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1. The Holy Bible is the complete divine revelation from God and that every word is divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. It consists of 66 books (39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament) which gives a continuous, harmonious, and progressive revelation of God and His people.
2. The Bible reveals the mystery of the One living and true God, who is triune; that the three of the Godhead - Father, Son and Spirit - are in essence one, yet in economy three; they coexist and co-inhere eternally.
3. God has an eternal purpose which is fully intertwined and related to His creature, man.
4. The Triune God created man a tripartite being of spirit, soul, and body in His own image and likeness, without sin, with the intention that He would become man's life as signified by the tree of life.
5. Man in Adam failed by partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and became constituted a sinner, whose sinful nature has since been passed on to every man, separating man from God and placing him under the judgment of God.
6. God gave Israel the law of the Old Testament to expose man's sinful nature by revealing God's holy nature. Today the moral standard of the Old Testament has not been nullified. The ritual of the Old Testament is not for us to keep literally, but to reveal the riches of God, the person and work of Christ and His testimony the church.
7. The Son of God, God Himself, became a man named Jesus, conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, that He might destroy the Devil, Satan, and become mankind's Redeemer and Savior, as promised in the Old Testament.
8. Jesus, a genuine man, lived a perfect and sinless life on earth as a poor, despised, unattractive man of sorrows, not as a king, but as a servant to all, to reveal God the Father to sinful mankind.
9. Jesus, the Christ anointed by God with His Holy Spirit, offered Himself on the cross and satisfied God's righteous requirement, shedding His precious blood for our sins, accomplishing a perfect redemption. By this He enacted the New Covenant that all mankind may inherit its spiritual blessings.
10. Jesus Christ, after being three days in the heart of the earth, resurrected from the dead with a glorified body. In resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit to impart Himself into His believers to be their life and constitute them living members of His Body, the church.
11. After His resurrection, Christ ascended far above all the heavens. God gave Him the name above all names, made Him both Lord and Christ and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all.
12. After His ascension, Christ poured out the Spirit of God to baptize His believers into one Body for His move on the earth. From that day, the Spirit of God, who is also the Spirit of Christ, has been convicting the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment to bring sinners to repentance, to regenerate them with His life, to dwell in them for their growth in life, and to build them up to be the Body of Christ.
13. Christ will come back to execute judgment, take possession of the earth and establish His millennial kingdom.
14. At the consummation of the age all God's people will participate in the divine blessings of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth eternally.
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