter 1:
14-16; 1 John 3:5-9).
- ONE CHURCH: Which is the body and the
espoused bride of Christ, and a spiritual organism made
up of all born-again persons (Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:25-27;
I Corinthians 12:12-14; 2 Corinthians 11:2): further that
the establishment and continuance of local churches is
clearly taught and defined in the New Testament (Acts
14:27; 20:17; 28:23; 1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1: 5-11).
- TWO DESTINIES: Heaven where the souls of
the redeemed are absent from the body and present with
the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first
resurrection, when soul and body are reunited to be
glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 24:43; Revelation
20: 4-6; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 3:21; 1
Thessalonians 4: 16-17); and Hell where the souls of
unbelievers remain, after death in conscious misery until
the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited
they shall appear before the Great White Throne Judgment,
and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire to suffer
everlasting conscious torment (Luke 16:19-26; Matthew 25:
41-46; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Mark 9:43-48;
Revelation 20: 11-15).
- SATAN: both tempter and accuser who exists
in personality and reality (Job 1-2; Revelation 12:9-10;
Matthew 4:2-11; John 8:44; Ephesians 6:12).
- TWO PURPOSES: that of winning precious
souls to the Lord Jesus Christ in accordance with our
great commission, and that of perfecting the saints
(Matthew 28: 19-20; Ephesians 4:11-24).
- SEPARATION: that all the saved should live
in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their
Savior and Lord, and that separation from all religious
apostasy, all worldly and sinful practices, pleasures,
and associations is commanded of God (2 Timothy 3: 1-5;
Romans 12: 1-2; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 7:1).
- BAPTISM: the immersion in water of a
believer in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, to show forth our faith in the crucified,
buried, and risen Savior, with its effects in our death
to sin and resurrection to a new life (Matthew 3:13-17;
Acts 8: 36-39; Romans 6:2-4).