Landmark Independent Baptist Church

DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
What We Believe!

1. We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of both the Old and New Testaments, i.e. that the very words of the original Scriptures are infallible and inerrant and that they are our final and absolute authority in every area
of life and knowledge.

2. We believe in one GOD, eternally existing in three co-equal persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

3. We believe that JESUS CHRIST was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and that HE is both undiminished deity and genuine humanity in one person forever.

4. We believe that GOD the Holy Spirit is a Personal Being who convicts the world ofsin and who regenerates, indwells, empowers, guides, and bestows spiritual gifts on believers, and who seals them eternally for GOD.

5. We believe that man was created by a direct act of GOD in His image, not from previously existing life, that all men sinned in Adam (the historical father ofthe entire human race) and thus incurred both physical and spiritual death and that all men have inherited a sinful nature.

6. We believe that JESUS CHRIST died as a substitutionary sacrifice for our sins and that through faith in HIM as LORD and Savior, we are declared righteous by GOD and are eternally secure in CHRIST
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7. We believe that Salvation is by grace through faith in JESUS CHRIST, totally apart from human merit, and that the experience of regeneration produces a new creature in CHRIST.

8. We believe that JESUS CHRIST rose from the dead physically and bodily and that HE ascended in like form into Heaven, where HE continually ministers as our Great High Priest and Advocate.

9. We believe that this age will be consumed by the literal, visible, bodily return of JESUS CHRIST to this earth.

10. We believe in the bodily resurrection ofthe just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness ofthe saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

11. We believe that all believers are under the mandate of JESUS CHRIST to proclaim the Gospel to all the world.

12. We believe that a visible church of CHRIST is a congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the Gospel; observing the ordinances of CHRIST; governed by IDS laws and exercising the gifts, rights and privileges invested in them by IDS Word; that its only Scriptural officers are bishops or pastors and deacons whose qualifications, claims and duties are defined in the Epistle of Timothy and Titus.

13. We believe that Christian baptism is immersion in water of a believer, in the name ofthe Father and Son and Holy Ghost to show forth in a solemn and beautiful emblem of our faith in the crucified, buried and risen Savior. '