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Beliefs: PrincipleDesigns™ Statement of Faith*

Material Written by James. C. Farley
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- We believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, both the Old and the New Testament. The Lord breathed His Word (a process which ceased with the originals), and His final product was infallible and absolutely inerrant. We believe He has providentially preserved all of the very words of Scripture for the benefit of all mankind and in particular, His people. (II Tim. 3:16; II Peter 1:21; Psalm 12:6-7) - We believe in One God, eternally existing in Three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). Each of the divine Persons are coequal and coeternal. Their substance is neither divided, nor their Persons confounded. (Matt. 28:19; I John 5:7) - We believe in the pre-existence, deity and incarnation of Jesus Christ. (John 1:1-9; I Tim. 3:16) - We believe that man and this universe were created by the direct act of God and that man fell into sin. The penalty of this sin is death. All of mankind are born with a sinful nature, are absolutely depraved, and for those who reach an age of accountability, they must be born again by the Spirit of God in order to have God's acceptance. (Rom. 5:12; Rom. 3:10, 23; John 3:5-17) - We believe in the death, burial and bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ's death on the cross was our subsitutionary payment for our sins and we are justified by the shedding of His precious blood on that cross. Three days and three nights after He voluntarily gave His life on the cross, He bodily rose from the grave. (I Cor. 15:3-4; Rom. 5:9; John 3:16, 20:27; Mark 16:19; Heb. 5:9, 7:25, 8:1, 9:12; I John 2:1) - We believe that man must turn from His sins (repent) and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and His gospel (believe) in order to have eternal life in Heaven. Therefore, being born again by the Spirit of God upon this faith and repentance, man will not fall into condemnation and damning judgement by the Lord. (John 3:18, 5:24) - We believe in a literal Heaven for those who have repented of their sins and trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. We also emphatically believe in a literal Hell fire for those who have rejected the Lord Jesus Christ and His gospel. (John 8:24, 14:1-6; Psalm 9:17, 16:11; Phil. 1:21, 23; II Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 20:10-15) - We believe that we must separate from the ecumenical movement and from all forms of religious apostasy. (II Cor. 6:17-18; 7:1) - We believe that the Charismatic movement, with it's practice of unbiblical tongues, unbiblical healing, health and prosperity gospel, often (and more concerning) false teachings of Modalism (concerning the Triune God) and many other doctrinal aberrations, is therefore of the Devil. Out of conviction, we separate ecclesiastically and personally from such like. (I Cor. 13:10; II Cor. 11:14) - We believe that we must keep Christ's commandments out of love for Him and therefore we must practice personal separation from the world system. This obedience to Christ's commands does not affect our positional salvation in any way, however, since we are commanded by Scripture to love not the world, neither the things that are in the World, we endeavor to follow the Lord in this, by faith. (I John 2:15-16; John 17:15-19; James 4:1-10) - We believe in the literal, Personal, pre-millenial, pre-tribulational, and imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that His return will literally be visible, with His saints, and at the end of the time of the Tribulation, known in the Scriptures as the Great Tribulation. We believe that Christ will literally establish the "Kingdom of Heaven," which is the one thousand year millenial reign of Christ. We believe that this reign will fulfill both Old and New Testament prophecy. (Acts 1:10, 11; Titus 2:13; I Thessalonians 4:13-17; John 14:3; Matthew 8:11-12, 13, 24, 25; Revelation 19:11-21, 2:1-6)