We believe that, as provided and purposed by God and as pre-announced in the prophecies of the Scriptures, the Eternal Son of God came into this world that He might manifest God to men, fulfill prophecy, and become the Redeemer of a lost world. To this end He was born of the virgin, and received a human body and a sinless human nature.
John 1:18,
John 6:16,
Luke 1:30-35,
Hebrews 4:15
We believe that, on the human side He became and remained a perfect man, but sinless throughout His life; yet He retained His absolute Deity, being at the same time very God and very man, and that His earth-life was sometimes functioned within the sphere of that which was human and sometimes within the sphere of that which was divine.
Luke 2:40,
John 1:1-2,
Philippians 2:5-8
We believe that, He came first to Israel as her Messiah King, and that, being rejected of that nation, He, according to the eternal counsels of God, gave His life as a ransom for all.
John 1:11,
Acts 2:22-24,
I Timothy 2:6
We believe that, in infinite love for the lost, He voluntarily accepted His
Father's will and became the divinely provided sacrificial Lamb and took away the sin of the world; bearing the holy judgments against sin which the righteousness of God must impose. His death was, therefore, substitutionary in the most absolute sense--the Just for the unjust--and by His death He became the Saviour of the lost.
Hebrews 10:5-14,
John 1:29,
Romans 2:25,26,
II Corinthians 5:14,
I Peter 3:18
We believe that He arose from the dead, according to the Scriptures, and in the same body, though glorified, in which He had lived and died, and that His resurrection body is the pattern of that body which, at the return of Christ will be given to all resurrected believers.
John 20:20,
Philippians 3:20
We believe that, on departing from the earth, He was accepted of His Father and that His acceptance is a final assurance to us that His redeeming work was perfectly accomplished
Hebrews 1:3
We believe that He became Head over all things to the Church, which is His body, and in this ministry He ceases not to intercede and advocate for the saved.
Ephesians 1:22-23,
Hebrews 7:25,
I John 2:1
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