I. The Holy Trinity

• God the Father: We believe there is but one true God, everlasting and eternal, of infinite power, wisdom and goodness; the Maker and Preserver of all things visible and invisible. United in this Godhead are three persons, of one substance and power; — the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

• God the Son: We believe that in due time, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, the Savior of the world, became incarnated and sojourned among men, teaching the purest of truth and working the most amazing and beneficent miracles. That this divine person, foretold by the prophets and described by the Evangelists and Apostles is really and properly God, having assigned to Him by the inspired writers every attribute essential to the Deity, being one with Him who is called God, Jehovah, etc. That He is also a perfect man in consequence of His incarnation and in that man, or manhood, dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; so His nature is two-fold — divine and human, or God manifest in the flesh. We believe that His human nature is derived from the Blessed Virgin Mary through the creative energy of the Holy Ghost, so that two whole or perfect natures, that is to say, the Godhead and manhood are united in one person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ very God and very man, who truly suffered, was crucified and buried to reconcile His Father to us and to be a vicarious sacrifice, not only for sins of commission but also for the original or inherent sin. We further believe that the third day after His crucifixion and burial, Jesus Christ arose from the dead and took again His body with all things appertaining to the perfection of man’s nature, wherewith He ascended into Heaven and there sitteth at the right hand of God, as the mediator until the consummation of all things. (Luke 1:27, 35; John 3:16; Acts 4:12).

• God the Holy Ghost: We believe in the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Triune Godhead, proceeding from the Father and the Son as the true and eternal God, of one substance, majesty and glory with the Father and the Son. He is ever present and efficiently active in and with the Church of Christ, convincing the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment and guiding into all truth. (John 16:8, 13; Acts 15:8-9)

II. The Sacred Scriptures

• We believe that the sacred scriptures of Holy Books which constitute the Old and New Testament are the inerrant and inspired Word of God (II Timothy 3:16) and contain a full revelation of the will of God in relation to man concerning us in all things necessary for our salvation. Whatever is not contained therein nor may be proved thereby, is not to be enjoined as an article of faith (II Peter 1:20-21).

III. Free Moral Agency

• We believe in the beginning man was created in righteousness and true holiness without any moral imperfection or any kind of propensity to sin but with the divine right of choice, free to stand or fall and thus was made morally responsible. Man fell from this state, became corrupt in His nature and transmitted his defilement to all his posterity.
• We further believe that man, though in the possession of the experience of forgiveness and sanctification, may fall from grace; and unless he repent of his sins and be cleansed from the nature of sin, be hopelessly and eternally lost.

IV. Original or Inherent Sin

• We believe that original sin or depravity is that corruption of every man’s nature that is naturally engendered of the offspring of Adam. Man is inclined to evil and that continually. (Genesis 6:5; Romans 5:12-18) The Scripture hath concluded all under sin (I John 1:8; Romans 5:12) that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to all that believe. (Revelation 22:17; John 3:16) God does not forgive original sin in us it continues to exist, though suppressed, after we have been forgiven of sins of commission and will remain within the nature of man until eradicated or destroyed by the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. (I John 1:9, 3:8; Acts 15:8-9).

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