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We Belive in
One God, existing in three persons:: God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit -- the same in substance
attributes and essence and equal in power and glory. God is
both infinite and personal. The Bible. Since God
is personal He has spoken. The Bible is the Word of God. It
contains no errors as given originally, and it is the single
written authority for our lives not only in matters of faith
and practice but also in every area to which it speaks, including
history, geography and science.
Creation and the Fall. Man was created morally
good by God, male and female in God's image, but man freely
chose to sin and thereby plunged himself and mankind into spiritual
death and separation from God. This was an actual historic event
with detrimental consequences to man both spiritually and physically
including his moral and volitional abilities. The fall also
had detrimental consequences to the physical universe and the
environment and introduced for the first time suffering, death,
and natural disasters.
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh,
as the only savior of men. The death of Christ was given as
the substitution for what we, who are believers, deserve due
to our sin. His obedient life and substitutionary death accomplished
redemption from the fall and salvation for those who believe.
Whereas the first Adam failed, Christ as the second Adam succeeded
and secured a spiritual people of His own. Christ also redeemed
the physical universe and the environment, but these will not
be re-created until His second coming as "the new heavens
and the new earth".
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead. This historic time-space event not only completed
His work of salvation on the cross but demonstrated the truth
of His claims and of His Word to a watching world and the certainty
of His second coming to judge the world and take believers unto
Himself into eternity. God’s gift of
salvation. Men and women cannot earn salvation; rather
they receive salvation as a free gift by grace alone, through
faith alone, in Christ alone. Men and women receive this gift
through faith involving repentance leading to a changed heart,
attitude, and behavior. This change is done by God’s Spirit
and will continue throughout a believer's life but will not
be completed until we receive new resurrected bodies like Christ's
upon his return at His second coming. Saving faith is a free
gift from God to those of His sovereign choosing. The
sovereignty of God. God is in control of, and has authority
over all events of the world and our personal lives notwithstanding
our human responsibility and accountability to God and the fact
that our choices do make a difference both in time and in eternity.
See: Statement
of Faith of Campus Crusade for Christ and the Westminster
Confession of Faith. |
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