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ARTICLES OF FAITH
Temple Baptist Church and School
- We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired of God, inerrant and preserved, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, and born of Mary, a virgin, and is true God and true man.
- We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners in thought, word, and deed.
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
- We believe in the "Eternal Security" of the believer; that it is impossible for one born into the family of God ever to be lost.
- We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there as High Priest and Advocate.
- We believe in "that blessed hope" -- The personal, premillennial, pretribulation, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when the church will be "gathered together unto Him."
- We believe in the literal fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of the Scriptures which foretell and assure the future regeneration and restoration of Israel as a nation.
- We believe that all who receive, by faith, the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
- We believe that the Scriptural ordinances of the church are Baptism and the Lord's Supper and are to be administered by the local church; the Baptism, by immersion, should be administered to believers only, as a symbol of their belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and as a testimony to the world of that belief and of their death, burial, and resurrection with Him; show forth His death, "till He comes."
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