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FEC What We Believe
What must I do to be saved? Is possibly the most important question we can ask.
From the bible the answer may surprise us not ‘do this’ but ‘believe in the Lord Jesus Christ’.
It’s very difficult to define the amount of knowldege someone has to have to become a Christian.
The following truths are preached at Falmouth Evangelical Church:
1) There is only one God
2) God has three distinct persons- Father Son and Holy Spirit all equal and eternal.
4) God made this whole universe in six days and rested on the seventh establishing the importance of distinguishing one day a week to be his in a special way.
5) Mankind was included in the acts of Creation and the first man and woman were given a special dignity by being made in God’s image. This makes human life very precious.
6) Sadly the first man and first woman chose to diobey God’s commands and their conscience and suffered spiritual death as a consquence.
7) Ever since then, with just one exception, every human bering has been born dead to God in what the bible describes as trespasses and sins.
8) The One exception is Jesus himself. He was and always is fully divine but in the bible’s words ‘The Word became flesh and dwealt amongst us’. He was born of Mary, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mry’s womb thus fulfilling the Old Testament prophecy that the ‘Seed of the Woman would bruise the serpent’s head’
9) Having been born perfect- the only person ever born so- Jesus remained absolutely perfect through his whole life. He was never guilty of one act of sin, one wrong thought or attitude.
10) Having lived such a perfect life he offered himself to God by dying upon a cross paying a ransom price to bring people back to God.
11) When he was dying he bore the pains of hell upon his own soul as well as the physical suffering of the cross. (This is how we understand the expression from the creed: ‘he descended into hell’).
12) Having been buried he rose physicaly from the dead and appeared to his disciples at different times before ascending to heasven.
13) God the Holy Spirit came to dwell with and to guide the church in Jesus’ place on the day of Pentecost.
14) One day Jesus will return to this planet and will issue in the end of history as we know it and the judgement of every human being by God.
15) both heaven and hell are equally places of eternal duration one of conscious enjoymernt of God and rejoicing in Christ, the other of conscious loss and ruin and punishment.
16) Not all people find the salvation offered to all who believe in Jesus. The Gospel (the news of Jesus’ coming and all his work and life) is to be made known to all as widely as possible and offers salvation to all who believe.
17) Because of the sin that renders us helpless to please God as we are born without God’s intervention none would believe. God therefore works to save through the work of the Holy Spirit bringing us to new birth.
Please
see the next sheet for further
matters and also the 1689 Baptist Confession which is believed by the
Minister and any Elders of the church.
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