CREATION
We believe that the Genesis account of creation is literal and is the accurate historical record of how all things came into being. We believe that the human race, the universe, planet earth, and all living things were created directly by God and not as the result of a process of evolution. The six days of creation were literal twenty-four hour days.
Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:7, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26, 27; 2:1-7,• Exodus 20:11; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 11:3.
SATAN
We believe that Satan is a literal being, created by God as a holy angel named Lucifer who enjoyed special honour in heaven. However, through his pride and ambition to become like God, he was removed from his honourable position and then he led a host of angels who joined in his rebellion and in his fall. We believe that he is now the prince of the power of the air and the unholy god of this world.
We hold him to be Romans 5:8; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:2; Acts 20:21; Ephesians 2:8-9; John John 3:5; Romans 10:17; Romans 5•.1-9,• Hebrews 10:17,• 1 John 1:9; Romans 4:5-8; Titus 3:5; John 3:3-5; John 10:28; Ephesians 1:5, 13; Colossians 1:14; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11,• Hebrews 10:10; John 5:24; 1 John 54; Colossians 3:8-12; Romans 6:13; 8:13; 1 Peter 1:23,• 1 John 3:2,• 1 Thessalonians 3•.13,• Philippians 3:20-21.
THE ETERNAL STATE
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the human race, the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. We believe that the souls of believers in Christ are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord where, in conscious blessing and happiness, they wait for the first resurrection when their spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord. We also believe that the souls of the unbelievers remain after death in conscious torment and misery until the second resurrection when, with their spirit, soul, and body reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne judgment and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting punishment and eternal separation from God Whom they rejected in life on earth.
We believe in a literal place called Heaven where God’s glorious presence is displayed, where the angels now dwell, and where believers shall ultimately dwell. Heaven is the place from which Christ descended to earth to become man and to which He ascended again. In heaven, He is making intercession for the saints, and preparing us a place to live eternally. In God’s perfect time, the Lord Jesus will descend from heaven to catch His children up to be with Him and from where He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
We believe in a literal Hell and the Lake of Fire which shall be the place of eternal punishment of Satan, fallen angels, and those who refuse to repent and believe upon Jesus Christ
Revelation 20; Acts 24:15; John 5•.28-29,• Luke 16•.19-31; 2 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17; 1 John 3•.2; Psalm 102•.19,• Ecclesiastes 5:2; Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 22:30; John 14:1-3,• 16:28; Acts 1:11; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 7•.25,• 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10,• Revelation 20:10, 15,• 21:8; 19:20,• Luke 16:26; Mark 9•.43-48.