THE NOBLE BEREAN DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

1) That the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments Scriptures are inerrant and verbally inspired of God and are the all-sufficient, supreme and final authority in faith and life. That the Church has no more need for "further" or "new" revelation from God as the Scriptures are the full and complete revelation from God to His people. 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21:, PS. 119:89; John 10:35; PS. 138:2; Proverbs 30:5-6; Deut 29:29; Rev. 22:18-19.

That God preserved His Word through the Traditional Masoretic Hebrew Text for the Old Testament and the Traditional Received Greek Text for the New Testament. The King James Version (AV 1611) is the only translation widely used today that is translated strictly from these texts, and therefore we accept it alone as God's preserved, verbal, plenary, inspired, inerrant, infallible Word for English speaking people. (other modern versions contain God's Word, but they also contain many errors.) PS. 12:6-7, PS 119:89, II Timothy 3:16-17, II Peter 1:21

2) There is one God, eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, manifesting Himself in Three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; one in nature, equal in attributes, power, and glory. Deut. 6:4; PS.2:7; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14.

3) That the Lord Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true man. Isa. 7:14, 9:6; Matt. 1: 16; Jn. 1: 14,17; Gal 4:4; Rom. 1:4.

4) That God created man in His own image in a state of innocence, but man willfully transgresses God's law and lost communion with God, becoming dead in sin, corrupt in nature, and incapable of pleasing God. Gen. 1:26; Eph. 2: 1; Gen3:16-19; Ps. 5 1: 5; Heb. 11: 6.

5) That the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice and rose again for our justification; and that all who believe in him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood and are saved by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit and works. Matt 20:28; 1 Peter 2:24; Isa. 5 3:6; 1 Tim. 1: 15, 2:5; 1Jn. 2:2; 2Cor. 5:19; Jn.1:29.

6) Those all who receive the Lord Jesus by Faith are born again by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God and thereby become the children of God, eternally secure in Christ possessing everlasting life. Jn.3:3-8; 1Peter 1:23; 2 Cor 5:17 Titus 3-5 Eph 2:8,9; Jn 1:12; Acts 16:30-31.

7) That we must take a separatist stand regarding teachings that lead to the discrediting of the Bible and the undermining of the fundamentals of the faith. These errant doctrines include Neo-Orthodoxy, Neo-Evangelicalism, Ecumenicalism, Hyper-Calvinism, and the Charismatic Movement.. Jn.3:16; Rom. 16:17; 2 Jn. 1:9-11; 2 Cor 6:17; 1 Jn. 2:15-16; 1Peter 1:16; 1Peter 1:23; 1Peter 2:9; 1 Thes. 4:7; Heb. 12:14.

8) We believe that all the redeemed, once saved are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe that eternal life is the present possession of every believer. John 6:37-40, 10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38-39; I Corinthians 1:4-8; I Peter 1:4-5; Jude 1, 2.

9) The resurrection of the crucified body of the Lord, His ascension into heaven, and in His present life and session there as our High Priest and Advocate and the sole mediator. Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor. 15:1-8; Rev. 1: 18; Heb. 10: 12, 7:25; I Tim. 2:5

10) The indwelling Holy Spirit, who regenerates, seals, is the earnest, illuminates and fills the believer in this age. There is one baptism of the Holy Spirit at the time of conversion and that speaking in tongues and other sign gifts ceased before or with the completion of the New Testament writings. John 14:16, 17:26, 16:13; Titus 3:5; Eph. 1: 13,14; 1 Cor. 2:9-13; Eph. 5:18; 1 Cor. 5: 18; 1 Cor, 12:13, 13:8, 14:22.

11) That all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and associations is commanded of God. II Timothy 3:1-5; Romans 12:1, 2, 14:13; I John 2:15-17; II John 9-11; II Corinthians 6:14-7:1.

12) We recognize the ordinances of baptism by immersion in water and the Lord's Supper as a Scriptural means of testimony for the Church in this age. Matthew. 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42, 18:18; I Corinthians 11:23-26.

13) That the so-called "charismatic" experience is both a doctrinal and practical error and therefore, neither to be sought nor practiced. 2 Peter 1:19; John 1:12; John 3:36; John 5:24; Romans 10:13-17.

14) The imminent, soon, pre-tribulational return of Jesus Christ to rapture Church-age saints of this dispensation. John 14:1-3; 1 Thes. 4:13 -18; Rev. 3: 10; 1 Cor. 15:51,52.



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