What We Believe
WHAT WE BELIEVE
The
Holy Scriptures
WE
BELIEVE the Bible,
the Scriptures of the Old Testament and the New Testament, preserved
for us in the Masoretic text (Old Testament) Textus Receptus (New
Testament) and in the King James Bible, is verbally and plenarily
inspired of God. It is the inspired, inerrant, infallible, and
altogether authentic, accurate and authoritative Word of God,
therefore the supreme and final authority in all things (II Tim.
3:16-17; II Peter 1:21; Rev. 22:18-19).
The
Trinity
WE
BELIEVE in one God
(monotheism), eternally existing in three Persons: the Father, the
Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—the Trinity. They are
co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and
glory, and have the same attributes and perfections (I John 5:7;
Matt. 28:19; Deut. 6:4; II Cor. 13:14; John 14:10, 26).
Jesus
Christ
WE
BELIEVE in the
deity of Jesus Christ, that He was supernaturally begotten by the
Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and is truly, totally God and truly,
totally man (Matt. 1:20-21; Luke 1:35-36; 2:10-11). He is the only
begotten Son of God (John 1:14; 3:16, 18; I John 4:9) and at the same
time God the Son; therefore, the Lord Jesus Christ, sinless,
omnipotent, omniscient, Saviour of sinners, King of kings, and Lord
of lords.
WE BELIEVE in the literal, physical, bodily resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His literal, physical, bodily ascension into Heaven and in His present work there as High Priest, Mediator, and Advocate for us (Heb. 9:24; 10:20-21; I Tim. 2:5-6; I John 2:1, 2).
Man
WE
BELIEVE man was
created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not
only physical death but also that spiritual death which is the
eternal separation from God and an everlasting abode in Hell, that
all human beings are henceforth born with a sinful nature and, in the
case of those who reach the age of moral responsibility, become
sinners by choice and practice, in thought, word, and deed, and that
sin creates a debt which no man can pay for himself (Rom. 3:23; 5:12;
Gen. 1:26-27; I Cor. 11:7).
The
Gospel
WE
BELIEVE the Gospel
is the good news that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for our
sins; that He was buried that He arose alive and triumphant from the
grave and in so doing He made the necessary sacrifice for atonement,
became the Substitute for our redemption, which thereby paid our sin
debt and purchased our salvation for us; and that all who place their
faith in full trust in Him are saved by His shed blood (I Cor.
15:3-4; Col. 1:14; Eph. 1:7; Rom. 5:9; Acts 4:12).
Heaven
and Hell
WE
BELIEVE Heaven is a
real place that is the eternal home of all who by faith claim the
salvation of Christ.
WE BELIEVE Hell is a real place that is the eternal home of all who die without Christ as their Saviour.
WE BELIEVE in the literal, physical, bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost (I Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 20:5-6), the everlasting blessedness of the saved (Heaven) (John 14:1-3; Rev. 21-22), and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost (Hell) (Luke 16:19-31; Rev. 20:11-15).
Satan
WE
BELIEVE Satan is a
real being, a personal devil, that he is the enemy of God, the
‘father of lies,’ the great deceiver of mankind, the
instigator of all false systems of religion, and that both he and all
his followers will ultimately be cast into the lake of fire (II Cor.
11:13-16; Ephesians 2:2; II Cor. 4:3-4; Rev. 20:2).
Creation
WE
BELIEVE that God
created the universe in six literal, twenty-four-hour periods. We
reject evolution, the Gap Theory, the Day-Age Theory, and Theistic
Evolution as unscriptural theories of origin (Gen. 1-2; Exo. 20:11).
Marriage
WE
BELIEVE that the
only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman
(Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; I Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22-23).
WE BELIEVE that men and women are spiritually equal in position before God but that God has ordained distinct and separate spiritual functions for men and women in the home and the church. The husband is to be the leader of the home, and men are to be the leaders (pastors and deacons) of the church (Gen. 3:16; Col. 3:18; I Tim. 2:8-15; 3:4-5,12).
WE BELIEVE that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage. (Ex. 20:14, Heb. 13:4, I Cor. 7:1-5, Mt. 19:4-6).
The
Virgin Birth of Christ
WE
BELIEVE the
Scriptures teach that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a
miraculous manner, born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man was ever
born or can ever be born of woman, and that He is both the Son of God
and God the Son.
The
Way of Salvation
WE
BELIEVE the
Scriptures teach that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace,
through the shed blood and mediatorial offices of the Son of God,
Who, according to the will of the Father, assumed our nature, yet
without sin, honored the Divine Law by His personal obedience, and by
His death made a full atonement for our sins; that having risen from
the dead, He is now enthroned in Heaven and uniting in His wonderful
person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfection. He is every
way qualified to be a suitable, a compassionate and an all-sufficient
Saviour (Eph. 2:5; Matt. 18:11; I John 4:10; I Cor. 3:5-7; Acts
15:11; John 3:16; John 1:1-14; Heb. 4:14; 12:24; Phil. 2:6-7; Heb.
2:9, 14; II Cor. 5:21; Isa. 53:4,5; Heb. 7:25; Col. 2:9).
The
Believer’s Two Natures
WE
BELIEVE every truly
regenerated, born again Christian is saved by the grace of God
through faith placed in Jesus Christ and is thereby awarded a new and
spiritual nature which he did not previously possess.
WE BELIEVE the old nature which we possess from birth is not eradicated but lingers yet within us.
WE BELIEVE it is for this reason that true Christians are not perfect people and they can still sin.
WE BELIEVE the new nature, if nourished properly, should begin to dominate the Christian’s life, and the old nature should be less and less prominent.
The
Second Coming
WE
BELIEVE in “that
blessed hope,” the personal, literal and visible
pretribulational, premillennial return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus
Christ (I Thess. 4:13-18; II Thess. 2:1-3).
WE BELIEVE the second coming will be a two-phased event: first the rapture and then the revelation. The rapture will be followed by a seven-year period of great tribulation on earth (Rev. 4-18). At the end of the Tribulation period, Christ will return to rule and reign on the earth for one thousand grand and glorious years (Rev. 20:4-6).
Why
Only KJV?
We
believe...the Bible, as compiled in the 66 books of both the Old and
New Testament, is the inspired, infallible, and authoritative written
Word of God. Furthermore, We believe that we have the inspired,
infallible, inerrant Word of God preserved in the King James Version
of the Bible for English-speaking people.
Many Christian organizations and websites will openly claim that the Bible is the Word of God, but there are few that will take a stand on exactly which Bible they are talking about. The past century alone has spawned literally hundreds of newer and supposedly "better" Bible translations. Each one of these new versions differs from each other greatly in translation and in content. This statement is proven by the presence of a copyright. To legally earn a copyrighted status for any Bible, that translation must be individually unique and substantially different from any previously written versions. We hope that this raises one all-important question in your mind: "How can all of these modern translations be the inerrant and perfect Word of God if they all say different things?" We believe that there has to be a standard, and that the unwavering, timeless standard for the true Word of God is the King James Version Bible.