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1. We believe in one True and Living God of the Bible, and that there is a
trinity of persons in the Godhead: the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and
yet there are not three gods, but one God. I John 5:7
2. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the
inspired Word of God and are the only rule of faith and practice.
II Timothy 3:16
3. We believe in the fall of Adam and the imputation of sin to his posterity, in
the corruption of human nature, and the impotency of man to recover
himself, by his own will and ability. Romans 5:12, 18, 19
4. We believe in the everlasting love of God for His people, and the
eternal election of a definite number of the human race to grace and
glory, and that there was a covenant of grace and redemption made
between the Father and the Son before the world began, in which the
salvation of the elect is secure, and that they in particular are redeemed.
Ephesians 1:4
5. We believe that sinners are justified in the sight of God only by the
imputation of Christ's righteousness to them. Romans 5:9
6. We believe that all who were chosen in Christ will be effectually called,
regenerated, sanctified, supported by the Spirit, and the power of God, so
that they shall be preserved in Grace, and not one of them shall be finally
lost. John 6:37-39
7. We believe that good works are a fruit of faith and follow after
regeneration and that they only justify us in the sight of men and
angels and are evidence of our gracious state. Galatians 5:22
8. We believe that the Church of Christ is a local body of professing and
baptized believers who have, upon public confession of their faith in
Christ, gained Christian fellowship with each other and have given
themselves up to the Lord, agreeable to the rules of the Gospel and is
the highest and only ecclesiastical authority known to the Word of God.
Ephesians 2:19 - 22
9. We believe that Jesus Christ is the great Head of the Church, and her only
lawgiver, and that the government and administration of the ordinances
is with the Church herself, and is the privilege of each member, that the
discipline cannot be legally extended beyond her own Scriptural
jurisdiction, and is intended for the reclamation or exclusion of those
members who may become disorderly, either in principle or practice, and
must be faithfully kept up for God's glory and the peace and fellowship of
the churches. I Corinthians 5:11-13
10. We believe that there will be a resurrection of the dead, a general
judgment, and that the happiness of the righteous and the punishment of
the wicked will be eternal. Matthew 25:31-46
11. We believe that baptism and the Lord's Supper and washing of the saint's
feet are ordinances of Jesus Christ, and that true believers are the only
subjects of the ordinances, and that the true mode of baptism is
immersion. Matthew 3:16, John 13:4,5
12. We believe that no minister has the right to the administration of any of
the ordinances, except such as are called and come under the hands of
the presbytery. I Timothy 4:14
Primitive Baptist Church