ARTICLE XIII. STATEMENT OF FAITH

1. We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God, and inherent in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life;
2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit;
3. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in order that he might reveal God and redeem sinful man. We believe Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through his death on the cross as a propitiatory and substitutionary sacrifice and that our redemption is made sure to us by his resurrection from the dead in the identical, though glorified, body in which he was crucified.
4. We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death which is separation from God, and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and, upon becoming morally responsible, are lost.
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried and rose from the dead for our justification and that all who believe in him are born again by the Holy Spirit, thereby becoming children of God.
6. We believe in the physical resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his ascension into heaven, and in his present intercessory work as our high Priest and Advocate.