First Baptist Church
Our Beliefs...
III. The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, equal with God the Father
and God the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in the creation; that
in His relation to the unbelieving world He restrains the evil one until God's
purpose is fulfilled; that He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment;
that He bears witness to the truth of the gospel in preaching and testimony; that
He is the Agent in the new birth; that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses,
sanctifies and helps the believer. John 14:16, 17; Matthew 28:19; Hebrews 9:14;
John 14:26; Luke 1:35; Genesis 1:1-3; John 16:8-11; Acts 5:30-32; John 3:5, 6;
Ephesians 1:13, 14; Mark 1:8; John 1:33; Acts 11:16; Luke 24:49; Romans 8:14,
16, 26, 27.
IV. The Devil, or Satan
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, the Devil; and that he was
created by God as an angel but through pride and rebellion became the enemy of
his Creator; that he became the unholy god of this age and the ruler of all the
powers of darkness and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the
lake of fire. Matthew 4:1-11; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 20:10.
V. Creation
We believe the Biblical account of the creation of the physical universe, angels,
and man; that this account is neither allegory nor myth, but a literal, historical
account of the direct, immediate creative acts of God without any evolutionary
process; that man was created by a direct work of God and not from previously
existing forms of life; and that all men are descended from the historical Adam
and Eve, first parents of the entire human race. Genesis 1; 2; Colossians 1:16,
17; John 1:3.
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