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Holding the Bible as the complete and only divine revelation,
we strongly believe that God is eternally one and also eternally the Father,
the Son, and the Spirit, the three being distinct but not separate. We
hold that Christ is both the complete God and the perfect man. Without
abandoning His divinity, He was conceived in the womb of a human virgin,
lived a genuine human life on earth, and died a vicarious and all-inclusive
death on the cross. After three days He resurrected bodily and has ascended
to the heavens. He is now in glory, fully God but still fully man. We
look to His imminent return with the kingdom of God, by which He will
reign over the earth in the millennium and in eternity. We confess that
the third of the Trinity, the Spirit, is equally God. All that the Father
has and is, is expressed by the Son; and all that the Son has and is,
is realized as the Spirit. We further believe that mankind is in need
of God's salvation. Though we were absolutely unable to fulfill the heavy
demands of God's righteousness, holiness, and glory, Christ fulfilled
all the requirements through His death on the cross. Because of Christ's
death, God has forgiven us of our sins, reconciled us to Himself, and
justified us by making Christ our righteousness. Based on Christ's redemption,
God regenerates the redeemed with His Spirit to consummate His salvation,
that they may become His children. Now possessing God's life and nature,
the believers enjoy a daily salvation in His Body in this age and the
eternal salvation in the coming age and in eternity. In eternity we will
dwell with God in the New Jerusalem, the consummation of God's salvation
of His elect.
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