Beliefs

There is only one true God, “a maximally great being”, Yahweh the God of the Bible, and is tripersonal: God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit. All three divine persons are coeternal and coequal in being and essense, but distinct in personhood. All other concepts of God fall short of maximal greatness and are therefore false gods, a.k.a. idols.

Jesus Christ is God. The divine Logos put on flesh being conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin as a real historical human being named Jesus. He alone lived a sinless life and fulfilled the Law of Moses. After His public ministry, Jesus took our sins upon Himself being tortured and murdered via Roman crucifixion to reconcile mankind to the Father, and He defeated sin and death by being resurrected to life three days later. Jesus is the Christ, the one and only mediator between God and man because He is both fully God and fully man, having two complete natures, one divine and one human. Jesus is the only way to the Father in heaven and eternal life comes by Him alone.

The Holy Spirit is God. He is often referred to as the “third person of the Trinity.” Contradicting the false beliefs that the Holy Spirit is not a person but an “active force”, “energy” or “Divine Science”, Scripture always refers to the Holy Spirit using masculine personal pronouns (He, Him, Himself) proving His divine personhood.  Likewise, disproving the false view that the Holy Spirit is a created being, Scripture describes Him as coequal and coeternal with the Father and Jesus sharing all the same divine attributes. He is the Helper who convicts the world, intercedes for us (Romans 8:27), guide us into all truth (John 16:13), teaches us all things, and brings to our remembrance all that Jesus said (John 14:26). The Holy Spirit was involved in creation, and is involved in the salvation and sanctification of Christians while simultaneously drawing the lost to Jesus Christ through conviction.

The Bible, the Canon of Scripture, which consists of the 66 divinely inspired books, is the sole divinely inspired, authoritative source for Christian faith and practice. The Bible is unique, true, verifiable, complete, inerrant, infallible, and powerful. It was penned by 40+ human authors, in 3 languages, across 3 continents, over 1500 years and yet there is 1 theme, about 1 person (Jesus Christ), inspired by 1 divine Author: God.

Christianity is the only true and verifiable, completely logical, consistent, and coherent worldview. Christianity is a faith-based lifestyle of sanctification, wholehearted obedience, and personal loving fellowship with Jesus Christ lived out daily by rejecting sin and faithfully doing God’s will. With this understood, according to Scripture, a Christian is a disciple and servant of Jesus Christ who lives by faith, practices righteousness, keeps Jesus’ commands, has crucified the flesh, abstains from sin, is led by the Spirit, imitates Christ, & perfects holiness in the fear of God. A Christian is a saint who has been justified, is being sanctified & after persevering to the end will be glorified in heaven.

All sin is lawlessness, and all unrighteousness is sin. It is the conscious transgression of God's moral law and the intentional rebellion against God Himself that results in spiritual sickness, death, and ultimately eternal destruction separated from God and everything good and holy unless that sin is atoned for by Jesus Christ. The following are common sins according to Scripture: evil thoughts, murder (including the unborn), fornications, adultery, greed, deceit, lying, sensuality, slander, gossip, pride, foolishness,  idolatry, homosexuality (LGBTQ+), stealing, coveting, drunkenness, sorcery, outbursts of anger, dissensions, and selfishness.  

We live in a fallen world where death is inevitable but not the end of existence. Human beings are spirits living inside a temporal body. At the point of death the body ceases to live, but the spirit immediately goes to one of two eternal destinations - there is no such thing as "pergatory". Pure spirits recreated in Christ Jesus (Christians) go immediately to God in Heaven for eternity, while the defiled spirits of the unrepentant enemies of God (sinners) immediately go to hell for eternity completely separated from God and everything good.

Salvation is a gift and a process. The gift comes through God's grace and is received by faith in Jesus Christ. The process is life-long beginning with Justification at conversion.  Sanctification throughout life, and finally Glorification in heaven. These three categories coincide with being saved from sin in 3 senses: the guilt of sin, the power of sin, and the presense and possibility of sin respectively.