First Baptist Church
Our Beliefs...
VI. The Fall of Man
We believe that man was created in innocence (in the image and likeness of God)
under the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression Adam fell from his
sinless and happy state, and all men sinned in him, in consequence of which all
men are totally depraved, are partakers of Adam's fallen nature, and are sinners
by nature and by conduct, and therefore are under just condemnation without defense
or excuse. Genesis 3:1-6; Romans 3:10-19; 5:12, 19; 1:18, 32.
VII. The Virgin Birth
We believe that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous manner,
born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man was ever born or can be born of-woman,
and that He is both the Son of God and God, the Son. Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14;
Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:35; John 1:14.
VIII. Salvation
We believe that the salvation of sinners is divinely initiated and wholly of grace
through the mediatorial offices of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who, by the appointment
of the Father, voluntarily took upon Himself our nature, yet without sin, and
honored the divine law by His personal obedience, thus qualifying Himself to be
our Savior; that by the shedding of His blood in His death He fully satisfied
the just demands of a holy and righteous God regarding sin; that His sacrifice
consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was a voluntary
substitution of Himself in the sinner's place, the Just dying for the unjust,
Christ the Lord bearing our sins in His own body on the tree; that having risen
from the dead He is now enthroned in Heaven, and uniting in His wonderful person
the tenderest sympathies with divine perfection, He is in every way qualified
to be a suitable, a compassionate and an all-sufficient Savior.
We believe that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the only condition of salvation.
Repentance is a change of mind and purpose toward God prompted by the Holy Spirit
and is an integral part of saving faith. Jonah 2:9; Ephesians 2:8; Acts 15:11;
Romans 3:24, 25; John 3:16; Matthew 18:11; Philippians 2:7, 8; Hebrews 2:14-17;
Isaiah 53:4-7; 1 John 4:10; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 2 Corinthians. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24.
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