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Truth Baptist Church Doctrinal Statement 

I. The Inspiration of the Bible
We believe the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of
God. We believe the writings of the Old and New
Testaments are fully God-breathed to the extent that the
very words were chosen by God from the human writer's
vocabulary so that the Bible is the very word of God,
inerrant in all its assertions and teachings. The Bible is
therefore the only infallible authority for both doctrine
and life. Since this is true, it is the special revelation of
God to man and the only basis for true Christian unity.
We believe the King James Bible is God's authorized
preserved Word and the most reliable translation for the
modern English world. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; Matthew
5:18; Acts 1:16; Mark 12:36; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Hebrews
4:12; John 10:35;1 6:12,13;1 7:17) 

II. Creation
We believe the Genesis account of creation as being a
literal, historical account of the direct, immediate
creative acts of God in six solar days without any
(organic or theistic) evolutionary process: that man
(spirit, soul and body) was created the sixth day by a
direct work of God and not from previously existing
forms of life; and that all men are descended from the
historical Adam and Eve, first parents of the entire
human race (Gen. 1-2; Col. 1:16,17; John 1:3). 

III. The Person of God the Father
We believe God is supreme in His Person, eternal in His
being, absolute in His attributes, and glorious in His
Perfection. We believe in the Trinity. We believe in one
Triune God, the creator of heaven and earth. We believe
that in the unity of the Godhead there are three distinct
persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in power
and glory. God is personal, spirit, omniscient, sovereign,
perfect, immutable, eternal in His being, holiness, love,
wisdom, and power. We believe that God is absolutely
separate and above the world as its creator, yet
everywhere present in the world as the sustainer of all
things. God is self-existent and self-revealing in His
relationship with His creation. (Genesis 1:1; Matthew
28:19; Deuteronomy 4:35; 6:4; 1 Corinthian 8:6; John
1:1-3; Romans 1:2-4; Ephesians 4:3-6) 

IV. The Person of Jesus Christ
We believe in the virgin birth of Christ, His Deity, and
sinless life, His vicarious death, along with His bodily
resurrection and ascension, and in His personal, pre-
millennial return. We believe the Lord Jesus Christ is the
second person of the Godhead, God in the flesh, virgin
born as no other man has ever been born nor ever will
be born. He lived an absolutely sinless life and became
the sinner's voluntary substitute on the Cross by His
vicarious death for man's sin. Jesus Christ rose from
the dead on the third day, giving eternal assurance of
redemption's full payment and the satisfaction of God's
righteous indignation toward sin. He ascended bodily
into heaven and he will come to rapture His saints to be
with Himself. His coming for His saints is imminent and
will be personal, pre-tribulational, and pre-millennial.
(lsaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18; John 1:1; 14:3; 1
Thessalonians 4:16; Luke 1:35; 1 Peter 2:22; 3:18) 

V. The Person of the Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is the executive of the
Godhead. We believe that He executes the Plan of God
for our conviction and salvation. Christians are
partakers of the Holy Spirit and empowered for service
by Him. We believe the Holy Spirit is a person
possessing all the attributes of Deity. He convicts the
unbelieving world of sin, of righteousness and of
judgment. He regenerates, seals, indwells, fills the
believer and bestows gifts upon believers for service.
He teachers the believer and sets him apart for a holy
life. We believe the Bible repudiates the charismatic
emphasis upon the experiential oriented tongues and
ecumenical practices as any ministry of the Holy Spirit.
We believe the Holy Spirit is the Commander-in-Chief of
missions and that His testimony is not of Himself but
Jesus Christ and the redemptive truths centered in
Christ. (John 14:16,17; 16:8; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Acts
5:3,4; Ephesians 1:13,14; Romans 8:9)

VI. The Devil or Satan
We believe that Satan is a personal being, a fallen angel,
prince of demons, the god of this age, the great enticer
and deceiver, the adversary of Christ and His people,
accuser of the brethren, whose end is the Lake of Fire
(Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:12- 19; || Cor. 4:3,4; I Peter 5:8;
Rev. 12:9,10; Matt. 25:41; Rev. 20:10) 

VII. The Fall of Man
We believe that man was created in the image of God
and by choice fel into sin and death. Hence, every
person is sinful and under condemnation to eternal
judgment. We believe that man was created by a direct
act of God in the image and likeness of his Creator. By
disobedience to the revealed will of God, man forfeited
his reign over the earth and fell from his created state
and standing with God. Therefore, all men are
universally sinful both by nature and choice, and are
void of the righteousness of God. All men are thus
alienated from the life and family of God, without
excuse, under the righteous judgment and wrath of God,
and have within themselves no possible means of
salvation. (Genesis 1:27; Romans 3:23; 5:12-19; Isaiah
53:6; Ephesians 2:1-3). 

VIII. The Salvation of Sinners
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of
Grace, and that Jesus Christ is the only way of
salvation. We believe in the salvation of man by grace
through faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross.
We believe that salvation is the free gift of God, neither
merited nor secured in part nor in whole by any virtue or
work of man, but received only by personal faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom all true believers have as a
present possession the gift of eternal life, a perfectly
righteous standing, sonship in the family of God by a
new birth. We believe that the cross of Christ is
redemptive, substitutionary, propitiatory and the only
basis of reconciliation for all lost men who believe and
that there is no possible salvation outside of Jesus
Christ and His shed blood. (John 3:3-6, 16;10:28-29;
Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8-10; 1 Timothy 2:5,6; 1 Peter
1:18-23). 

IX. The Free Gift of Salvation
We believe that the blessings of salvation are made free
by the Gospel, that nothing prevents the salvation of the
greatest sinner but his own inherent depravity and
voluntary rejection of the Gospel. We believe that
salvation was accomplished on the cross by Jesus
Christ and is extended to all men as a gift to be received
by faith. The basis of this salvation is totally the grace
that provided the cross. Although all men are
responsible to receive the gift of salvation in Christ, only
those who respond to the ministry of the Spirit of God in
the presentation of the Gospel will be saved. Salvation
is the free and completed gift of God to all who will
believe. (John 1:12; 3:16; 5:24; 12:46; Acts 16:31;
Romans 10:11-13). 

X. The Security of a Believer
We believe that those who receive Jesus Christ as
Savior are eternally secure. Our security rests on the
finished work of Jesus Christ. As a result, we have
assurance. We believe that the true believer is forever
secure as a redeemed possession of God. This security
is founded on the full payment of the believer's sin by
the cross of Christ in His substitutionary atonement and
God's proof of receipt of that payment in the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. The sole condition of
salvation is faith in Jesus Christ and His redemptive
work. This positive expression of faith has as its
negative side repentance and rejection of any other
basis of salvation. Therefore, the security of the believer
is not conditioned upon his circumstances nor
emotional experiences nor strength but it is an
acceptance of that basis of reconciliation which has
already been accepted by God. The believer is in the
possession of God, which is the opposite of lost. He is
secure because God has taken the responsibility for His
own. (John 10:27-30; 1 John 2:1-2; Romans 8:31-34, 38-
39; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Hebrews 2:10). 

XI. Heaven and Hell
We believe in the eternal blessedness of the saved in
Heaven and the eternal punishment of the lost in Hell.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved
and lost, secured by the bodily resurrection of Christ.
The spirits of the saved at death go immediately to be
with Christ in heaven, their lives and works shall be
evaluated at the Judgment Seat of Christ for the
determination of rewards which will take place when
Christ comes for His own in the rapture. They will
experience the blessedness of God's presence for all
eternity. The spirits of the unsaved at death descend
immediately into Hades where they are kept under
punishment until the Great White Throne Judgment. At
this time, their bodies shall be raised from the grave and
be cast into the eternal lake of fire, the place of final and
everlasting punishment. (John 5:28,29; 14:2; Revelation
20:14,15; 21:4; Matthew 25:46). 

XII. The Church
We believe the visible church is a congregation of
baptized believers, practicing New Testament principles,
believing its doctrines, observing its ordinances, and
exercising its autonomy. A local church is an organized
body of believers immersed upon credible confession of
faith in Jesus Christ, recognizing only two offices (filled
by pastor and deacon), sovereign in polity, and bonded
together for work, worship, mutual edification,
observance of the ordinances and the worldwide
proclamation of the Gospel. The church is distinct from
Israel in the Old Testament, autonomous, with Christ as
its head. (Matthew 28:19-20; Ephesians 1:22,23; Acts
2:41-47; Ephesians 4:11-13; 1 Corinthians 12). 

XIII. The Ordinances
We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of a
believer in water in the name of the Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit, one time backward, to show forth in a
solemn and beautiful emblem our faith in the crucified,
buried and risen Savior, as a testimony to our death to
sin and resurrection to a new life, and that it is pre-
requisite to the privileges of church membership.
We believe that the Lord's Supper is the
commemoration of His death until He returns, and
should be preceded always by salvation, baptism, and
solemn self-exanmination as to the believer's relationship
to God and others. (Acts 8:26-29; John 3:23; Rom. 6:3-5;
Matt. 3:16; Col. 2:12; I Cor. 11:23-28,12:13). 

XIV. Separation and Sanctification
Personal Separation
We believe that the Scriptures clearly teach non-
conformity to the world for every believer; that born-
again people should be separated from the world unto
Christ; that it is clearly commanded of God to all
believers to live lives of separation from all worldly and
sinful practices and to be holy as He is holy. We believe
that positional sanctification is to be progressive
throughout the entire life-span of a believer here on
earth. God's provision for holy living is in the believer's
identification with Christ in His death, resurrection and
ascension; the indwelling Person and power of the Holy
Spirit and the believer's yieldedness to Him; and by the
powerful Word of God (Col. 1:13; 3:1-4; |I| Cor. 3:18; 6:14-
17;7:1; Titus 2:14; | Pet. 1:14-16; I| Pet. 3:18; Heb.
10:1,14; 4:12; Rom. 6:1-14; 12:1,2; John 17:17; Eph. 5:25-
27; I John 2:15-17; James 4:1-4). 

A. Human sexuality
1. We believe that God has commanded that no
intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside
of a marriage between a man and a woman.
We believe that any form of homosexuality,
lesbianism, bestiality, incest, pedophilia,
fornication, adultery, and pornography are
sinful perversions of God's gift of sex. We
believe that God disapproves of and forbids
any attempt to alter one's gender by surgery
or appearance. (Gen. 2:24; 19:5,13; 26:8-9;
Lev. 18:1-30; Rom. 1:26-29; | Cor. 5:1; 6:9; I
Thess. 4:1-8; Heb. 13:4)
2. We believe that the only legitimate marriage
is the joining of one man and one woman.
(Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; I Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22-23) 

B. Abortion
We believe that human life begins at conception and
that the unborn child is a living human being. Abortion
constitutes an unjustified, un-excused taking of unborn
human life and is murder. We reject any teaching that
abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth
defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or
the mental well-being of the mother are acceptable.
(Job 3:16; Psalm 51:5, 139:14-16; 1saiah 44:24, 49:1 &5;
Jeremiah 1:5, 20:15-18; Luke 1:44).

Current Trends in Theology

As fundamental believers, we take a Biblical stand regarding the current trends that lead to discrediting the Bible and undermining the fundamentals of the faith. Thus, we take a separatist stand against Neo-orthodoxy, Neo-evangelicalism, the Ecumenical movement, Calvinism and the modern tongues movement.