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We Belive
in
One God, existing in three persons:: God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit -- the same
in substance attributes and essence and equal in power and
glory. God is both infinite and personal.
The
Bible. Since God is personal He has spoken. The Bible
is the Word of God. It contains no errors as given originally,
and it is the single written authority for our lives not only
in matters of faith and practice but also in every area to
which it speaks, including history, geography and science.
Creation and the Fall. Man was
created morally good by God, male and female in God's image,
but man freely chose to sin and thereby plunged himself and
mankind into spiritual death and separation from God. This was
an actual historic event with detrimental consequences to man
both spiritually and physically including his moral and
volitional abilities. The fall also had detrimental
consequences to the physical universe and the environment and
introduced for the first time suffering, death, and natural
disasters.
Jesus Christ, Jesus
Christ, God in the flesh, as the only savior of men. The death
of Christ was given as the substitution for what we, who are
believers, deserve due to our sin. His obedient life and
substitutionary death accomplished redemption from the fall
and salvation for those who believe. Whereas the first Adam
failed, Christ as the second Adam succeeded and secured a
spiritual people of His own. Christ also redeemed the physical
universe and the environment, but these will not be re-created
until His second coming as "the new heavens and the new
earth".
The bodily resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead. This historic time-space event not
only completed His work of salvation on the cross but
demonstrated the truth of His claims and of His Word to a
watching world and the certainty of His second coming to judge
the world and take believers unto Himself into eternity.
God's gift of salvation. Men and
women cannot earn salvation; rather they receive salvation as
a free gift by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ
alone. Men and women receive this gift through faith involving
repentance leading to a changed heart, attitude, and behavior.
This change is done by God's Spirit and will continue
throughout a believer's life but will not be completed until
we receive new resurrected bodies like Christ's upon his
return at His second coming. Saving faith is a free gift from
God to those of His sovereign choosing.
The
sovereignty of God. God is in control of, and has
authority over all events of the world and our personal lives
notwithstanding our human responsibility and accountability to
God and the fact that our choices do make a difference both in
time and in eternity.
See: Statement of Faith of
Campus Crusade for Christ and the Westminster
Confession of Faith.
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