Borrowed from Central Baptist Church, Greeneville, TN: A Fundamental Independent Baptist church
1. We believe the Scriptures of the Old and the New
Testaments as verbally inspired by God and without error in the original
writings: that the Bible is reliable in science, history, and every
other matter it discussed; and that the Bible is supreme and final
authority in faith and life. (Sola Scriptura)
2. We believe in one Triune God, externally existing in three Persons:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; co-eternal in being, co-identical in
nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and
perfections.
Exodus 20:2, 3 I Corinthians 8:6 Matthew
28:19, 20 II Corinthians 13:14
3. We believe in God the Father, perfect in holiness, infinite in
wisdom, measureless in power; that He concerns Himself mercifully in the
affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from
eternal death and Hell all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.
Psalm 22:3 John 17:11 Psalm 147:5
I John 3:20 Matthew 19:26 John 3:16 John 14:5
I Timothy 2:5 Psalm 65:2 Hebrews 11:6
Matthew 6:26,28-30 Romans 5:8
4. We believe in the absolute Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; His
eternal existence as God, co-equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit;
His incarnation by means of the virgin birth; His sinlessness; His
vicarious death through the shedding of His blood as an atonement for
the remission of our sins; His literal bodily resurrection from the
dead; His ascension; His present high priestly ministry in Heaven for
Believers; and His Personal return to earth.
I John 5:20 John 1:18 John 14:29 Hebrews
1:8 Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:18-25 Luke 1:26-35 I Peter 2:22
Romans 3:25 Hebrews 9:14 Luke 24:36-43 Acts 1:9,11 Luke 24:51
Hebrews 8:1,2 Acts 10:40,41 I John 2:1 I
Thessalonians 4:16
5. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person, co-equal with the
Father and the righteousness, and judgment; that he bears witness to the
Truth; that He is the Agent of the new birth; that He baptizes all true
believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sanctifying all of
them, sealing and thus securing them unto the day of redemption; that He
endues, guides, teaches, and helps believers; and that it is the
privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit, the
evidence being soul winning power and not speaking in tongues.
Matthew 28:19 II Corinthians 13:14 Acts 5:3,4
6. We believe that God created the heavens and the earth, including all
life, each after its own species, by the direct act and not by the
process of evolution.
Genesis 1 & 2 Colossians 1:16,17 John 1:3
7. We believe that man, in the person of the first Adam, was created in
the image of God, in innocence under the law of his Maker, but by reason
of his voluntary sin, fell from his high and holy state; that as a
result, the whole race plunged into condemnation and death, so that now
all human beings are born with a sinful nature; and that all who reach
the age of moral responsibility become willful sinners in thought, work
and deed, and so are without excuse before God.
Genesis 1:26,27 Genesis 3 Romans 5:10-19
Psalm 51:5 Romans 1:18-32 Romans 3:10-23
8. We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace through
faith in the blood sacrifice, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus
Christ; that all who receive Him are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and
become children of God; that no rite, ceremony, or work can avail one
whit for the sinner’s salvation or make the believer’s salvation more
secure; that Christ is the only and all-sufficient Savior, and all who
are truly saved are kept forever.
Ephesians 2:8,9 Titus 3:5-7 John 5:24 John 1:12
Romans 10:9-13 Acts 16:31 Acts 4:12 John
10:28,29 II Timothy 1:12 Romans 8:35-39
Philippians 1:6
9. We believe that the blessings of salvation are made free to all by
the Gospel; that it is the immediate duty of all to accept them by a
cordial, penitent, and obedient faith; and that nothing prevents the
salvation of the greatest sinner on earth but his own inherent depravity
and voluntary rejection of the Gospel, which rejection involves him in
an aggravated condemnation.
John 3:16-21 I Timothy 1:15 Hebrews 7:25
Revelation 22:17
10. We believe that every saved person possesses two natures; that he
has the old nature for the duration of his earthly life; but that
provision is made for victory of the new nature over the old nature
through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Romans 7:15-25 Romans 6:11-14 Philippians
4:7-14 Philippians 3:7-1
11. We believe that sanctification for the believer is immediate, upon
acceptance of Christ as Savior, and Progressive, continuing to the end
of earthly life; and that the progressive phase of sanctification is
carried on in the hearts of believers by the presence and power of the
Holy Spirit in the continual use of the appointed means, especially
study of God’s Work, self-examination, self-denial, faithfulness in and
through a fundamental, local church, through prayer and soul winning.
I Corinthians 1:2 I Corinthians 6:11 I Thessalonians
3:12,13 Hebrews 10:10,14 II Peter 3:18 I Thessalonians
4:1-12 Ephesians 4:11-16 Hebrews 10:25
12. We believe that the saved are called into a
life of separation from religious apostasy, and from all worldly and
sinful pleasures, practices, and associations.
Romans 12:1,2 I John 2:15-17 II John 7-11 Romans
16:17,18 Ephesians 5:11 II Corinthians 6:14-18 I
Thessalonians 5:22
13. We believe that the local New Testament church is composed of
regenerated baptized believers, voluntarily united together for the
purpose of worship, edification, observing the ordinances, fellowship,
and service; that the officers of the local church are pastor and
deacons, who qualifications, claims, and duties are clearly defined in
the Scriptures; that the true mission of the church is the faithful
witnessing of Christ to all men as we have opportunity in the local
community and unto the uttermost parts of the earth; that the local
church has the absolute right of self government, free from interference
of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations, religious or
political; that the one and only superintendent is Christ, through the
Holy Spirit; that it is scriptural for true churches to cooperate with
each other in contending for the faith and for the furtherance of the
Gospel, with each local church as the sole judge of the measure and
method of its cooperation; and that on all matters of membership, policy
of government, discipline, benevolence, the will of the local church is
final.
Acts 2:41-47 Romans 1:7 Colossians 1:2
Acts 4:4 I Corinthians 1:2 Hebrews 10:25
Acts 20:7 Acts11:26 Philippians 1:1 I Timothy 3:1-16
Titus 1:5-8 Hebrews 13:7, 17I I Peter 5:1-5 Acts
6:1-8 Matthew 28:19-20 Acts 1:8 Ephesians 1:22,23
Colossians 1:18 Ephesians 5:23-26 Acts 15:1-27
Acts 11:29,30 Acts 13: 1-4 Philippians 4:14-16
Acts 20:28,31 I Corinthians 5:1-6,11
14. We believe that Bible Baptism is the burial of a believer in water,
thus setting forth in symbol his union with Christ in His death, burial,
and resurrection; that every believer should be baptized because of the
example of our Lord and because of the command given by our obedience by
those who are already saved, to picture that they are dead, buried, and
raised spiritually with Jesus Christ by faith in Him. We reject infant
baptism as unscriptural.
Romans 6:3-5 Matthew 3:13-17 Matthew 28:19,20 John
5:24 Acts 8:36-39 Ephesians 2:8,9 Titus 3:5
15. We believe that the Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of the Lord’s
death until He comes again; and that in this ordinance, the Lord’s table
should be open to all regenerated persons living in fellowship with, in
obedience to Jesus Christ.
Luke 22:14-20 I Corinthians 11:23-32
16. We believe in the literal, bodily, person, pre-millennial and
imminent coming of our Lord into the air to catch away all believers
unto Himself before the tribulation period; also, in the personal,
visible, and glorious return of Christ to the earth, with believers at
the close of the tribulation period to judge the living nations and to
set up His millennial kingdom on earth.
Acts 1:11 John 14:3 I Thessalonians 4:13-18
Revelation 4:1 Matthew 24:42-44 II Thessalonians 2:7,8
Matthew 24:29-31 Revelation 19:11-21 Matthew 25:31-46
Revelation 20:1-6 Hebrews 12:22-24
17. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, the saved to
everlasting blessedness at the coming of Christ, and, one thousand years
later, the lost to the judgment at the Great White Throne and then to
everlasting, conscious punishment in the Lake of Fire.
John 5:21-30 Philippians 3:20,21 I Thessalonians 4:13-18
I Corinthians 15:42-52 Revelation 20:5,6,11-15
18. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from
the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await
the first resurrection; and that the souls of the lost remain after
death in conscious misery until the second resurrection.
II Corinthians 5:6-8 Philippians 1:23-24 Luke
17:19-31
19. We believe that civil government is of divine appointment, for the
interest and good order of human society; and that magistrates are to be
prayed for, conscientiously honored, and obeyed, except only in things
opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 13:1-7 Genesis 9:5,6 Exodus 18:21 I Timothy
2:2,3 Acts 4:19-20 Acts 5:27-29
20. We believe that in this Age of Grace, the Lord’s day, which is the
first day of the week, the day of our Lord’s resurrection, is the proper
day for Christian worship and service; and that it ought to be kept
sacred to spiritual purposed, by abstinence from all unnecessary secular
labor and other activities unbecoming to such a Day.
Acts 20:7 I Corinthians 16:1,2 Colossians 2:13-17 Hebrews
10:25 John 20:1,19,26
21. We believe that God’s covenant people, Israel, shall be redeemed and
re-gathered to Palestine from their world-wide Dispersion, and under the
personal and millennial reign of Christ upon David’s throne in
Jerusalem, shall become the head of nations.
Genesis 12:2,3 Genesis 13:14, 15 Deuteronomy
28:63-66 Jeremiah 7:7 Romans 11:25-27 Ezekiel 36:22
28;37:11-28 Luke 1:30-33 Jeremiah 23:3-6
Jeremiah 33:14-17 Acts 3:19-21
Revelation 20:4-6
22. We believe that Satan, a fallen angel, is a distinct and real
personality, the god of this age, the adversary of Christ and all
believers; and that his destiny is eternal punishment in the Lake of
Fire.
Ezekiel 28:1-19 Job 1:6-9 I Peter 5:8 Matthew 4:1-11
I Timothy 3:7 James 4:7 II Corinthians 4:4
Revelation 20:10
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