Concord Bible
Church
OUR BELIEFS
"...If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free..." - Jesus
1. That the Holy Bible is the literal Word of God, it is inerrant, that the original writers were inspired and moved by the Holy Spirit, and that the canon of scripture is complete in the sixty-six books contained in the Holy Bible. - (1 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:20-21)
2. That the triune God, is eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, coming in the personal form of Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit. - (Genesis 1:1, 1 Corinthians 8:6, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Colossians 2:9, John 1:1-4, 14, John 10:30-31)
3. That creation commenced in the literal six-day creation account, that because God has created all things, He is therefore sovereign over all things in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. – (Genesis 5:1-2, Psalm 8:4-6)
4. In the sin nature of humanity, and due to Adam’s disobedience to God resulting in sin entering in the world, that all humanity are sinners and are without hope of salvation outside of the direct grace of God, through Jesus Christ. – (Romans 5:8. Romans 5:12)
5. In the deity of Jesus Christ. The Incarnation of God the Son coming into this world as both completely human and completely God. – (Matthew 16:13-17, John 8:58, 2 Peter 1:1)
6. In the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. – (Isaiah 9:7-14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:34)
7. In the sinless life of Jesus Christ. – (2 Corinthians 5:21, 2 Peter 2:21-22)
8. In the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ on the cross for the sins of humanity. We believe that salvation is by grace alone, given by God only through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross. In this atonement, salvation is received by the individual through faith alone, and sealed for all eternity by the Holy Spirit – (Isaiah 53:4-6, Matthew 8:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10)
9. In the literal bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead three days after His crucifixion. – (Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Colossians 2:12)
10. In the literal, imminent, and complete rapture of the church, when the trumpet will sound, and all believer’s dead and living, will be brought up to meet Him in the air. – (I Corinthians 15:51-53, 1 Thessalonians 4;16-18)
11. In the literal second coming of Jesus Christ, following the tribulation period, to rule and to reign on this earth. – (Mark 8:28, Acts 1:9-11, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Titus 2:13.
12. That all human beings, living and dead, exist with an eternal soul. So that, based on the acceptance of God’s gift of salvation through Jesus Christ alone, by grace alone, and through faith alone, or the rejection of God’s gift of salvation, the eternal spirit of all humanity are destined to an eternal life in a literal place called heaven to enjoy the presence of God for all eternity, or an eternal life in a literal place called hell permanently separated from God in eternal punishment. – (Daniel 12:2, Matthew 25:46, Romans 2:6-8, Galatians 6:7-8)
13. That because God created Adam and Eve to complement each other in a one-flesh union; that establishes the only normative pattern of sexual relations for men and women. Such that marriage ultimately serves as a picture of the union between Christ and his church, a union that is not to be broken. We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female. – (Genesis 2:28, Genesis 2:24, Proverbs 31:10-12, Mark 10:7-9, Hebrews 13:4)
14. That God created all life and is sovereign over all things that pertain to life, including death. God’s Word shows that life begins at conception, so the willful choosing to end that life in the womb by abortion is an attempt to remove God’s sovereignty over life and resulting in the ending of an unborn child’s life, is therefore sinful. We believe that God is sovereign over this life and is therefore sovereign over death. Therefore, any willful attempt at euthanasia is man’s attempt at usurping God of that sovereignty over death, and resulting in ending of that life, albeit by consent of the victim, is also sinful. – (Psalm 139:13-16, Isaiah 49:1, Jeremiah 1:4-5. Job 12:9-10, Ecclesiastes 7:17, 8:8. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
