The Arms of Mercy Statement of Faith
We Believe:
• That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are divinely inspired
verbally and completely inerrant in the original writings and of supreme
and final authority in all matters of faith and life.
• In
one sovereign God, existing in three persons: Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, perfect in holiness, infinite in
wisdom, unbounded in power, and measureless in love;
that God is the source of all creation and that through
the immediate exercise of His power, all things came
into being.
• That God the Father is the author of eternal salvation, having loved
the world and given His Son for its redemption.
• That Jesus the Messiah was eternally pre-existent and is co-equal with
God the Father; that He took on Himself the nature of man through the virgin
birth so that He possesses both divine and human natures.
• in
His sinless life and perfect obedience to the Law; in
His atoning death, burial, bodily resurrection, ascension
into heaven, high-priestly intercession and His personal
return in power and glory.
• that the Holy Spirit is co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the
Son; that He was active in the creation of all things and continues to be so
in providence; that He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment
and that He regenerates, sanctifies, baptizes, indwells, seals, illumines, guides
and bestows His gifts upon all believers.
• that God created man in His image; that because of the disobedience of
our first parents at the Garden of Eden, they lost their innocence and both they
and their descendants, separated from God, suffer physical and spiritual death
and that all human beings, with the exception of Jesus the Messiah, are sinners
by nature and practice.
• that Jesus the Messiah died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,
as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; that all who believe in Him
are justified, not by any works of righteousness they have done, but by His perfect
righteousness and atoning blood and that there is no other name under heaven
by which we must be saved.
• That Israel exists as a covenant people through whom God continues to
accomplish His purposes and that the Church is an elect people in accordance
with the New Covenant, comprising both Jews and Gentiles who acknowledge Jesus
as Messiah and Redeemer.
• That
Jesus the Messiah will return personally in order to
consummate the prophesied purposes concerning His Kingdom.
• In
the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the
everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting
conscious punishment of the lost.
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