The Bible

Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation. The Scripture is without error in its original manuscripts. It infallibly contains the whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith and life. Scripture alone is the judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all the opinions of ancient writers, the doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined.

The Godhead

There is one living and true God. In the unity of the Godhead there are three persons of one substance, power and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God has, from all eternity, freely and unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass.

Humanity

God made man after His own image, in knowledge, righteousness and holiness. In eating the forbidden fruit, our first parents fell from original righteousness and lost communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body. Through Adam, the federal head and source of all mankind, the guilt of this first sin and its consequences were imputed to all his descendents.

The Way of Salvation

Man’s salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only Redeemer of God’s elect, Who being the eternal Son of God, became man, being conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, being fully God and fully man, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried. On the third day He rose again from the dead, having propitiated the wrath of God and secured salvation for the elect. The elect are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through faith and not for their own works.

Justification by Faith

Man is justified before God on the basis of the merits and person of Jesus Christ, as a singular act of God’s grace and forensic imputation. God imputes to the sinner the righteousness of Jesus Christ through the act of faith, itself the gift of God’s grace and not by means of any works or church association on the part of the believer. Justification is therefore by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

The Church

Christ has given to the visible church the ministry, work and ordinances of God for the gathering and perfecting of the saints. Christ has given only two sacraments to His church, baptism and the Supper of our Lord.

The Christian Hope

They whom God has effectually called, and sanctified, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but will persevere to the end and be saved. Christians hope in Christ’s return, the coming of the new heaven and new earth, and their eternal rest. At the last day all the dead shall be bodily raised and judged by the power of Christ. The unjust shall be raised to eternal condemnation. The just shall be raised to eternal life.