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- We Believe:
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In one holy, loving, all-powerful and gracious
Creator
God
who exists in
three
Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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That
Jesus
Christ, born of the virgin Mary,
fully
God and fully human, is both Lord and Savior.
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That Jesus Christ suffered and
died
on the cross for human sin, that he was
raised
bodily
on
the third day, and that he
ascended
to heaven and is at the right hand of God the Father.
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That Jesus Christ
will
come again to judge the living and the dead and to reign over
all things.
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In
the
Holy Spirit, who brings sinners to
repentance,
who gives eternal life to believers, and who lives in them to conform
them
to
the image of Jesus Christ.
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That
the Bible
is the inspired and infallible
Word
of God,
fully
authoritative for all matters of faith and practice.
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That Christians should gather in
regular
fellowship and
live
lives of faith that make evident
the
good news that humans enter
the
kingdom of God by
putting
their trust in Jesus Christ.
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In the spiritual unity of all believers in our
Lord Jesus Christ.
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That
salvation
comes not by works, but only by God's
grace
through
faith in Jesus Christ.
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In the
resurrection
of the dead and the life of
the
world to come.
- Statement of Beliefs:
As a Spirit-led body of believers, the church is exhorted, "Grow
in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2
Peter 3:18). The Spirit of God leads the church into all truth (John 16:13).
Accordingly, our
Statement
of Beliefs is not a closed creed. The Worldwide Church of God constantly
renews its commitment to truth and deeper understanding and responds to
God's guidance in its beliefs and practices.
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