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God is the Father and Creator of the universe and mankind. Genesis 1:1-10

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.  3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.  6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.  

9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Baptism is a sign of profession and a mark of difference. It is also a sign of regeneration and new birth. We believe in the submerging of one that accepts Christ as their Lord and personal savior. Baptism is an outward expression of an enter confession. John 1:29-34.

The Assurance of Salvation What is salvation? Salvation is God’s action of grace whereby people are delivered from their sinful nature into newness and fullness of life. It is something done for us by the will and work of God, through Jesus Christ. Salvation denotes a liberation or release from the effect of sin. It is not that we are removed to a safe place in existence where danger cannot overtake us, but rather that we find an unexpected and underserved power to stand fast and not be shaken in the midst of danger. 

Salvation occurs when human life is founded upon openness to God. Thus, salvation is receiving God’s love, assurance, comfort, hope, and protection. 

Conditions of Salvation are when one accepts Jesus as our Lord and personal savior through faith. Salvation is only found in Jesus Christ. 

Salvation includes forgiveness of sins, justification, reconciliation, redemption, sanctification, and adoption into the family of God. The book of Romans teaches us about the doctrine of salvation.  Romans 10:9-13

The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another, but rather is a Sacrament of our redemption by Christ’s death; insomuch, that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ, and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ. Transubstantiation, or the change of the substance of bread and wine in the Supper of our Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions. The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper only in a heavenly and spiritual manner. And the means whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith. The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is not by Christ’s ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped. 

All the books of the New Testament as they are commonly received, we do receive and account canonical.

OF FREE WILL The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself by his own natural strength and works to faith, and calling upon God; wherefore, we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God; by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. 

OF THE JUSTIFICATION OF MAN We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, by faith, and not by our own works or deserving’s; wherefore, that we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort. 

OF GOOD WORKS Although good works, which are the fruit of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God’s judgments: yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and spring out of a true and lively faith, insomuch that they by them a lively faith may be as evidently known, as a tree is discerned by its fruit.